Abstract
Clinical trials have shown an increase in survival in patients treated with beta blockers after infarction. In addition, the majority of patients undergoing myocardial revascularization are also treated preoperatively with beta blockers. It is commonly thought that beta blockers exert their protective effect primarily by decreasing heart rate and subsequent myocardial work. The present study was designed to determine whether beta blockade has any primary protective metabolic effects on globally ischemic myocardium. Thirty-four anesthetized dogs underwent total myocardial ischemia at 37° C. High-energy nucleotide and lactate levels in left ventricular tissue samples were determined at control and at 15 minute intervals as well as at the onset of ischemic contracture in 24 dogs. Seventeen dogs were treated with propranolol before ischemia. The time to ischemic contracture in control dogs was 63.3 ± 1.4 minutes compared with 75.9 ± 2.2 minutes in the propranolol-treated group (p
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