title: Perioperative myocardial injury in patients undergoing aortic valve replacement.
abstract: In cases of myocardial hypertrophy myocardial protection may be insufficient. In order to determine the factors responsible for myocardial injury we assessed myocardial injury in 54 patients undergoing isolated aortic valve replacement. In all cases hypothermic cardioplegic arrest was induced. At 13 different times we measured the serum level of creatine-kinase (CK), myocardial bound creatine-kinase (CKmb), lactic dehydrogenase (LDH), alpha-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase (alpha-HBDH), glutamic oxaloacetic transferase (GOT) and myoglobin. The mean duration of ischemia was 52.6 +/- 16.2 minutes and the mean time of extracorporeal circulation was 85.85 +/- 20.25 minutes. By performance of a multiple regression analysis a significant correlation between ischemia and LDH and alpha-HBDH was found; CK, GOT, LDH and alpha-HBDH correlated with duration of extracorporeal circulation. In none of the patients was a low cardiac output syndrome observed. From our results we conclude that in our study myocardial protection was sufficient and therefore the detrimental effects of extracorporeal circulation were the determining factors of enzyme release.
authors: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, FRG.
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Goerlach
authors: H
authors: H
authors: Temme
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Golf
authors: F
authors: F
authors: Dapper
authors: H H
authors: HH
authors: Scheld
authors: F W
authors: FW
authors: Hehrlein
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000601:surgery*; D006332:Cardiomegaly / Q000150:complications*; D004798:Enzymes / Q000097:blood; D005112:Extracorporeal Circulation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000601:surgery; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D007432:Intraoperative Period; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015428:Myocardial Reperfusion Injury / Q000097:blood / Q000209:etiology*; D009211:Myoglobin / Q000097:blood; D011184:Postoperative Period; D012044:Regression Analysis
chemical_list: D004798:Enzymes; D009211:Myoglobin