title: Relationship between oxygen transport and oxygen uptake in patients with cirrhosis: effects of vasoactive drugs.
abstract: To elucidate the relationship between oxygen transport and uptake in cirrhosis, we studied the effects of three vasoactive drugs that change O2 transport. Systemic hemodynamics, blood gases and lactate concentration were measured in patients with alcoholic cirrhosis before and after intravenous dobutamine, propranolol and nitroglycerin. Nine patients received successively dobutamine and then propranolol. Ten patients received nitroglycerin. Three other patients without cirrhosis (controls) received dobutamine. In patients with cirrhosis, dobutamine infusion was accompanied by a significant increase in cardiac output (+21%), systemic O2 transport (+21%) and O2 uptake (+12%), whereas O2 extraction ratio and arterial lactate concentration did not change significantly. Propranolol administration was followed by a significant decrease in cardiac output (-24%) and systemic O2 transport (-25%) and a significant increase in O2 extraction ratio (+19%), whereas O2 uptake and arterial lactate concentration did not change. Nitroglycerin infusion was accompanied by a significant decrease in cardiac output (-21%), systemic O2 transport (-26%) and O2 uptake (-10%), whereas O2 extraction ratio (+18%) and arterial lactate concentration (+31%) significantly increased. In control patients, dobutamine infusion was accompanied by an increase in cardiac output and in systemic O2 transport and by a decrease in O2 extraction ratio, whereas O2 uptake was not modified. These results suggest that O2 uptake may be abnormally dependent on O2 transport in patients with cirrhosis.
authors.affiliation: Unité de Recherches de Physiopathologie Hépatique (INSERM U-24), Hôpital Beaujon, Clichy, France.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Moreau
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hadengue
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ozier
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sicot
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lebrec
mesh_terms: D001692:Biological Transport / Q000187:drug effects; D002302:Cardiac Output / Q000187:drug effects; D004280:Dobutamine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000187:drug effects; D006801:Humans; D007262:Infusions, Intravenous; D007275:Injections, Intravenous; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000378:metabolism*; D005996:Nitroglycerin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D010101:Oxygen Consumption / Q000187:drug effects*; D011433:Propranolol / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D004280:Dobutamine; D011433:Propranolol; D005996:Nitroglycerin