Left ventricular O2 consumption and pressure-volume area in puppies

1987 ◽  
Vol 253 (4) ◽  
pp. H770-H776 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Suga ◽  
O. Yamada ◽  
Y. Goto ◽  
Y. Igarashi ◽  
Y. Yasumura ◽  
...  

We studied the relation between O2 consumption (VO2) and systolic pressure-volume (PV) area (PVA) in the left ventricles of eight puppies (2-4 mo old). PVA is the area circumscribed by the end-systolic and end-diastolic PV curves and systolic PV trajectory. We assumed PVA to represent the total mechanical energy generated by ventricular contraction. We produced isovolumic contractions at different volumes in the left ventricles isolated and cross-circulated with adult dogs. VO2 closely correlated with PVA in each of control contractile state, an enhanced contractile state with epinephrine, and a depressed contractile state with propranolol in each heart. The slope of the regression line of VO2 on PVA was not significantly affected by epinephrine and propranolol. The regression line shifted upward with epinephrine and downward with propranolol. These characteristics of the puppy's VO2-PVA relation were comparable to those of the adult dog. These results suggest that similar relations hold between myocardial mechanics and energetics in both the puppy and adult dog despite the differences in the heart size and contractile properties.

1987 ◽  
Vol 252 (6) ◽  
pp. H1258-H1264 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Suga ◽  
Y. Yasumura ◽  
T. Nozawa ◽  
S. Futaki ◽  
Y. Igarashi ◽  
...  

Systolic pressure-volume area (PVA) is the area circumscribed by the end-systolic pressure-volume (PV) line, the end-diastolic PV curve, and the systolic PV trajectory of the ventricle. PVA represents the total mechanical energy generated by ventricular contraction. Myocardial O2 consumption (VO2) linearly correlates with PVA under different pre- and afterloads in the dog left ventricle. The linear VO2-PVA relation parallel shifts with changes in contractility index Emax. We have retrospectively obtained VO2 = A X PVA + B . Emax + C, where A, B, and C are regression coefficients. We used this equation to prospectively predict VO2 from measured PVA and Emax in a new group of dog left ventricles. Coefficient of determination (CD) of measured VO2 from predicted VO2 was 0.86 +/- 0.09 (SD) in individual hearts, but decreased to 0.72 when data of the five hearts were pooled. These prospective CDs in individual hearts and all hearts were smaller than retrospective CDs in the individual hearts (0.90 +/- 0.06). Inter-individual variations of A,B, and C caused the lower prospective predictability.


1988 ◽  
Vol 254 (2) ◽  
pp. H292-H303 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Suga ◽  
Y. Goto ◽  
Y. Yasumura ◽  
T. Nozawa ◽  
S. Futaki ◽  
...  

We compared the effects of decreased coronary perfusion pressure (CP) and propranolol on the relation between left ventricular O2 consumption (VO2) and systolic pressure-volume area (PVA). PVA represents total mechanical energy generated by contraction and is the area under the end-systolic pressure-volume (PV) line and systolic PV trajectory. In excised cross-circulated dog hearts, a decrease in CP from 82 (mean) to 51 mmHg decreased ventricular contractility index Emax (slope of end-systolic PV relation) by 17% (P less than 0.05) and slightly (P less than 0.05 in 3 of 11 hearts) lowered the VO2-PVA relation in a parallel fashion. A further decrease in CP to 32 mmHg decreased Emax by 56% (P less than 0.05) and considerably (P less than 0.05) lowered the VO2-PVA relation by decreasing both the VO2-axis intercept by 26% (P less than 0.05) and the slope by 24% (P less than 0.05) from control. Propranolol decreased Emax by 48% (P less than 0.05) and the VO2-axis intercept by 25% (P less than 0.05) without changing the slope (P greater than 0.05). We attributed the different response of the VO2-PVA relation to the difference of the coronary O2 supply-demand balance between decreased CP and propranolol.


1992 ◽  
Vol 262 (3) ◽  
pp. H719-H727 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Goto ◽  
B. K. Slinker ◽  
M. M. LeWinter

To compare the effects of amrinone (AMR) and isoproterenol (Iso) on left ventricular contractility and energetics, we assessed Emax (ventricular contractility index) and the relation between oxygen consumption per beat (VO2) and systolic pressure-volume area (PVA, a measure of left ventricular total mechanical energy) in isolated cross-circulated (blood-perfused) rabbit hearts during infusion of AMR or Iso in either a constant-flow (CF) or constant-pressure (CP) perfusion mode. Both Emax and the VO2 intercept of the linear VO2-PVA relation increased significantly during AMRCP (increase in Emax 15% and increase in VO2 intercept 11%), ISOCF (49 and 43%), and ISOCP (55 and 54%) but not during AMRCF. However, neither drug changed the slope of the VO2-PVA relation (reciprocal of contractile efficiency) in either perfusion mode. Furthermore, with both drugs the relation between increases in Emax and the VO2 intercept fell on a single regression line (r = 0.92). We conclude that 1) although the mechanism of action and inotropic potency of the two drugs differ, their effects on cardiac energetic cost are essentially the same, i.e., both drugs increase the nonmechanical oxygen cost in proportion to the increase in contractility without changing contractile efficiency, and 2) a significant portion of the inotropic effect of AMR in the whole ventricle is likely due to increased coronary blood flow, i.e., Gregg's phenomenon.


1988 ◽  
Vol 255 (2) ◽  
pp. H366-H374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Goto ◽  
B. K. Slinker ◽  
M. M. LeWinter

The end-systolic pressure-volume relation (ESPVR), a measure of ventricular contractile state, and systolic pressure-volume area (PVA), a primary determinant of cardiac oxygen consumption per beat (VO2), have been derived from the pressure-volume diagram of the cross-circulated dog left ventricle. The slope of the PVA-VO2 relation represents the efficiency of chemomechanical energy transduction of the contractile machinery. To see whether these relationships were similar in other animals, we studied the isovolumic ESPVR and the VO2-PVA relation in nine excised, cross-circulated rabbit left ventricles. The base-line ESPVR was linear (r = 0.94-0.99) with the slope (Emax) and volume-axis intercept (V0) equal to 83.4 +/- 18.3 mmHg/ml and 0.43 +/- 0.17 ml, respectively. When normalized for left ventricular weight, Emax (4.1 +/- 1.1 mmHg.ml-1.100 g) and V0 (8.9 +/- 3.7 ml/100 g) were similar to values reported for the dog left ventricle. The correlation between PVA and VO2 was linear (r = 0.93-1.00), and the slope (1.90 X 10(-5) +/- 0.44 X 10(-5) ml O2.mmHg-1.ml-1) and VO2-axis intercept (0.040 +/- 0.009 ml O2.beat-1.100 g-1) were similar to values found in the dog left ventricle. Hence, despite the greatly different heart size, the base-line contractile state and chemomechanical energy conversion efficiency of the excised, cross-circulated rabbit left ventricle are similar to those of the dog left ventricle.


2009 ◽  
Vol 297 (5) ◽  
pp. H1736-H1743 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chikako Nakajima-Takenaka ◽  
Guo-Xing Zhang ◽  
Koji Obata ◽  
Kiyoe Tohne ◽  
Hiroko Matsuyoshi ◽  
...  

We investigated left ventricular (LV) mechanical work and energetics in the cross-circulated (blood-perfused) isoproterenol [Iso 1.2 mg·kg−1·day−1 for 3 days (Iso3) or 7 days (Iso7)]-induced hypertrophied rat heart preparation under isovolumic contraction-relaxation. We evaluated pressure-time curves per beat, end-systolic pressure-volume and end-diastolic pressure-volume relations, and myocardial O2 consumption per beat (V̇o2)-systolic pressure-volume area (PVA; a total mechanical energy per beat) linear relations at 240 beats/min, because Iso-induced hypertrophied hearts failed to completely relax at 300 beats/min. The LV relaxation rate at 240 beats/min in Iso-induced hypertrophied hearts was significantly slower than that in control hearts [saline 24 μl/day for 3 and 7 days (Sa)] with unchanged contraction rate. The V̇o2-intercepts (composed of basal metabolism and Ca2+ cycling energy consumption in excitation-contraction coupling) of V̇o2-PVA linear relations were unchanged associated with their unchanged slopes in Sa, Iso3, and Iso7 groups. The oxygen costs of LV contractility were also unchanged in all three groups. The amounts of expression of sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase, phospholamban (PLB), phosphorylated-Ser16 PLB, phospholemman, and Na+-K+-ATPase are significantly decreased in Iso3 and Iso7 groups, although the amount of expression of NCX1 is unchanged in all three groups. Furthermore, the marked collagen production (types I and III) was observed in Iso3 and Iso7 groups. These results suggested the possibility that lowering the heart rate was beneficial to improve mechanical work and energetics in isoproterenol-induced hypertrophied rat hearts, although LV relaxation rate was slower than in normal hearts.


1991 ◽  
Vol 261 (1) ◽  
pp. H196-H205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Ohgoshi ◽  
Y. Goto ◽  
S. Futaki ◽  
H. Yaku ◽  
H. Suga

We studied the effects of plasma catecholamines from the adrenal gland on systolic pressure-volume area (PVA)-independent O2 consumption (VO2) and contractility index (Emax) in the left ventricle of excised cross-circulated dog hearts. PVA is a measure of the total mechanical energy of contraction. Under baseline conditions, the PVA-independent VO2 correlated with plasma catecholamine level in the hearts (r = 0.84). Plasma epinephrine and norepinephrine levels increased gradually from 0.3 and 0.4 ng/ml to 10.3 and 2.7 ng/ml on average during adrenal sympathetic nerve stimulation of support dogs. Simultaneously, Emax and PVA-independent VO2 increased by 240 +/- 127 (SD) and 75 +/- 24%. Although their increases were monotonic in a given heart, their sensitivities to catecholamines were considerably variable among hearts. However, these two sensitivities were correlated (r = 0.96) with each other in the hearts, and the interheart variation of the sensitivity of the PVA-independent VO2 to Emax (i.e., oxygen cost of Emax) was smaller. We conclude that the oxygen cost of Emax is less variable among hearts despite large interheart variations of Emax and VO2 responses to plasma catecholamines.


1983 ◽  
Vol 244 (2) ◽  
pp. H206-H214 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Suga ◽  
R. Hisano ◽  
S. Hirata ◽  
T. Hayashi ◽  
O. Yamada ◽  
...  

Left ventricular (LV) systolic pressure-volume area (PVA), a new measure of total mechanical energy for the contraction, linearly correlates with its oxygen consumption per beat (VO2) regardless of contraction mode in a canine heart with stable chronotropism and inotropism. PVA is the area in the pressure-volume (PV) diagram circumscribed by the end-systolic and end-diastolic PV relation curves and the systolic segment of the PV loop and has dimensions of energy. We investigated whether primary changes in heart rate would affect the VO2-PVA relation. In the excised cross-circulated canine heart with left ventricular load controlled with a servo pump, we changed heart rate by pacing to compare the VO2-PVA relations at low [124 +/- 17 (SD) min-1] and high (193 +/- 23) heart rates. In 15 left ventricles, VO2 (ml O2 X beat-1 X 100 g LV-1) was (1.75 +/- 0.57) X 10(-5) PVA (mmHg X ml X beat-1 X 100 g LV-1) + 0.031 +/- 0.011 (ml O2 X beat-1 X 100 g LV-1). The VO2-PVA relation was virtually independent of heart rate in individual hearts. We conclude that the load-independent VO2-PVA relationship is not affected by chronotropism in a given canine left ventricle.


1997 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
pp. 658-666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kunihisa Kohno ◽  
Miyako Takaki ◽  
Kazunari Ishioka ◽  
Yasunori Nakayama ◽  
Shunsuke Suzuki ◽  
...  

Background It is still unclear whether fentanyl directly alters left ventricular (LV) contractility and oxygen consumption. This is because of the difficulty in defining and evaluating contractility and energy use independently of ventricular loading conditions and heart rate in beating whole hearts. Methods This study was conducted to clarify the mechanoenergetic effects of intracoronary fentanyl in six excised cross-circulated canine hearts. The authors used the framework of the Emax (a contractility index)-PVA (systolic pressure-volume area, a measure of total mechanical energy)-VO2 (myocardial oxygen consumption per beat) relationship practically independent of ventricular loading conditions. The authors measured LV pressure, volume, coronary flow, and arteriovenous oxygen content difference to calculate Emax, PVA, and VO2. They first obtained the VO2-PVA relationship for varied LV volumes at control Emax. The authors then obtained the VO2-PVA relationship at a constant LV volume, whereas coronary blood fentanyl concentration was increased in steps up to 240 ng/ml. Finally, they obtained the VO2-PVA relationship for varied LV volumes at the final dose of fentanyl. Results Fentanyl at any concentrations did not significantly change Emax, PVA, and VO2 from the control. The linear end-systolic pressure-volume relations and their slopes were virtually the same between the control and fentanyl volume loading in each heart. Further, either the slope (oxygen cost of PVA) or the VO2 intercept (unloaded VO2) of the linear VO2-PVA relationship remained unchanged by fentanyl. Conclusions These results indicate that intracoronary fentanyl produces virtually no effects on LV mechanoenergetics for a wide range of its blood concentration.


2005 ◽  
Vol 288 (4) ◽  
pp. H1699-H1707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroji Hagihara ◽  
Yoshiro Yoshikawa ◽  
Yoshimi Ohga ◽  
Chikako Takenaka ◽  
Ken-ya Murata ◽  
...  

We have recently reported that exposure of rat hearts to high Ca2+ produces a Ca2+ overload-induced contractile failure in rat hearts, which was associated with proteolysis of α-fodrin. We hypothesized that contractile failure after ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) is similar to that after high Ca2+ infusion. To test this hypothesis, we investigated left ventricular (LV) mechanical work and energetics in the cross-circulated rat hearts, which were subjected to 15 min global ischemia and 60 min reperfusion. Sixty minutes after I/R, mean systolic pressure-volume area (PVA; a total mechanical energy per beat) at midrange LV volume (mLVV) (PVAmLVV) was significantly decreased from 5.89 ± 1.55 to 3.83 ± 1.16 mmHg·ml·beat−1·g−1 ( n = 6). Mean myocardial oxygen consumption per beat (Vo2) intercept of (Vo2-PVA linear relation was significantly decreased from 0.21 ± 0.05 to 0.15 ± 0.03 μl O2·beat−1·g−1 without change in its slope. Initial 30-min reperfusion with a Na+/Ca2+ exchanger (NCX) inhibitor KB-R7943 (KBR; 10 μmol/l) significantly reduced the decrease in mean PVAmLVV and Vo2 intercept ( n = 6). Although Vo2 for the Ca2+ handling was finally decreased, it transiently but significantly increased from the control for 10–15 min after I/R. This increase in Vo2 for the Ca2+ handling was completely blocked by KBR, suggesting an inhibition of reverse-mode NCX by KBR. α-Fodrin proteolysis, which was significantly increased after I/R, was also significantly reduced by KBR. Our study shows that the contractile failure after I/R is similar to that after high Ca2+ infusion, although the contribution of reverse-mode NCX to the contractile failure is different. An inhibition of reverse-mode NCX during initial reperfusion protects the heart against reperfusion injury.


1997 ◽  
Vol 86 (6) ◽  
pp. 1350-1358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kunihisa Kohno ◽  
Miyako Takaki ◽  
Kazunari Ishioka ◽  
Yasunori Nakayama ◽  
Shunsuke Suzuki ◽  
...  

Background It is still unclear whether fentanyl directly alters left ventricular (LV) contractility and oxygen consumption. This is because of the difficulty in defining and evaluating contractility and energy use independently of ventricular loading conditions and heart rate in beating whole hearts. Methods This study was conducted to clarify the mechanoenergetic effects of intracoronary fentanyl in six excised cross-circulated canine hearts. The authors used the framework of the E(max) (a contractility index)-PVA (systolic pressure-volume area, a measure of total mechanical energy)-VO2 (myocardial oxygen consumption per beat) relationship practically independent of ventricular loading conditions. The authors measured LV pressure, volume, coronary flow, and arteriovenous oxygen content difference to calculate E(max), PVA, and VO2. They first obtained the VO2-PVA relationship for varied LV volumes at control E(max). The authors then obtained the VO2-PVA relationship at a constant LV volume, whereas coronary blood fentanyl concentration was increased in steps up to 240 ng/ml. Finally, they obtained the VO2-PVA relationship for varied LV volumes at the final dose of fentanyl. Results Fentanyl at any concentrations did not significantly change E(max), PVA, and VO2 from the control. The linear end-systolic pressure-volume relations and their slopes were virtually the same between the control and fentanyl volume loading in each heart. Further, either the slope (oxygen cost of PVA) or the VO2 intercept (unloaded VO2) of the linear VO2-PVA relationship remained unchanged by fentanyl. Conclusions These results indicate that intracoronary fentanyl produces virtually no effects on LV mechanoenergetics for a wide range of its blood concentration.


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