title: Prostaglandin E1 coronary venous retroperfusion in acute myocardial ischemia: effects on regional left ventricular function and infarct size.
abstract: Prostaglandin E1 was administered by means of coronary venous synchronized retroperfusion and the effectiveness of the combined (prostaglandin-retroperfusion) system was examined during acute myocardial ischemia in 10 closed chest anesthetized dogs. Such treatment was administered between 30 minutes and 3 hours after occlusion of the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery. An equivalent series of 10 dogs with arterial blood retroperfusion alone and 9 untreated dogs served as control subjects. Standardized two-dimensional echocardiographic measurements of global and regional left ventricular function were performed in five short-axis cross sections. The global low left ventricular section and its profoundly ischemic anterolateral region exhibited distinctly improved systolic fractional area changes as a result of the prostaglandin E1 retroperfusion treatment between 30 minutes and 3 hours after occlusion (22.9 +/- 1.5 to 41.2 +/- 4.0% and 1.8 +/- 3.6 to 29.4 +/- 5.6%, respectively). In contrast, further deterioration in function was noted during an untreated equivalent coronary occlusion period (16.3 +/- 2.7 to 10.0 +/- 3.3% and 12.6 +/- 6.1 to 4.1 +/- 6.9%). Although arterial blood retroperfusion alone provided distinct benefits in the ischemic region of a midpapillary echo section (from 13.4 +/- 3.9 to 32.1 +/- 10.4%, p less than 0.05), no improvements were observed in profoundly jeopardized segments at the low left ventricular level (5.6 +/- 6.0 to 0.9 +/- 5.7%). Triphenyltetrazolium chloride delineation of infarction revealed significant myocardial salvage with prostaglandin E1 retroperfusion as compared with findings in untreated control dogs (3.7% +/- 1.3% of the left ventricle versus 9.3 +/- 1.9%, p less than 0.05).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
mesh_terms: D000527:Alprostadil; D000818:Animals; D003326:Coronary Circulation / Q000187:drug effects; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy*; D004285:Dogs; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006321:Heart / Q000187:drug effects / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000187:drug effects / Q000503:physiopathology; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000187:drug effects; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D010477:Perfusion; D011458:Prostaglandins E / Q000008:administration & dosage*
chemical_list: D011458:Prostaglandins E; D000527:Alprostadil