title: Effects of milrinone on lung water content in dogs with acute pulmonary hypertension.
abstract: To evaluate the effects of milrinone (MIL) on hemodynamics and lung water content, we used 10 mongrel dogs with pulmonary hypertension (PH). To induce pulmonary hypertension, we administered two injections of glass beads stirred in saline to dogs. Mean pulmonary arterial pressure (PAP) and pulmonary vascular resistance significantly increased following induction. Milrinone, which inhibits cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase-(PDE) demonstrated pulmonary vasodilation, indicated a reduction in these two parameters. To clarify the drug mechanism, we measured lung water content as extravascular lung thermal volume (ETVL) using a thermo/sodium double-indicator dilution method. The induction of pulmonary hypertension produced a transient reduction in extravascular lung thermal volume. The parameter remained constant following milrinone administration, whereas the control showed a gradual increase. Of the 10 dogs, five were killed to measure gravimetrically the volume of lung water content as a comparison with extravascular lung thermal volume. We concluded that milrinone produced pulmonary vasodilation which induced a reduction in the transmural capillary pressure gradient according to Starling's hypothesis. This study suggests that the reduction in the transmural pressure gradient induced by milrinone may also prevent the re-elevation in extravascular lung thermal volume. Milrinone increases the cyclic AMP level in the endothelium and in the platelet which may affect either directly or indirectly the permeability of capillary endothelium.
authors.affiliation: Trauma and Critical Care Center, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tajimi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000818:Animals; D001834:Body Water / Q000187:drug effects; D002404:Catheterization; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D004285:Dogs; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000187:drug effects*; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008168:Lung / Q000187:drug effects*; D020105:Milrinone; D008954:Models, Biological; D010726:Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011659:Pulmonary Gas Exchange / Q000187:drug effects; D011728:Pyridones / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D010726:Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors; D011728:Pyridones; D020105:Milrinone