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  • Title: Effects of perfusion pressure on myocardial performance, metabolism, wall thickness, and compliance: comparison of the beating and fibrillating heart.
    Author: Spadaro J, Bing OH, Gaasch WH, Laraia P, Franklin A, Weintraub RM.
    Journal: J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg; 1982 Sep; 84(3):398-405. PubMed ID: 7109670.
    Abstract:
    The effects of brief periods of graded reductions in perfusion pressure on normally beating and fibrillating hearts were examined. Mechanical and metabolic parameters were studied in the isolated, isovolumic (balloon in left ventricle), blood-perfused dog heart preparation. Experiments were carried out at perfusion pressures of 100, 75, 50, and 25 mm Hg, and comparisons of performance were made at the same ventricular volumes in the beating and fibrillating heart. A fall in perfusion pressure significantly decreased systolic performance in the beating heart. Diastolic pressure-volume relations were not altered by changes in perfusion pressure in the beating heart, but the fibrillating heart became significantly more compliant as perfusion pressure declined. Coronary blood flow and myocardial oxygen consumption were consistently higher during fibrillation than during sinus rhythm, and both parameters declined significantly at decreasing perfusion pressures. The fibrillating heart produced lactate at a perfusion pressure below 65 mm Hg, while the beating heart produced lactate at a perfusion pressure below 35 mm Hg. These studies demonstrate that brief periods of relatively modest decreases in perfusion pressure during ventricular fibrillation alter myocardial energy demand-supply relationships to result in ischemia of the fibrillating heart.
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