Effects of central venous blood volume shifts on arterial baroreflex control of heart rate

1981 ◽  
Vol 241 (4) ◽  
pp. H571-H575 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. E. Billman ◽  
D. T. Dickey ◽  
K. K. Teoh ◽  
H. L. Stone

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of anesthesia, body position, and blood volume expansion on baroreflex control of heart rate. Five male rhesus monkeys (7.0-10.5 kg) were given bolus injection of 4.0 micrograms/kg phenylephrine during each of the following situations: awake sitting, anesthetized (AN) (10 mg/kg ketamine-HCl) sitting, AN recumbent, AN 90 degrees head down tilt, and AN 50% blood volume expansion with normal saline. beta-Receptor blockade was also performed on each treatment after anesthesia. Four additional animals were similarly treated after 20% blood volume expansion. R-R interval was plotted against systolic aortic pressure, and the slope was determined by linear regression. Baroreflex slope was significantly (P less than 0.05) reduced by 90 degrees head down tilt and 50% volume expansion both before and after beta-receptor blockade. A similar trend was seen after 20% volume expansion. These data are consistent with the thesis that baroreflex control of heart rate is reduced by central blood volume shifts.

1984 ◽  
Vol 246 (1) ◽  
pp. H74-H79 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. B. Guo ◽  
D. R. Richardson

The baroreflex control of hindquarter vascular resistance in response to a 30% blood volume expansion (BVE) was examined in constant-flow perfused hindlimbs of chloralose-urethan-anesthetized rats. Volume expansion initially increased both systemic arterial pressure (SAP) and central venous pressure (CVP) while decreasing hindquarter vascular resistance. After these initial changes, there was a parallel return of hindquarter-vascular resistance and CVP to pre-expansion levels, suggesting that cardiopulmonary afferents play a major role in the vascular resistance adjustments to volume expansion. This notion was supported in a separate set of experiments in which CVP was elevated selectively while SAP was held constant. This manipulation elicited a decrease in hindquarter vascular resistance, which was significantly attenuated following vagal cardiopulmonary denervation. The return of hindquarter vascular resistance following BVE also occurred in the presence of elevated SAP in rats with vagotomy and aortic nerve denervation, i.e., only the carotid sinus baroreflexes intact, but the time course was much faster compared with preparations with cardiopulmonary receptors intact. No response of hindquarter vascular resistance to BVE was observed in rats with both sinoaortic and cardiopulmonary baroreceptors denervated. These findings suggest that the return of hindquarter vascular resistance following BVE involves a gradual increase in sympathetic outflow to the hindquarters resulting from both a decrease in cardiopulmonary afferent activity and a rapid adaptation of arterial baroreflexes.


1979 ◽  
Vol 236 (4) ◽  
pp. H568-H576
Author(s):  
A. Ilebekk ◽  
M. M. Miller ◽  
F. Kiil

Linear relationships between stroke volume (SV) and heart rate (HR) were observed during right atrial pacing in open-chest dogs at control inotropy, during intravenous isoproterenol infusion and during blood volume expansion by saline infusion at HR exceeding 150 beats/min. The slope of these relationships remained constant during variations in inotropy, but rose during blood volume expansion. Myocardial chord lengths in the anterior left ventricular wall were continuously recored by ultrasonic technique to estimate left ventricular volume. When heart rate was increased, end-diastolic volume decreased more rapidly after than before blood volume expansion, explaining the increased slope of the SV/HR relationship. The end-diastolic volume and the SV/HR relationship were not influenced by changes in inotropy. After blood volume expansion by 57 +/- 13%, control end-diastolic volume was reestablished by increasing heart rate 84 +/- 20 beats/min. At identical end-diastolic volume, SV was equal at different HR. Thus, the effects on SV of changes in preload and inotropy are separable during right atrial pacing, and SV is independent of HR at constant preload and adrenergic stimulation.


2000 ◽  
Vol 279 (4) ◽  
pp. H1931-H1940 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Gabrielsen ◽  
Vibeke B. Sørensen ◽  
Bettina Pump ◽  
Søren Galatius ◽  
Regitze Videbæk ◽  
...  

The hypothesis was tested that cardiovascular and neuroendocrine (norepinephrine, renin, and vasopressin) responses to central blood volume expansion are blunted in compensated heart failure (HF). Nine HF patients [New York Heart Association class II–III, ejection fraction = 0.28 ± 0.02 (SE)] and 10 age-matched controls (ejection fraction = 0.68 ± 0.03) underwent 30 min of thermoneutral (34.7 ± 0.02°C) water immersion (WI) to the xiphoid process. WI increased ( P < 0.05) central venous pressure by 3.7 ± 0.6 and 3.2 ± 0.4 mmHg and stroke volume index by 12.2 ± 2.1 and 7.2 ± 2.1 ml · beat−1 · m−2 in controls and HF patients, respectively. During WI, systemic vascular resistance decreased ( P < 0.05) similarly by 365 ± 66 and 582 ± 227 dyn · s · cm−5 in controls and HF patients, respectively. Forearm subcutaneous vascular resistance decreased by 19 ± 7% ( P < 0.05) in controls but did not change in HF patients. Heart rate decreased less during WI in HF patients, whereas release of norepinephrine, renin, and vasopressin was suppressed similarly in the two groups. We suggest that reflex control of forearm vascular beds and heart rate is blunted in compensated HF but that baroreflex-mediated systemic vasodilatation and neuroendocrine responses to central blood volume expansion are preserved.


1996 ◽  
Vol 270 (5) ◽  
pp. H1718-H1725
Author(s):  
F. G. Smith ◽  
O. J. McWeeny ◽  
J. E. Robillard

To further investigate the maturation of the cardiopulmonary baroreflex, we measured the effects of a 45-min blood volume expansion to an increase in right atrial pressure of approximately 4 mmHg in chronically instrumented newborn (n = 17) and older lambs (n = 14). Measurements included various parameters of endocrine, cardiovascular, and renal function and concomitant recording of renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA). During blood volume expansion, RSNA was inhibited to a similar extent in newborns and older lambs when atrial pressures were increased by approximately 4 mmHg. A sympathoinhibition persisted in newborns but was only transient in older lambs. In newborn lambs, heart rate decreased in response to blood volume expansion, whereas heart rate remained constant after blood volume expansion in older lambs. The renal and endocrine responses to blood volume expansion were, however, similar in newborns and older lambs. These data provide evidence that when atrial pressures are matched, the renal and endocrine responses to blood volume expansion are similar, but there are differential cardiovascular and RSNA responses. Any reduced ability of the newborn kidney to excrete a volume load is therefore probably related to maturational differences in its distribution between the capacitance vessels and the heart.


1990 ◽  
Vol 69 (5) ◽  
pp. 1578-1586 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. I. Norton ◽  
M. D. Delp ◽  
M. T. Jones ◽  
C. Duan ◽  
D. R. Dengel ◽  
...  

To study the distribution of blood flow after blood volume expansion, seven miniature swine ran at high speed (17.6-20 km/h, estimated to require 115% of maximal O2 uptake) on a motor-driven treadmill on two occasions: once during normovolemia and once after an acute 15% blood volume expansion (homologous whole blood). O2 uptake, cardiac output, heart rate, mean arterial pressure, and distribution of blood flow (with radiolabeled microspheres) were measured at the same time during each of the exercise bouts. Maximal heart rate was identical between conditions (mean 266); mean arterial pressure was elevated during the hypovolemic exercise (149 +/- 5 vs. 137 +/- 6 mmHg). Although cardiac output was higher and arterial O2 saturation was maintained during the hypervolemic condition (10.5 +/- 0.7 vs. 9.3 +/- 0.6 l/min), O2 uptake was not different (1.74 +/- 0.08 vs. 1.74 +/- 0.09 l/min). Mean blood flows to cardiac (+12.9%), locomotory (+9.8%), and respiratory (+7.5%) muscles were all elevated during hypervolemic exercise, while visceral and brain blood flows were unchanged. Calculated resistances to flow in skeletal and cardiac muscle were not different between conditions. Under the experimental conditions of this study, O2 uptake in the miniature swine was limited at the level of the muscles during hypervolemic exercise. The results also indicate that neither intrinsic contractile properties of the heart nor coronary blood flow limits myocardial performance during normovolemic exercise, because both the pumping capacity of the heart and the coronary blood flow were elevated in the hypervolemic condition.


1974 ◽  
Vol 77 (1_Suppl) ◽  
pp. S6 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Raptis ◽  
H. Hirth-Schmidt ◽  
K. E. Schröder ◽  
E. F. Pfeiffer

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