PMID: 8940687Sep 1, 1996Paper

Surgical stress and organ dysfunction: liver

Nihon Geka Gakkai zasshi
T Nakatani, K Kobayashi

Abstract

Various kinds of neuroendocrine responses occur to an extensive surgical stress such as major operation and severe trauma. Studies of the details of this response have focused on many endocrine systems for decades. Hypersecretion of the hormones results in metabolic and cardiovascular changes, particularly in catabolic condition. As hepatic circulation is affected by catecholamines such as norepinephrine, hepatic mitochondrial redox status highly reduced due to tissue hypoxia and to shortage in the energy substrate, even in the cases without apparent blood loss. This results in hepatic energy crisis. Although most of the conventional hepatic biochemical parameters failed to reveal, the crisis is often unexpectedly severe if one estimate it by measuring arterial ketone body ratio (AKBR), which reflects hepatic mitochondrial redox status. The energy crisis results in the disturbance of excretion of conjugated bilirubin from hepatocyte to bile canaliculi that has to occur against bilirubin concentration gradient. This explains one of the mechanisms of posttraumatic as well as postoperative hyperbilirubinemia. Recently, numerous studies focused on various kinds of physiologically active substances, such as monokines, eicosanoids, a...Continue Reading

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