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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 96, 626-633, Copyright © 1988 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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Effects of antegrade cardioplegic infusion with simultaneously controlled coronary sinus occlusion on preservation of regionally ischemic myocardium after acute coronary artery occlusion and reperfusion

SC Sun, ST Raza, SK Tam, R Laurence and LH Cohn
Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

This study was conducted to assess the protective effects of antegrade infusion of cardioplegic solution with simultaneously controlled coronary sinus occlusion on regionally ischemic myocardium after acute coronary occlusion and reperfusion. Twelve sheep were subjected to 1 hour of occlusion of the distal left anterior descending coronary artery. Sheep in group I (n = 6) were subjected only to infusion of potassium crystalloid cardioplegic solution into the aortic root, whereas in group II (n = 6) a stitch was snared around the proximal coronary sinus for its subsequent occlusion during antegrade infusions of cardioplegic solution. All animals were placed on cardiopulmonary bypass. Five hundred milliliters of cardioplegic solution at 4 degrees to 8 degrees C was administered in three divided doses during the total cross-clamp period of 30 minutes. The occlusion of the left anterior descending artery was then released, and the animals were weaned from bypass and studied for an additional 4 hours. Coronary sinus pressure, myocardial temperature, regional function assessed by pairs of ultrasonic crystals, global function assessed by rate of rise of left ventricular pressure and cardiac output, and the area at risk and area of necrosis were determined. The heart was excised at the end of the experiment and stained. Animals treated by the technique of antegrade infusion combined with coronary sinus occlusion had more homogeneous myocardial cooling during cardioplegic infusions and better recovery of the first derivative of left ventricular pressure and regional segment shortening at 90 and 270 minutes of reperfusion than those treated with antegrade infusion alone (p less than 0.01 and p less than 0.05, respectively). The group treated by antegrade infusion of cardioplegic solution combined with coronary sinus occlusion had an area of necrosis/area at risk ratio of 40.5% +/- 1.2%; the antegrade infusion group, 58.3% +/- 4.1% (p less than 0.01). These data suggest that antegrade infusion combined with coronary sinus occlusion may be an improved method of global and regional myocardial protection in the presence of an occluded coronary artery.

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