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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 274: H1933-H1942, 1998;
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Vol. 274, Issue 6, H1933-H1942, June 1998

Cerebral blood flow during hypoxic hypoxia with plasma-based hemoglobin at reduced hematocrit

John A. Ulatowski, Enrico Bucci, Anna Razynska, Richard J. Traystman, and Raymond C. Koehler

Department of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore 21287; and Department of Biological Chemistry, School of Medicine, University of Maryland at Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland 21201

We determined whether cerebral blood flow (CBF) remained related to arterial O2 content (CaO2) during hypoxic hypoxia when hematocrit and hemoglobin concentration were independently varied with cell-free, tetramerically stabilized hemoglobin transfusion. Three groups of pentobarbital sodium-anesthetized cats were studied with graded reductions in arterial O2 saturation to 50%: 1) a control group with a hematocrit of 31 ± 1% (mean ± SE; n = 7); 2) an anemia group with a hematocrit of 21 ± 1% that underwent an isovolumic exchange transfusion with an albumin solution (n = 8); and 3) a group transfused with an intramolecularly cross-linked hemoglobin solution to decrease hematocrit to 21 ± 1% (n = 10). Total arterial hemoglobin concentration (g/dl) after hemoglobin transfusion (8.8 ± 0.2) was intermediate between that of the control (10.3 ± 0.3) and albumin (7.2 ± 0.4) groups. Forebrain CBF increased after albumin and hemoglobin transfusion at normoxic O2 tensions to levels attained at equivalent reductions in CaO2 in the control group during graded hypoxia. Over a wide range of arterial O2 saturation and sagittal sinus PO2, CBF remained greater in the albumin group. When CBF was plotted against CaO2 for all three groups, a single relationship was formed. Cerebral O2 transport, O2 consumption, and fractional O2 extraction were constant during hypoxia and equivalent among groups. We conclude that CBF remains related to CaO2 during hypoxemia when hematocrit is reduced with and without proportional reductions in O2-carrying capacity. Thus O2 transport to the brain is well regulated at a constant level independently of alterations in hematocrit, hemoglobin concentration, and O2 saturation.

anemia; blood; cats; oxygen transport


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