Abstract
The integrity of coronary vascular endothelial vasodilator function during core cooling and rewarming was investigated in a pentobarbital-anesthetized open-chest dog model. Vasodilator response was assessed as the change from baseline blood flow by injecting the endothelial-dependent vasodilator acetylcholine (ACh) (1.0 microg) or the endothelial-independent vasodilator nitroglycerin (NTG) (50 microg) into the left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery. Change in blood flow was measured using a transit time ultrasonic volume flowmeter technique. During cooling and rewarming LAD blood flow was significantly decreased. After rewarming, aortic pressure was artificially elevated to reach control. This procedure restored heart work (LV-RPP, left ventricular rate pressure product) and coronary perfusion pressure, but LAD blood flow remained lowered. Ability to dilate the vascular bed supplied by LAD, after injections of ACh or NTG, was present both during cooling and rewarming. At 25 degrees C coronary blood flow (LAD) increased from 3 +/- 1 to 9 +/- 1 mL x min(-1) in response to both ACh and NTG. Posthypothermic blood flow increased from 7 +/- 1 to 19 +/- 2 and 20 +/- 3 mL x min(-1) in response to ACh and NTG, respectively. Measured as the percent change from baseline LAD blood flow, the response was not significantly different from the one obtained in prehypothermic hearts. In conclusion, coronary vasodilator function, both endothelium dependent and endothelium independent, is present but not maintained at the same level during cooling to 25 degrees C and rewarming. In spite of the deterioration of cardiac function, no selective defect in the endothelium-dependent response was detected, either during hypothermia or after rewarming.
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