AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 272, Issue 5 2079-H2084, Copyright © 1997 by American Physiological Society

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Cardiac sympathetic activity in response to acute myocardial ischemia

G. E. Newton, A. G. Adelman, V. C. Lima, P. H. Seidelin, E. Schampaert and J. D. Parker
Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Although experimental evidence has demonstrated that brief periods of myocardial ischemia are not associated with norepinephrine overflow from the heart, cardiac sympathetic responses to myocardial ischemia in humans remain unclear. Eleven patients undergoing angioplasty of the left anterior descending coronary artery had cardiac norepinephrine spillover measured immediately before inflation, during the final minute of a 5-min balloon inflation, and 1 min after deflation. Angioplasty caused significant S-T segment elevation and a reduction in the transcardiac lactate extraction ratio. Cardiac norepinephrine spillover was reduced from a mean value of 58 +/- 14 pmol/min at control to 41 +/- 15 pmol/min during balloon inflation and 38 +/- 14 pmol/min after deflation (P < 0.05 vs. control for both inflation and deflation values). In contrast, during balloon inflation, there were significant increases in arterial norepinephrine and epinephrine concentrations. Therefore, a brief period of myocardial ischemia caused by angioplasty of the left anterior descending coronary artery does not result in cardiac sympathetic activation, despite evidence of generalized sympathoadrenal activation.

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