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Differential effects of postconditioning on myocardial stunning and infarction: a study in conscious dogs and anesthetized rabbits

¹Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unité 660, Créteil; ²Faculté de Médecine, Laboratoire de Pharmacologie, Université Paris 12, Créteil; ³Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort, Maisons-Alfort; and ⁴Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Groupe Hospitalier Henri Mondor, Fédération de Cardiologie, Créteil, France

Submitted 3 February 2006 ; accepted in final form 17 March 2006

Postconditioning, i.e., brief intermittent episodes of myocardial ischemia-reperfusion performed at the onset of reperfusion, reduces infarct size after prolonged ischemia. Our goal was to determine whether postconditioning is protective against myocardial stunning. Accordingly, conscious chronically instrumented dogs (sonomicrometry, coronary balloon occluder) were subjected to a control sequence (10 min coronary artery occlusion, CAO, followed by coronary artery reperfusion, CAR) and a week apart to postconditioning with four cycles of brief CAR and CAO performed at completion of the 10 min CAO. Three postconditioning protocols were investigated, i.e., 15 s CAR/15 s CAO (n = 5), 30 s CAR/30 s CAO (n = 7), and 1 min CAR/1 min CAO (n = 6). Left ventricular wall thickening was abolished during CAO and similarly reduced during subsequent stunning in control and postconditioning sequences (e.g., at 1 h CAR, 33 ± 4 vs. 34 ± 4%, 30 ± 4 vs. 30 ± 4%, and 33 ± 4 vs. 32 ± 4% for 15 s postconditioning, 30 s postconditioning, and 1 min postconditioning vs. corresponding control, respectively). We confirmed this result in anesthetized rabbits by demonstrating that shortening of left ventricular segment length was similarly depressed after 10 min CAO in control and postconditioning sequences (4 cycles of 30 s CAR/30 s CAO). In additional rabbits, the same postconditioning protocol significantly reduced infarct size after 30 min CAO and 3 h CAR (39 ± 7%, n = 6 vs. 56 ± 4%, n = 7 of the area at risk in postconditioning vs. control, respectively). Thus, contrasting to its beneficial effects on myocardial infarction, postconditioning does not protect against myocardial stunning in dogs and rabbits. Conversely, additional episodes of ischemia-reperfusion with postconditioning do not worsen myocardial stunning.

myocardial dysfunction; coronary artery occlusion; cardioprotection

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