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Acute isovolemic hemodilution and blood transfusion. Effects on regional function and metabolism in myocardium with compromised coronary blood flow.
The use of isovolemic hemodilution to prevent adverse side effects of homologous blood transfusions has increased. The lowest level of hemoglobin that can be tolerated without regional myocardial dysfunction, however, had not been precisely defined for left ventricular myocardium with compromised coronary blood flow. This level was determined in our study in 19 dogs with critical stenosis of the left anterior descending coronary artery during graded isovolemic hemodilution. Regional function was assessed by sonomicrometry in the territory supplied by the left anterior descending coronary artery, as well as in two noncompromised left ventricular areas; oxygen extraction and consumption in the left anterior descending coronary artery region were assessed by analysis of anterior descending coronary venous oxygen saturation. The median lowest level of hemoglobin tolerated without contractile dysfunction of the territory supplied by the left anterior descending artery was 7.5 gm/dl, with lower and upper quartiles of 6 and 9 gm/dl. In addition to a marked increase in cardiac output and transstenotic left anterior descending flow, global cardiac and regional myocardial functions were unchanged at a hemoglobin level of 7.5 gm/dl, as compared with a control level of hemoglobin of 12.0 +/- 0.4 gm/dl. At a mean level of hemoglobin of 6.0 +/- 0.4 gm/dl, marked contractile dysfunction developed in the left anterior descending region: Systolic shortening decreased from 24.2% +/- 2.1% to 17.9% +/- 1.9% (p < 0.01); postsystolic shortening increased from 4.0% +/- 3.0% to 12.2% +/- 3.8% (p < 0.01); and in the left anterior descending region, oxygen consumption decreased. The increase of arterial level of hemoglobin by only 1.9 +/- 0.2 gm/dl restored contractile function in the left anterior descending region, regional oxygen consumption, and oxygen extraction across the left anterior descending region. Moderate isovolemic hemodilution is relatively well tolerated in left ventricular myocardium with compromised coronary blood flow, and hemodilution regional contractile dysfunction induced by hemodilution is reversible by minimal blood transfusion.
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