PMID: 8976032Jan 1, 1996Paper

Normotherm continuous blood cardioplegia for 4 hours in an in vivo pig model

Scandinavian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
O IrtunD Sørlie

Abstract

Warm, continuous blood cardioplegia should theoretically maintain cardiac arrest for hours without ischaemic or hypothermic injury. In the absence of in vivo studies of myocardial metabolism and ultrastructural and/or functional preservation during and after more than 2 hours of cardiac arrest and after weaning from bypass, we devised a porcine model with a closed extracorporeal circuit for the heart alone. Normothermic blood cardioplegia was administered antegrade and recirculated for 2 or 4 hours, each in seven pigs. After aortic declamping all were successfully weaned from bypass and reperfused for 1 hour. Thereafter we found no significant intergroup difference in haemodynamic characteristics (average fall in mean arterial pressure 31.7 +/- 3.2% and 26.9 +/- 2.6%) or blood analyses. After 5 and 60 minutes of cardiac arrest there was minimal lactate production (5.7 +/- 10.7 and 0.5 +/- 10.5 nmol/l, respectively), whereas in the remainder of the arrest period there was lactate uptake, indicating aerobic heart metabolism. Our setup avoids systemic hyperkalaemia, gives good cardiac protection with no deterioration between 2 and 4 hours and is well suited for studies on the quiescent, blood-perfused oxygenated heart.

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Sep 1, 1996·The Annals of Thoracic Surgery·T S LarsenD Sørlie
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