AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 273, Issue 3 1058-H1067, Copyright © 1997 by American Physiological Society

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Left ventricular spherical dilation and regional contractile dysfunction in dogs with heart failure

M. Suzuki, C. P. Cheng, N. Ohte and W. C. Little
Cardiology Section, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA.

Left ventricular (LV) short- and long-axis contractile function and LV structural changes were serially measured in eight instrumented dogs during the development of congestive heart failure (CHF) induced by rapid right ventricular (RV) pacing. After 10 days of pacing, LV end-diastolic volume (VED) had not increased; however, the slope of LV end-systolic pressure-volume relation had decreased from 7.4 +/- 2.6 to 4.9 +/- 1.1 mmHg/ml (P < 0.05), and the slope of LV stroke work-VED relation had fallen from 78.4 +/- 9.1 to 64.2 +/- 7.2 mmHg (P < 0.05). The slopes of end-systolic pressure-dimension relation and the stroke work area-end-diastolic dimension relation in the short axes (i.e., anteroposterior and septal-lateral) had decreased by 30% (P < 0.05), whereas the slopes of the long-axis (i.e., apical-basal) relations were unchanged (not significant). After 20 days of pacing, VED had significantly increased by 14% due to selective dilation of the short axes by 7%, and LV global contractility had further declined with a 40% contractile depression in the short axes and a 25% contractile depression in the long axis. After 30 days, the long-axis dimension at end diastole was also significantly increased with a further increase in the short-axis dimensions. In contrast to the spherical dilation occurring during CHF, acute volume loading of normal animals produced symmetrical LV dilation. These observations suggest that heterogeneous contractile depression initiates the spherical end-diastolic chamber dilation in pacing-induced CHF.

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