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Inhibition of kinin formation by a kallikrein inhibitor during extracorporeal circulation in open-heart surgery.

Involvement of the kinin system was studied in 58 patients during extracorporeal circulation in open heart surgery. At the onset of extracorporeal circulation, there was no increase of free kinin in blood and no reduction of plasma kininogen, when the latter was expressed as mug bradykinin/mg plasma protein. With the lapse of time, kinin in the blood increased significantly, and decrease of kininogen was also significant. The longer the circulation time, the greater the consumption of kininogen. The site of the kinin formation was presumed to be the heart-lung machine since the level of kinin increased slightly and kininogen decreased gradually in the blood leaving the machine, compared with those levels entering the machine. The difference in kininogen was significantly different from zero at termination of extracorporeal circulation. Administration of a kallikrein-trypsin inhibitor, trasylol (A. G. Bayer), infused into the heart-lung machine, prevented the decrease of kininogen. Reduction of the total peripheral resistance during this circulation was also prevented. The hemoconcentration, presumably the result of vascular permeability increase caused by increased kinin, was prevented by trasylol in cases in which extracorporeal circulation lasted over 60 minutes. Trasylol applied thus appears to be an effective counteragent for circulatory disturbances which occur during extracorporeal circulation.

Adolescent↗

[The extracorporeal circulation in the treatment of pulmonary diseases].

The extracorporeal circulation is seldom used in pulmonary surgery. In this paper, we present some clinical cases and discuss the different indications for extracorporeal circulation in pulmonary diseases. Pulmonary embolectomy and lung transplantation are the main indications for the use of heart-lung-machine. Less frequent indications are oxygen support during whole lung lavage in pulmonary alveolar proteinosis. Lung cancer surgery and other indications for extracorporeal circulation are also discussed.

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The influence of extracorporeal circulation and hemoseparation on red cell deformability and membrane proteins in coronary artery disease.

Extracorporeal circulation and hemoseparation may lead to coupled mechanical and chemical blood trauma and thus influence red cell deformability. Ten patients with coronary artery disease underwent coronary bypass. Patients' blood samples were drawn preoperatively, after extracorporeal circulation, and after hemoseparation. Ten healthy adults served as control subjects. Red blood cell deformability was determined by direct microscopic observation of red blood cells subjected to shear stresses of 1.2 to 13.3 Pa with a counter-rotating rheoscope. Red cell membrane proteins were separated by one-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate. At 1.2 Pa, preoperative red cell deformability was significantly greater in patients with coronary artery disease than in control subjects. Neither extracorporeal circulation nor hemoseparation changed red cell deformability significantly. Electrophoretic separation of membrane proteins failed to show any quantitative or qualitative differences between patients and control subjects. Moreover RBC membrane proteins of red blood cells in the patients were not altered as a result of extracorporeal circulation or hemoseparation. The preoperatively increased red cell deformability in the patients may be drug-induced. Our data suggest that the extracorporeal circulation and hemoseparation techniques used in this study do not lead to red blood cell damage.

Blood Transfusion, Autologous↗

Effects of blue-light-exposure on growth of extracorporeally circulated leukemic cells in rats with leukemia induced by 1-ethyl-1-nitrosourea.

To explore the possibility of using blue light for extracorporeal circulation therapy in patients with leukemia, the effects of blue light on cell growth in vitro and in extracorporeally circulated blood of rats with leukemia were evaluated. When HL60 cells circulated extracorporeally using a peristaltic pump were exposed to blue light for 5 h, the growth of the cells was found to be markedly suppressed. Then, the blood of rats with erythroblastic leukemia, induced by the administration of tap water containing l-ethyl-l-nitrosourea (ENU) for 9-16 weeks, was circulated extracorporeally and exposed to blue light for 3 h. Lymphocytes were separated from the peripheral blood immediately after the end of blue-light-exposure and incubated for 7 days. The growth of leukemic cells was found to be significantly suppressed following exposure to blue light, whereas the growth of normal lymphocytes was unaffected. These findings suggest that cancer cells may be more sensitive to blue light than normal cells.

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