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F Sogliani

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PubMed2000

Persistent but reversible coronary microvascular dysfunction after bypass grafting.

The effect of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) on absolute myocardial blood flow (MBF) has not been investigated previously. MBF (ml. min(-1). g(-1)) was measured at rest and during hyperemia (0.56 mg/kg iv dipyridamole) using H(2)(15)O and positron emission tomography in eight patients with three-vessel disease before surgery and 1 and 6 mo after full revascularization. Baseline MBF was 0.87 +/- 0.12 preoperatively and 1.04 +/- 0.14 and 0.95 +/- 0.13 at 1 and 6 mo after CABG, respectively (P < 0.05, 6 mo vs. preoperatively). Hyperemic MBF was 1.36 +/- 0.28 preoperatively and increased to 1.98 +/- 0.50 and 2.45 +/- 0.64 at 1 and 6 mo after CABG, respectively (P < 0.01, 6 mo vs. preoperatively). Coronary vasodilator reserve (hyperemic/baseline MBF) increased from 1.59 +/- 0.40 preoperatively to 1.93 +/- 0.13 and 2.57 +/- 0.49 at 1 and 6 mo, respectively (P < 0.05, 6 mo vs. preoperatively). Minimal (dipyridamole) coronary resistance (mmHg. min. g(-1). ml(-1)) fell progressively from 59.37 +/- 14.56 before surgery to a nadir of 35. 76 +/- 10.12 at 6 mo after CABG (P < 0.01 vs. preoperatively). The results of the present study confirm that CABG improves coronary vasodilator reserve progressively as a result of reduction in minimal coronary resistance. These data suggest persistent microvascular dysfunction that recovers slowly after surgery.

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PubMed1995

The influence of vascular pressure and different primes on the fluid balance of, and oxygen supply to, the patient during CABG.

Detrimental changes of blood and erythrocyte rheology, and fluid exchange between the vascular and interstitial spaces, which influence the rate that oxygen is supplied to the patient, occur during cardiac bypass surgery. Venous flow is subject to a pulsatile and uncertain variation, because the vena cava is more than 30 mmHg below atmospheric pressure. This occurs because the patient is about 1 m above the air-blood surface of the bypass reservoir. Before any reliable study of fluid exchange can be undertaken this effect must be controlled. It was then established that optimum oxygen exchange occurs when equilibration of the plasma oncotic pressure and the capillary hydrostatic pressure is achieved without alteration of the interstitial fluid volume. At the lower arterial blood pressures used during bypass, it is necessary to reduce the plasma oncotic pressure by using an appropriate volume of crystalloid prime.

Coronary Artery Bypass↗