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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002;123:735-741
© 2002 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery
Cardiopulmonary Support and Physiology (CSP) |
From the Departments of Anesthesiology,a Cardiovascular Surgery,b and Laboratory Analysis,c Deutsches Herzzentrum München, and Department of Anesthesiology,d Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Germany.
Received for publication May 29, 2001. Revisions requested June 22, 2001; revisions received July 9, 2001. Accepted for publication Aug 7, 2001. Address for reprints: Peter Tassani, MD, Department of Anesthesiology, Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Lazarettstr, 36, 80636 München, Germany (E-mail: tassani{at}dhm.mhn.de).
Objective: Operations coupled with cardiopulmonary bypass may provoke a systemic inflammatory response, and it has been suggested that this responses causes capillary leakage of proteins, edema formation, and even organ failure. However, capillary leak syndrome is mainly a clinical diagnosis and has not been verified as yet by actual demonstration of protein leakage from the circulation. We have therefore measured the disappearance of labeled plasma protein before and after cardiopulmonary bypass.
Methods: Sixteen patients scheduled for elective coronary artery bypass grafting were enrolled in a prospective controlled study. The cardiopulmonary bypass circuit was primed with crystalloids only. Tumor necrosis factor 
, interleukin 6, interleukin 8, anaphylatoxin C3a, and terminal complement complex C5b9 levels were determined before, during, and 3 hours after cardiopulmonary bypass. The transvascular escape rate of plasma protein from the intravascular compartment was assessed by measuring the disappearance of intravenously injected Evans blue dye before and during the third hour after cardiopulmonary bypass.
Results: A significant inflammatory response could be demonstrated by means of the 5 measured mediators after bypass. The maximal increase, as compared with the baseline value, was found for interleukin 6 (36-fold). The transvascular escape rate of Evans blue dye was similar before and after bypass (7.6 ± 0.6%/h vs 7.3 ± 0.6%/h).
Conclusions: The above data confirm the systemic inflammatory response induced by cardiopulmonary bypass. Contrary to expectations, the transvascular escape rate of Evans blue dye did not change when comparing values before and after bypass. The data do not support the concept of increased protein leakage in the exchange vessels after bypass. We were unable to demonstrate a capillary leak syndrome.
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