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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 102, 856-866, Copyright © 1991 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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Immediate functional benefits after controlled reperfusion during surgical revascularization for acute coronary occlusion

F Beyersdorf, K Sarai, FD Maul, T Wendt and P Satter
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany.

This study tests the hypothesis that contractile dysfunction that often develops after acute coronary occlusion despite emergency revascularization can be avoided by careful control of the composition of the initial reperfusate and the conditions of the reperfusion. Between January 1987 and May 1989, 31 consecutive patients with acute coronary occlusion (90% resulting from percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty failures) were reperfused during emergency myocardial revascularization according to one of two different protocols. In 23 patients the reperfusate was normal blood given at systemic pressure ("uncontrolled reperfusion"); in eight patients the ischemic segment was reperfused during the first 20 minutes with a regional blood cardioplegic solution (substrate-enriched, hyperosmotic, hypocalcemic, alkalotic, diltiazem-containing) at 37 degrees C at a pressure of 50 mm Hg. Thereafter total bypass was prolonged for an additional 30 minutes before extracorporeal circulation was discontinued ("controlled reperfusion"). Assessment of regional contractility (echocardiography, radionuclide ventriculography), electrocardiographic evidence of myocardial infarction, release of creatine kinase and isoenzyme of creatine kinase, and hospital mortality was performed. Regional contractility was quantified with a scoring system from 0 (normokinesis) to 4 (dyskinesis). Data are expressed as mean +/- standard error of the mean. Both groups were well matched for age, sex, and the distribution of the occluded artery. In the controlled-reperfusion group there was a greater prevalence of previous infarctions (63% versus 43%), additional significant stenosis (1.3 +/- 0.2 versus 0.8 +/- 0.2), and cardiogenic shock (38% versus 17%) compared with the uncontrolled-reperfusion group. Furthermore, the interval between coronary occlusion and reperfusion was significantly longer in the controlled-reperfusion group (4.0 +/- 0.5 versus 2.3 +/- 0.3 hr; p less than 0.05). Regional contractility returned to normal in all patients treated by controlled reperfusion (wall motion score = 0.8 +/- 0.3, normokinesis = 0, slight hypokinesis = 1). In contrast, regional contractility remained severely depressed after uncontrolled reperfusion with normal blood (score 2.5 +/- 0.2; p less than 0.05), with only four of 23 patients with a score less than 2 (2 = severe hypokinesis). Postoperatively enzymes and electrocardiographic changes were similar in both groups. One patient died of mitral insufficiency in the controlled-reperfusion group, despite complete recovery of wall motion in the angioplasty-related artery. Conversely, the four of 23 deaths after uncontrolled reperfusion occurred in patients who sustained infarct in the area of the coronary occlusion (mortality 13% versus 17%). In conclusion, these preliminary clinical results indicate that immediate recovery of segmental contractility can be achieved after acute coronary occlusion if the initial reperfusion is controlled.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

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