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S Bongrani

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Myocardial lactic acid balance after left ventriculography.

In order to study the effects of contrast media on myocardial metabolism the percentage of lactic acid extraction during left ventricular angiography has been determined in 16 normal patients (Group I), and in 29 patients with coronary artery disease (Group II). In addition, the lactic acid uptake was evaluated after atrial pacing (in 10 patients of Group I and in 13 patients of Group II) and after aortography (in 6 patients of Group I and in 9 patients of Group II). Normal patients usually did not show a myocardial lactic acid production after left ventriculography while the patients with coronary artery disease showed a net lactic acid production in the coronary sinus, which was similar to that obtained after atrial pacing stimulation and after aortography. These results indicate that ventriculography can be a useful technique to assess the kinetics of lactic acid uptake or release into the coronary sinus in patients with coronary artery disease and, in this respect could be useful for studying myocardial metabolism in aortic valve disease and to assess the toxicity of different contrast media.

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Effect of ergometrine on contractile force of guinea-pig isolated heart: antagonism by cimetidine.

The action of ergometrine on contractile force of guinea-pig isolated heart was investigated and the effect of receptor antagonists on the inotropic effect of ergometrine, isoproterenol, dopamine and histamine was evaluated. Ergometrine was found to have a good dose-dependent inotropic effect and the antagonism of cimetidine toward this action is reported. Experiments carried out in hearts in which a massive depletion of mast-cells histamine was produced are in favour of a direct action of the drug on H2-receptors.

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Influence of contrast media osmolality on isolated rabbit heart performance.

A low osmolality contrast medium (Iopamidol) caused less cardiac disturbance on isolated rabbit heart than a high osmolality medium (Urografin). The same effects were induced by glucose solutions iso-osmolal with the two media. After perfusion with Propranolol (1 microgram/ml) and Cimetidine (1 microgram/ml) the observed effect was unaltered.

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[Creatine phosphokinase release from perfused cardiac muscle under hypoxic conditions. Effect of propranolol, verapamil, reserpine and deslanoside].

Experiments were undertaken to determine if some drugs (propranolol, reserpine, verapamil and deslanoside) have an effect on CPK release from hypoxic heart muscle. Hypoxia was induced in isolated Langerdorff perfused rabbit hearts by gassing the perfusate with 95% N2 + 5% CO2. Hypoxic induced damage of the rabbit heart muscle has been quantited in terms of the relase of the intracellular enzymes creatinephosphokinase (CPK) into the extracellular space. Propranolol was either added at the start of the hypoxic perfusion or the rabbit were pretreated with it. Verpamil, dl-propranolol and reserpine provided protection evidenced by a reduction of hypoxic induced CPK release, while lanatoside C and d-propranolol failed to prevent the hypoxic muscle from releasing CPK.

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[The efficacy of the angiographical method in the evaluation of left ventricular muscle mass in the dog (author's transl)].

In nine closed chest mongrel dogs 42 left ventricular cineangiographies for determination of left ventricular muscle mass were carried out. Buetterich's method was verified and a different procedure of calculation of myocardial wall thickens was proposed. By this method a better correlation line between calculated and weighed left muscle mass and a lower standard error of estimate is obtained.

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