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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 279: H1392-H1396, 2000;
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Vol. 279, Issue 3, H1392-H1396, September 2000

Transmyocardial revascularization aggravates myocardial ischemia around the channels in the immediate phase

Naoichiro Hattan1,4, Kazunobu Ban2, Etsuro Tanaka1,4, Sumihisa Abe2, Takafumi Sekka3, Yoshinori Sugio3, Minhaz U. Mohammed1, Eriko Sato3, Yoshiro Shinozai1, Yozo Onishi5, Hisayoshi Suma6, Shunnosuke Handa2, Shiaki Kawada5, Shingo Hori5, Atsuo Iida7, Hiroe Nakazawa1, and Hidezo Mori1,4

1 Departments of Physiology, 2 Cardiology, 3 Surgery, and 4 Research Center for Genetic Engineering and Cell Transplantation, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara 259-1193; 5 School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo 160-8582; 6 Shohnan Kamakura Hospital, Kamakura 247-8533; and 7 High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba 305-0801, Japan

We examined whether transmyocardial revascularization (TMR) relieves myocardial ischemia by increasing regional perfusion via the transmural channels in acute canine experiments. Regional blood flow during transient coronary ligation (2 min) was compared before and 30 min after TMR, and at the third transient ischemia the mid-left ventricle (LV) was cut and immediately frozen along the short axis for the analysis of NADH fluorescence in the regions around the TMR channels. In low-resolution analysis (2-4 g tissue or 2-3 cm2 area), regional perfusion was not significantly altered after TMR, and NADH fluorescence was observed throughout the ischemic region without significant spatial variation. High-resolution analysis (2.8 mg, 1 mm × 1 mm) revealed that the flow after TMR was lower, and NADH fluorescence was higher in the regions close to the channels (1-2 mm) than in the regions 3-4 mm away from them. Creating TMR channels did not improve the regional perfusion and rather aggravated the local ischemia in the vicinity of the channels in the immediate phase.

regional blood flow; microspheres; NADH fluorescence


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