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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 280: H2591-H2597, 2001;
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Vol. 280, Issue 6, H2591-H2597, June 2001

Oxygen delivery at high blood viscosity and decreased arterial oxygen content to brains of conscious rats

A. Rebel, C. Lenz, H. Krieter, K. F. Waschke, K. Van Ackern, and W. Kuschinsky

Faculty of Clinical Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Mannheim D-68067; and Department of Physiology, University of Heidelberg, D-69120, Heidelberg, Germany

We addressed the question to which extent cerebral blood flow (CBF) is maintained when, in addition to a high blood viscosity (Bvis) arterial oxygen content (CaO2) is gradually decreased. CaO2 was decreased by hemodilution to hematocrits (Hct) of 30, 22, 19, and 15% in two groups. One group received blood replacement (BR) only and served as the control. The second group received an additional high viscosity solution of polyvinylpyrrolidone (BR/PVP). Bvis was reduced in the BR group and was doubled in the BR/PVP. Despite different Bvis, CBF did not differ between BR and BR/PVP rats at Hct values of 30 and 22%, indicating a complete vascular compensation of the increased Bvis at decreased CaO2. At an Hct of 19%, local cerebral blood flow (LCBF) in some brain structures was lower in BR/PVP rats than in BR rats. At the lowest Hct of 15%, LCBF of 15 brain structures and mean CBF were reduced in BR/PVP. The resulting decrease in cerebral oxygen delivery in the BR/PVP group indicates a global loss of vascular compensation. We concluded that vasodilating mechanisms compensated for Bvis increases thereby maintaining constant cerebral oxygen delivery. Compensatory mechanisms were exhausted at a Hct of 19% and lower as indicated by the reduction of CBF and cerebral oxygen delivery.

anemia; cerebral blood flow; autoradiography blood replacement; microcirculation


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