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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 89, 386-399, Copyright © 1985 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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Acute right ventricular failure is caused by inadequate right ventricular hypothermia

AC Gonzalez, TA Brandon, RL Fortune, SF Casano, M Martin, DL Benneson, EJ Guilbeau and RL Fisk

The hypothesis of this study was that inadequate right ventricular hypothermia contributes to the right ventricular dysfunction occasionally observed after cardiac operations. Dogs were placed on cardiopulmonary bypass, and 60 minute periods of hypothermic myocardial ischemia were imposed. Left ventricular temperature was always maintained at 15 degrees C and right ventricular temperatures were maintained at 15 degrees C (Group I, n = 8), 25 degrees C (Group II, n = 8), and 35 degrees C (Group III, n = 8). These temperatures were produced by infusion of hypothermic crystalloid cardioplegic solution and appropriate topical cooling and heating of the left and right ventricles, respectively. Multiple indices of ventricular function were obtained 15, 30, 45, and 60 minutes after bypass and compared to prebypass control values. In all Group I animals (left ventricular temperature = 15 degrees C, right ventricular temperature = 15 degrees C), postischemic indices of right ventricular function were not different from control values (p = NS). In Group II (left ventricular temperature = 15 degrees C, right ventricular temperature = 25 degrees C), two animals died 30 and 45 minutes after bypass, respectively, of right ventricular failure. In the other six animals in Group II, all indices of right ventricular function were significantly reduced (p less than 0.05) except for right ventricular systolic pressure. In Group III (left ventricular temperature = 15 degrees C, right ventricular temperature = 35 degrees C), two animals could not be weaned from cardiopulmonary bypass because of right ventricular akinesia. Six animals were weaned from bypass, but two died 15 minutes, one died 30 minutes, and one 45 minutes after bypass. Two animals lived 60 minutes, but all indices of right ventricular function were decreased. Failure to maintain right ventricular temperatures below 25 degrees C during 1 hour of cardiac ischemia in the dog can result in fatal right ventricular failure.

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