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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000;120:12-19
© 2000 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

CARDIOPULMONARY SUPPORT AND PHYSIOLOGY

Extracorporeal circulation can induce hypotension by both blood-material contact and pump-induced platelet aggregation

From Laboratory for Physiology, Institute for Cardiovascular Research Vrije Universiteit (ICaR-VU), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Address for reprints: P. Borgdorff, PhD, Laboratory for Physiology, Vrije Universiteit, Van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands (E-mail: p.borgdorff.physiol{at}med.vu.nl ).

Objective: Use of extracorporeal systems in cardiopulmonary bypass and dialysis induces vascular reactions, which can lead to hypotension and lung edema.
Methods: To study the contribution of blood-material contact and use of a roller pump, as well as prevention of their adverse effects, we perfused a rat hind leg with a tube connecting a carotid and a femoral artery.
Results: Autoperfusion of an uncoated tube caused a fall of aortic pressure and femoral resistance to 66% ± 16% and 76% ± 15%, respectively, of their initial values within 2 hours, whereas in control animals without a shunt, these variables hardly changed (to 94% ± 2.8% and 99% ± 2.8%, respectively). Lung water content became significantly higher than that found in control animals (79.4% ± 1.50% versus 77.0% ± 1.67%). If we coated the tube with albumin, these changes were largely prevented. When the coated tube was placed in a roller pump, aortic pressure and femoral resistance immediately fell to 79% ± 17.2% and 63% ± 13.5%, respectively, whereas lung water content did not increase. The vasodilation was caused by platelet aggregation and could be prevented with aurintricarboxylic acid, which inhibits shear-induced platelet aggregation by blocking the binding of von Willebrand factor to platelet glycoprotein Ib receptors.
Conclusions: Extracorporeal circulation may induce hypotension and lung edema by means of blood-material contact. Hypotension can be prevented by coating the system with albumin but can still result from pump-induced platelet aggregation.

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