title: Effect of phenytoin on smoke inhalation injury in sheep.
abstract: To determine whether the anti-inflammatory effects of phenytoin might reduce cardiopulmonary dysfunction we studied the effects of phenytoin treatment on acute lung injury induced by smoke inhalation. Twenty-one chronically instrumented sheep were observed for 24 h after smoke inhalation injury. Myocardial contractility was evaluated by left ventricular end-systolic pressure-diameter relationship (LVESPDR) with a pair of ultrasonic transducers and strain-gauge transducer. In the control group (n = 6), uninjured sheep were given a bolus of phenytoin (12.5 mg/kg). Smoke-insufflated sheep were divided into nontreatment (n = 7) and phenytoin (n = 8) groups. Phenytoin alone had no effects in uninjured sheep except an early rise in heart rate and LVESPDR. In the group given smoke without treatment, there was a significant increase in pulmonary artery pressure and pulmonary vascular resistance index and a decrease in cardiac index. Pulmonary vascular changes were attenuated by treatment with phenytoin. Pulmonary transvascular fluid flux was evaluated by using a lung lymph fistula. LVESPDR fell in the smoke group but not in the group given phenytoin. There was a marked increase in lung lymph flow with smoke inhalation but this phenomenon was not affected by phenytoin treatment. In conclusion, phenytoin treatment reduced early hemodynamic depression.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston 77555-0833, USA.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nishida
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kikuchi
authors.forename: D N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Herndon
authors.forename: L D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Traber
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Traber
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D005260:Female; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000187:drug effects; D009200:Myocardial Contraction / Q000187:drug effects; D010672:Phenytoin / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D011652:Pulmonary Circulation / Q000187:drug effects; D012756:Sheep; D015208:Smoke Inhalation Injury / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology
chemical_list: D010672:Phenytoin