Reactive hyperemia following one-beat coronary occlusions in the awake dog

1986 ◽  
Vol 250 (3) ◽  
pp. H474-H481
Author(s):  
R. J. Bache ◽  
D. S. Hess

This study was performed to examine the effect of alterations of cardiac activity during brief coronary artery occlusions on the subsequent reactive hyperemic response. Reactive hyperemia following coronary occlusions equal in duration to one cardiac cycle were examined in 12 chronically instrumented awake dogs while heart rate was maintained constant by cardiac pacing. During continuous pacing, one-beat coronary occlusions resulted in reactive hyperemia with excess flow equal to 220 +/- 23% blood flow debt repayment. When coronary occlusions of identical duration were performed while a single cycle of pacing was omitted during the interval of occlusion, the subsequent reactive hyperemia was decreased. Conversely, when coronary occlusion was produced during the first potentiated beat following a single cycle of paired ventricular stimulation, the reactive hyperemia was increased. Since, in the absence of coronary occlusion, omitting a single paced beat caused a transient decrease in coronary flow, while a single cycle of paired ventricular stimulation caused a brief increase in coronary flow, the reactive hyperemic responses were corrected for these perturbations in flow. Despite these corrections, the influence of alterations of myocardial activity during the interval of occlusion persisted, with the decreased reactive hyperemia when occlusion occurred during an omitted beat and increased hyperemia when occlusion was performed during a potentiated beat. These data indicate substantial coupling between myocardial activity during coronary occlusions as brief as one cardiac cycle in duration and the subsequent reactive hyperemic response.

1985 ◽  
Vol 248 (6) ◽  
pp. H812-H817
Author(s):  
D. Saito ◽  
T. Hyodo ◽  
K. Takeda ◽  
Y. Abe ◽  
H. Tani ◽  
...  

Adenosine is a prime candidate for the role of mediator between myocardial metabolic state and coronary blood flow. However, there are few reports concerning the direct effects of exogenously added adenosine on coronary autoregulation. The present investigation in the open-chest dog studied the effects of a threshold dose of intracoronary adenosine infusion on reactive hyperemia following brief coronary occlusions. The infused dose did not increase nonocclusive flow by greater than 10%. Adenosine enhanced total hyperemic flow at all occlusions tested (5, 10, 15, 20, and 30 s). Aminophylline pretreatment reduced reactive hyperemia below the control level even in the presence of an intracoronary infusion of adenosine. Adenosine injected into the left atrium and intracoronarily infused papaverine did not affect hyperemic response to 5- and 15-s coronary occlusions. The results suggest that a minimum dose of exogenously added adenosine enhances myocardial reactive hyperemia, possibly by potentiating the effects of endogenous adenosine released during ischemia.


1989 ◽  
Vol 256 (5) ◽  
pp. H1303-H1310
Author(s):  
R. W. Jeremy ◽  
L. Stahl ◽  
M. Gillinov ◽  
M. Litt ◽  
T. R. Aversano ◽  
...  

Microvascular obstruction and persistent focal ischemia have been suggested as a possible cause of myocardial dysfunction (stunning) after brief coronary occlusion. Microvascular occlusion should result in a reduction in maximal coronary flow reserve, although resting transmural coronary flow may be maintained by release of local vasodilators, such as adenosine. To test the microvascular occlusion hypothesis, coronary flow reserve was measured in 14 anesthetized dogs, before and after myocardial stunning produced by 10 min of ischemia. Intracoronary adenosine infusion (5,900 microM/min) increased coronary flow to the same degree in normal [195 +/- 20 (SE) ml/min] and stunned (212 +/- 23 ml/min) myocardium. Peak hyperemic flow after 100 s of coronary occlusion was also similar in normal (205 +/- 25 ml/min) and stunned (218 +/- 23 ml/min) myocardium. The adenosine antagonist 8-phenyltheophylline (5 mg/kg) reduced the flow response to exogenous adenosine, but neither resting coronary flow nor peak hyperemic flow in stunned myocardium was altered. In stunned myocardium, myocardial shortening at rest (0.2 +/- 2.0%) increased during reactive hyperemia (to 13.8 +/- 2.5%, P less than 0.01), but shortening promptly returned to basal levels after each hyperemia. These findings indicate that fixed microvascular occlusion is unlikely to be an important factor in the pathogenesis of stunned myocardium and that local adenosine release does not appear to have a compensatory role in coronary vasoregulation in stunned myocardium.


1991 ◽  
Vol 261 (3) ◽  
pp. H892-H900 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. G. Schwartz ◽  
S. Schaefer ◽  
S. D. Trocha ◽  
S. Steinman ◽  
J. Gober ◽  
...  

This study determined whether the rapidity of myocardial metabolic and contractile recovery after brief coronary occlusion depends upon the intensity of reactive hyperemia. We also tested the hypothesis that coronary flow rate modulates contractility after brief myocardial ischemia, independent of changes in phosphorus metabolites. Eight open-chest pigs were studied with phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy with 14 s time resolution. After a 29-s anterior descending coronary occlusion, peak Doppler coronary flow velocity was alternately unrestricted (normal hyperemia, 443 +/- 40% of control) or limited to 159 +/- 9% of control. During 29 s coronary occlusion, phosphocreatine-to-inorganic phosphate ratio (PCr/Pi) and systolic segment shortening in the ischemic region fell to 28 +/- 4 and 7 +/- 7% of control, respectively. With normal hyperemia, PCr/Pi and segment shortening recovered within 29 s. With blunted hyperemia, recovery of both parameters was delayed an additional 29-43 s, associated with reduced subendocardial blood flow (measured with radioactive microspheres) and persistent intracellular acidosis. However, the relationship between segment shortening and PCr/Pi was unaffected by the intensity of reactive hyperemia. Thus blunted reactive hyperemia significantly delays metabolic and contractile recovery from brief ischemia, probably via transient maldistribution of transmural perfusion. However, coronary blood flow rate does not independently modulate contractility after brief reversible ischemia.


SLEEP ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. A28-A28
Author(s):  
LaTroy Robinson ◽  
Saurabh Thosar ◽  
Alicia Stewart ◽  
Noal Clemons ◽  
Daniel Chess ◽  
...  

Abstract Introduction In the US cannabis is recreationally legal in 15 states and medically legal in 34 states. Preclinical studies suggest beneficial effects of cannabis on the cardiovascular system (e.g., vasorelaxation). Yet, acute cases of hospitalization after cannabis consumption indicate potential adverse cardiac effects. Vascular endothelial function is a marker of cardiovascular disease and is measured as a change in resting brachial artery diameter (flow-mediated dilation, FMD) during reactive hyperemia. Both resting diameter (positively) and FMD response (negatively) are associated with cardiovascular risk. Resting diameter likely depends on long-term structural changes, and FMD response mostly depends on nitric oxide. Reactive hyperemia is more complex and depends on numerous variables, including adenosine and prostaglandins. FMD is attenuated in the morning when the frequency of adverse cardiovascular events peaks. To begin to understand the effects of chronic cannabis use on the cardiovascular system, in this pilot study, we compared morning measurements of vascular endothelial function, blood pressure, and heart rate between chronic cannabis users and controls while controlling for prior nighttime sleep opportunities. Methods Participants, cannabis non-users (n=5) and users (n=4), 44% female, age 25.4 ± 3.6 years - no demographic differences between groups, kept a consistent 2-week sleep schedule at home followed by an 8h sleep opportunity at their habitual time in the laboratory. Upon-wakening, we measured resting blood pressure, heart rate, baseline diameter, hyperemic response, and FMD. Statistical differences between groups were calculated using a two-tailed t-test. Results Systolic and diastolic blood pressures (p=0.13 and 0.26 respectively), heart rate (p=0.97), and FMD response (p=0.99) did not differ between groups. However, chronic cannabis users had a significantly higher baseline brachial artery diameter (mean difference: 1.04 mm ± 0.26, p=0.005), and lower hyperemic response (mean difference: -7944 iu/s ± 2538, p=0.02) compared to non-users. Conclusion These preliminary findings suggest that chronic cannabis consumption may be associated with adverse structural and functional changes in the vasculature of otherwise healthy young adults. Based on these initial observations, cannabis may act on the cardiovascular system via non-nitric oxide mechanisms. However, it is necessary to increase our sample size to test the robustness of these findings. Support (if any) KL2TR002370, AASM


1965 ◽  
Vol 209 (4) ◽  
pp. 680-688 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia R. Rayford ◽  
Edward M. Khouri ◽  
Donald E. Gregg

The effect of excitement on phasic aortic pressure and flow, phasic left coronary flow, and myocardial metabolism has been studied in dogs 1–8 weeks after implantation of appropriate flowmeters and other devices. The rapid increase in heart rate and mild increase in blood pressure in the first few seconds tend to maintain coronary flow per minute despite a decrease in stroke cardiac output and coronary flow throughout the cardiac cycle. The main response is a delayed rise in coronary flow per minute resulting from further elevation of heart rate and blood pressure, a moderate increase in stroke cardiac output and a sizeable increase in stroke coronary flow, the latter being divided fairly evenly between systole and diastole. From 60 to 90% of the increase in mean coronary flow arises from the increase in stroke coronary flow, and the remainder from the increased number of heartbeats per minute. Some of the possible mechanisms concerned are discussed.


1965 ◽  
Vol 208 (2) ◽  
pp. 224-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ray A. Olsson ◽  
Donald E. Gregg

Studies of myocardial reactive hyperemia in dogs 5–24 days after the implantation of electromagnetic flowmeters on coronary artery branches reveal that the duration of occlusion and the control flow rate are independent determinants of the volume of reactive hyperemia flow. Flow debt is almost always overpaid, the average figure being 500 ± 200%. Phasic coronary flow curves show an increase in both systolic and diastolic flow during reactive hyperemia, the increase in systolic flow being due in part to decreased myocardial contractility. Myocardial reactive hyperemia is thought to be due to the accumulation of vasodilator metabolites during the period of coronary occlusion.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paweł Motyka ◽  
Martin Grund ◽  
Norman Forschack ◽  
Esra Al ◽  
Arno Villringer ◽  
...  

AbstractFluctuations in the heart’s activity can modulate the access of external stimuli to consciousness. The link between perceptual awareness and cardiac signals has been investigated mainly in the visual and auditory domain. We here investigated whether the phase of the cardiac cycle and the pre-stimulus heart rate influence conscious somatosensory perception. We also tested how conscious detection of somatosensory stimuli affects the heart rate. Electrocardiograms (ECG) of 33 healthy volunteers were recorded while applying near-threshold electrical pulses at a fixed intensity to the left index finger. Conscious detection was not uniformly distributed across the cardiac cycle but significantly higher in diastole than in systole. We found no evidence that the heart rate before a stimulus influenced its detection but hits (correctly detected somatosensory stimuli) led to a more pronounced cardiac deceleration than misses. Our findings demonstrate interactions between cardiac activity and conscious somatosensory perception, which highlights the importance of internal bodily states for sensory processing beyond the auditory and visual domain.Impact StatementIt is highly debated to what extent cardiac activity modulates the access of external stimuli to consciousness. The evidence is inconsistent across sensory modalities and previous research focused at specific intervals within the cardiac cycle. Here, we examined the perception of near-threshold electrical pulses across the entire cardiac cycle. Our results show that conscious somatosensory perception is enhanced during the late phase of the cardiac cycle (at diastole) and associated with a more pronounced cardiac deceleration (as compared to non-detected stimuli). This strengthens the evidence that the physiological state of the body influences how we perceive the world.


1992 ◽  
Vol 262 (4) ◽  
pp. H955-H960 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. C. Lee ◽  
R. T. Mallet ◽  
Y. Shizukuda ◽  
A. G. Williams ◽  
H. F. Downey

The purpose of this study was twofold: 1) to verify a report that a suspension of 8-phenyltheophylline (8-PT) completely abolished hypoxia-induced coronary vasodilation [H. M. Wei, Y. H. Kang, and G. F. Merrill. Am. J. Physiol. 257 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 26): H1043-H1048, 1989] and 2) to determine the effect of dissolved 8-PT on hypoxic hyperemia. The left anterior descending coronary artery of anesthetized dogs was cannulated and perfused at either constant flow or constant pressure. An 8-PT suspension (40 micrograms.kg-1.min-1) produced a twofold elevation of coronary perfusion pressure at constant flow, a 97% decrease in coronary flow at constant pressure, and regional akinesia in both conditions. The coronary vasculature was unresponsive to 60-s coronary occlusion, exogenous adenosine, and hypoxia after infusion of the 8-PT suspension. These findings are consistent with obstruction of the coronary microvasculature by the 8-PT suspension. An 8-PT solution (40 micrograms.kg-1.min-1) produced 95 +/- 3% (P less than 0.001, n = 6) attenuation of exogenous adenosine-induced vasodilation at constant pressure, a 28 +/- 5% (P less than 0.01, n = 6) attenuation of reactive hyperemia, and a 24 +/- 6% (P less than 0.05, n = 6) decrease in hypoxia-induced vasodilation. An 8-PT solution had no effect on systolic segment length shortening and myocardial oxygen consumption. We conclude that 8-PT, when in solution, attenuates but does not abolish the coronary vasodilatory response to hypoxia. Hence, adenosine appears to contribute to hypoxia-induced vasodilation but is not uniquely responsible for the hyperemic response.


Author(s):  
Алексей Дмитриевич Акишин ◽  
Иван Павлович Семчук ◽  
Александр Петрович Николаев

Постоянно растущий интерес к разработке новых неинвазивных и безманжетных методов измерения параметров сердечной деятельности, использование которых давало бы возможность непрерывного и удаленного контроля сердечно-сосудистой системы, обуславливает актуальность данной работы. В многочисленных публикациях продолжаются обсуждения преимуществ и недостатков различных методов ранней диагностики сердечно-сосудистых заболеваний. Однако артефакты движения являются сильной помехой, мешающей точной оценке показателей функционирования сердечно-сосудистой системы. Одним из перспективных методов контроля является метод оценки физиологических параметров с использованием фотоплетизмографии. Данная статья посвящена разработке устройства для фотоплетизмографических исследований и алгоритмических методов обработки регистрируемых сигналов для обеспечения мониторинга сердечного ритма с заданной точностью. В работе используются технологии цифровой адаптивной фильтрации полученных сигналов для мониторинга сердечного ритма в условиях внешних механических и электрических помеховых воздействий, ухудшающих точностные характеристики системы, а также разработана архитектура системы и изготовлен макет устройства, который позволил провести измерения для определения оптимального алгоритма цифровой обработки сигналов. При использовании устройства применялись методы адаптивной фильтрации на основе фильтров Винера, фильтров на основе метода наименьших квадратов и Калмановской фильтрации. Разработанное устройство для фотоплетизмографических исследований обеспечило возможность мониторинга сердечного ритма с заданной точностью, контроля текущего состояния организма и может быть использовано в качестве средства диагностики заболеваний сердца The constantly growing interest in the development of new non-invasive and cuff-free methods for measuring the parameters of cardiac activity, the use of which would give the possibility of continuous and remote monitoring of the cardiovascular system, determines the relevance of this work. Numerous publications continue to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of various methods of early diagnosis of cardiovascular disease. However, motion artifacts are a strong hindrance to the accurate assessment of the performance of the cardiovascular system. One of the promising control methods is the method for assessing physiological parameters using photoplethysmography. This article is devoted to the development of a device for photoplethysmographic studies and algorithmic methods for processing recorded signals to ensure monitoring of the heart rate with a given accuracy. The work uses technologies of digital adaptive filtering of the received signals to monitor the heart rate in conditions of external mechanical and electrical interference, which worsen the accuracy characteristics of the system, as well as the architecture of the system and a prototype of the device, which made it possible to carry out measurements to determine the optimal algorithm for digital signal processing. When using the device, the methods of adaptive filtering based on Wiener filters, filters based on the least squares method and Kalman filtering were used. The developed device for photoplethysmographic studies provided the ability to monitor the heart rate with a given accuracy, control the current state of the body and can be used as a means of diagnosing heart diseases


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