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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996;111:359-366
© 1996 Mosby, Inc.

SURGERY FOR CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE

DEPRESSION OF CARDIAC FUNCTION AFTER DEEP HYPOTHERMIC CIRCULATORY ARREST IN DEEPLY ANESTHETIZED NEONATAL LAMBS

Winston-Salem, N.C.

Received for publication March 7, 1995. Accepted for publication May 18, 1995. Address for reprints: Harm Velvis, MD, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Cardiology, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Medical Center Blvd., Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1081.

Abstract

Cardiac dysfunction is common after neonatal cardiac operations. Previous in vivo studies in neonatal animal models however, have failed to demonstrate decreased left ventricular function after ischemia and reperfusion. Cardiac dysfunction may have been masked in these studies by increased endogenous catecholamine levels associated with the use of light halothane anesthesia. Currently, neonatal cardiac operations are often performed with deep opiate anesthesia, which suppresses catecholamine surges and may affect functional recovery. We therefore examined the recovery of left ventricular function after ischemia and reperfusion in neonatal lambs anesthetized with high-dose fentanyl citrate (450µg/kg administered intravenously). Seven intact neonatal lambs with open-chest preparation were instrumented with left atrial and left ventricular pressure transducers, left ventricular dimension crystals, and a flow transducer. The lambs were cooled (<18º C) on cardiopulmonary bypass (22 ± 6 minutes), exposed to deep hypothermic circulatory arrest (46 ± 1 minutes), and rewarmed on cardiopulmonary bypass (30 ± 10 minutes). Catecholamine levels and indexes of left ventricular function were determined before (baseline) and 30, 60, 120, 180, and 240 minutes after termination of cardiopulmonary bypass. Levels of epinephrine, norepinephrine, and dopamine were unchanged from baseline values. Left ventricular contractility (slope of end-systolic pressure-volume relationship) was depressed from baseline value (31.7 ± 9.3 mm Hg/ml) at 30 minutes (15.7 ± 6.4 mm Hg/ml) and 240 minutes (22.7 ± 6.4 mm Hg/ml) but unchanged between 60 and 180 minutes. Left ventricular relaxation (time constant of isovolumic relaxation) was prolonged from baseline value (19.0 ± 3.0 msec) at 30 minutes (31.4 ± 10.0 msec) and 240 minutes (22.1 ± 2.8 msec) but unchanged between 60 and 180 minutes. Afterload (left ventricular end-systolic meridional wall stress) was decreased at 30, 60, and 240 minutes. Indexes of global cardiac function (cardiac output, stroke volume), preload (end-diastolic volume), and left ventricular compliance (elastic constant of end-diastolic pressure-volume relationship) were unchanged from baseline values. In deeply anesthetized neonatal lambs exposed to ischemia and reperfusion, left ventricular contractility, relaxation, and afterload are markedly but transiently depressed early after reperfusion and mildly depressed late after reperfusion. (J THORACCARDIOVASCSURG1996;111:359-66)

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