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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 99, 510-517, Copyright © 1990 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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L-aspartate improves the functional recovery of explanted hearts stored in St. Thomas' Hospital cardioplegic solution at 4 degrees C

YS Choong and JB Gavin
Department of Pathology, University of Auckland School of Medicine, New Zealand.

Explanted rat hearts were subjected to cardioplegic arrest by 3 minutes' perfusion with oxygenated St. Thomas' Hospital solution no. 2 and then were stored by immersion in the same solution at 4 degrees C. Prearrest and postischemic left ventricular functions were compared by means of an isolated working heart apparatus. Hearts (n = 8 per group) arrested and stored for up to 8 hours all resumed the spontaneous rhythm of contraction during reperfusion for 30 minutes at 37 degrees C. There was good recovery of aortic flow rate (105% +/- 3%) against a pressure of 100 cm H2O, of heart rate (102% +/- 2%), and of aortic pressure (86% +/- 5% of prearrest values). Hearts stored for 10 and 20 hours showed poor or no postischemic recovery of cardiac pump function (aortic flow, 16% +/- 11% and 0%, respectively). Enrichment of St. Thomas' Hospital solution with L-glutamate (20 mmol/L) also failed to improve functional recovery of hearts subjected to 10 hours of storage, but hearts treated with St. Thomas' Hospital solution containing L- aspartate (20 mmol/L) or L-aspartate plus L-glutamate (20 mmol/L each) reestablished aortic flow rates of 99% +/- 5% and 93% +/- 4%, respectively. These results indicate that the addition of L-aspartate to St. Thomas' Hospital solution improves the functional recovery and extends the safe preservation of explanted hearts stored at 4 degrees C.

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