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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 109, Issue 5 849-853, Copyright © 1995 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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The effects of cyanosis on myocardial blood flow, oxygen utilization, and lactate production in dogs

A. K. Pridjian, E. L. Bove and F. M. Lupinetti
Department of Surgery, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, USA.

To elucidate differences in myocardial blood flow and metabolism between cyanotic and normal hearts, a model of chronic cyanosis was created in five adult mongrel dogs by anastomosing the inferior vena cava to the left atrium. After 6 to 9 months, myocardial blood flow, the ratio of subendocardial to subepicardial flow, oxygen consumption, oxygen extraction ratio, and lactate consumption in these cyanotic dogs and five control dogs were determined under baseline conditions and during pharmacologic stress with isoproterenol (0.2 micrograms/kg/min). Radioactive microspheres were used to determine left and right ventricular blood flow rates, and arterial and coronary sinus differences in oxygen and lactate levels were measured. At baseline and during stress, oxygen consumption and oxygen extraction ratios were identical in control and cyanotic hearts. Total myocardial blood flow was increased with stress and did not differ between cyanotic and control hearts. Left ventricular muscle from cyanotic hearts did exhibit lower endocardial/epicardial blood flow ratios than those of control hearts at rest, and the relative subendocardial flow decreased further with stress. During isoproterenol infusion, myocardial lactate production, indicative of anaerobic metabolism, was evident in two of five cyanotic animals and none of the control dogs. The relative subendocardial ischemia and its further aggravation by stress in cyanotic hearts may contribute to the pathophysiologic basis of myocardial dysfunction in cyanotic heart disease.

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