title: The effect of hypertonic saline dextran solutions on hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction in anaesthetised piglets.
abstract: Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction (HPV) is a regulatory mechanism by which blood is diverted from poorly ventilated to better ventilated areas of the lung. The aim of the present study was to assess the extent to which hypertonic saline dextran and dextran solutions modify the magnitude of HPV during isovolumic haemodilution in intact acutely instrumented piglets. Eighteen large white piglets were anesthetised and assigned to two groups. Mean pulmonary arterial pressure (PAP) and cardiac output (Q), systemic arterial pressure and left arterial pressure (LAP) were measured. A decrease in Q was obtained by reducing venous return. This enabled measurement of transpulmonary pressures (mean PAP minus LAP) at four levels of Q in hyperoxia (inspiratory oxygen fraction (FiO2)=0.4) then in hypoxia (Fi,O2=0.1) in the two groups before blood soustraction (10 mL x kg(-1)) and after loading with sodium chloride (NaCl) 7.5% and dextran 6% or with dextran 6% alone. Dextran alone led to a decrease in mean PAP-LAP/Q values, and NaCl with dextran was associated with a significant shift of mean PAP-LAP/Q plots to higher pressures in hypoxia. Hypertonic saline dextran solution, as replacement fluid in isovolaemic haemodilution increased the magnitude of hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction, whereas dextran solution reduced it.
authors.affiliation: Dépt d'Anesthésie-Réanimation Adulte, Groupe Hospitalier de La Timone, Marseille, France. m-bel@club-internet.fr
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bellezza
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kerbaul
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Roussel
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Imbert
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Guidon
mesh_terms: D000769:Anesthesia, Inhalation; D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology; D002302:Cardiac Output / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D003911:Dextrans / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D005260:Female; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D011336:Probability; D011652:Pulmonary Circulation / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D011659:Pulmonary Gas Exchange; D011897:Random Allocation; D012016:Reference Values; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012965:Sodium Chloride / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013552:Swine; D014655:Vascular Resistance / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D014661:Vasoconstriction / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D003911:Dextrans; C104375:hypertonic saline-dextran solution; D012965:Sodium Chloride