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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 92, 502-512, Copyright © 1986 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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Histochemical studies: inability of triphenyltetrazolium chloride nonstaining to define tissue necrosis

RJ Barnard, F Okamoto, GD Buckberg, F Sjostrand, ER Rosenkranz, J Vinten- Johansen, BS Allen and J Leaf

Triphenyltetrazolium chloride has been used to detect irreversibly damaged tissue after regional ischemia and reperfusion. We used this staining technique in our studies of myocardial ischemia and reperfusion and found that a transmural triphenyltetrazolium chloride nonstaining pattern is not an accurate predictor of myocardial necrosis: functional recovery occurs despite nonstaining. Mongrel dogs (n = 91) were anesthetized and made ischemic by ligation of the left anterior descending coronary artery. Regional myocardial function was assessed by means of ultrasonic crystals. Following 2, 4, or 6 hours of ischemia, the ligature was removed, and each heart was reperfused either in the working state or during total bypass with either normal blood or substrate-enriched blood cardioplegic solution of differing composition. The hearts were then removed and incubated in triphenyltetrazolium chloride at 37 degrees C for 20 to 40 minutes. The pattern of nonstaining in the area at risk varied from patchy subendocardial, to confluent subendocardial, to transmural and did not correlate with the recovery of regional contraction following ischemia. Mitochondrial ultrastructure was altered minimally in nonstained muscle, which regained contractile function after 6 hours of ischemia. Fifty-two of sixty-five hearts (80%) showing a transmural nonstaining pattern in the area of ultrasonic crystal placement recovered the capacity to shorten systolically immediately after controlled reperfusion during total vented bypass. These results show that the triphenyltetrazolium chloride staining method does not predict myocardial necrosis and that appropriate reperfusion following 2 to 6 hours of ischemia will result in recovery of myocardial shortening despite transmural nonstaining.

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