PMID: 3747586Sep 1, 1986Paper

Reperfusate composition: interaction of marked hyperglycemia and marked hyperosmolarity in allowing immediate contractile recovery after four hours of regional ischemia

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
F OkamotoJ Leaf

Abstract

This study tests the hypothesis that improved muscle salvage after prolonged ischemia (4 hours) occurs when the substrate-enriched blood cardioplegic solution is markedly hyperglycemic (greater than 400 mg/dl) and markedly hyperosmotic (greater than 400 mOsm). Thirty-five dogs underwent 4 hours of occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery and reperfusion during total vented bypass with substrate-enriched blood cardioplegic solution, in which the glucose concentration and osmolarity were varied in relation to one another. Spontaneous systolic shortening recovered consistently (31 +/- 6%) only when glucose was greater than 400 mg/dl and osmolarity was greater than 400 mOsm. The least recovery occurred (only one of six dogs recovering spontaneous shortening) when cardioplegic glucose was greater than 400 mg/dl and osmolarity was greater than 400 mOsm. Regional segments reperfused with our standard substrate-enriched blood cardioplegic solution had lower transmural flow rates following reperfusion (56 versus 87 ml/100 gm/min, p less than 0.05), markedly reduced mitochondrial State 3 and State 4 respiration in epicardial and endocardial muscle (p less than 0.05), and the most extensive histochemical evidence of damag...Continue Reading

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