PubMed · 3197261
Myocardial depression in hyperdynamic endotoxemia.
Abstract
The presence of myocardial depression is difficult to assess in most animal models of septic shock caused by hypovolemia. We studied endotoxemia in fluid-resuscitated conscious sheep. They underwent chronic instrumentation with pulmonary artery, arterial, and left atrial catheters. After 1 week of recovery, 1.5 micrograms/kg of endotoxin (LPS) was administered intravenously over a period of 30 min. One group of nine sheep stayed on baseline fluids (2 ml/kg/h of Ringer's lactate), while a second group (n = 6) was resuscitated with 7 ml/kg/h Ringer's lactate solution over the 24-h study period. Both groups were compared with controls. Eight hours after LPS, left ventricular stroke work index was depressed in both groups. In the group resuscitated with 7 ml/kg Ringer's lactate this depression associated with a normal left atrial pressure and a constant peripheral resistance indicated a shift in the Starling work curve downward and to the right evidencing myocardial depression.
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H J Lubbesmeyer, J L Theissen, S Doty, R Kimura, L Traber, D N Herndon, D L Traber. 1988. Myocardial depression in hyperdynamic endotoxemia.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3197261/
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