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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 99, 269-279, Copyright © 1990 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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Protection of the immature heart. Temperature-dependent beneficial or detrimental effects of multidose crystalloid cardioplegia in the neonatal rabbit heart

RD Kempsford and DJ Hearse
Cardiovascular Research, Rayne Institute, St. Thomas' Hospital, London, England.

There are conflicting reports of the detrimental or beneficial effects of hypothermic cardioplegia in the immature heart. We therefore investigated the temperature-dependence of myocardial protection and the ability of single-dose and multidose infusions of cardioplegic solution to protect the immature heart during hypothermic ischemia. Isolated, working hearts (n = 6 per group) from neonatal rabbits (aged 7 to 10 days) were perfused aerobically (37.0 degrees C) for 20 minutes before infusion (2 minutes) with either perfusion fluid (noncardioplegia control) or St. Thomas' Hospital cardioplegic solution and ischemic arrest (for 4, 6, and 18 hours) at various temperatures between 10.0 degrees and 30.0 degrees C. Hearts arrested with cardioplegic solution received either one preischemic infusion only (single-dose cardioplegia) or repeated infusions at intervals of 60 or 180 minutes (multidose cardioplegia). Ischemic arrest with single-dose cardioplegia for 4 hours at 10.0 degrees, 20.0 degrees, 22.5 degrees, 25.0 degrees, 27.5 degrees, and 30.0 degrees C resulted in 96.0% +/- 4.3%, 96.6 +/- 2.5%, 87.0% +/- 3.8%, 71.8% +/- 10.0% (p less than 0.05 versus 10.0 degrees C group), 35.1% +/- 10.3% (p less than 0.01 versus 10.0 degrees C group), and 3.0% +/- 1.9% (p less than 0.04 versus 10.0 degrees C group) recovery of preischemic cardiac output, respectively. With 6 hours of ischemia at 20.0 degrees C, single-dose cardioplegia significantly (p less than 0.01) increased the recovery of cardiac output from 20.9% +/- 13.1% (control) to 76.4% +/- 4.4%, whereas multidose cardioplegia (infusion every 60 minutes) further increased recovery to 97.8% +/- 3.8% (p less than 0.01 versus control and single- dose cardioplegia). In contrast, after 6 hours of ischemia at 10.0 degrees C, cardiac output recovered to 93.4% +/- 1.2% (control) and 92.3% +/- 3.1% (single-dose cardioplegia), whereas multidose cardioplegia reduced recovery to 76.9% +/- 2.2% (p less than 0.01 versus both groups). This effect was confirmed after 18 hours of ischemia at 10.0 degrees C; single-dose cardioplegia significantly increased the recovery of cardiac output from 24.5% +/- 10.9% (control) to 62.9% +/- 13.3% (p less than 0.05), whereas multidose cardioplegia reduced recovery to 0.8% +/- 0.4% (p less than 0.01 versus single-dose cardioplegia) and elevated coronary vascular resistance from 8.90 +/- 0.56 mm Hg.min/ml (control) to 47.83 +/- 9.85 mm Hg.min/ml (p less than 0.01). This effect was not reduced by lowering the infusion frequency (from every 60 to every 180 minutes).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

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