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Mechanical work and energetic analysis of eccentric cardiac remodeling in a volume overload heart failure in rats

¹Cardiovascular Research Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York; ²Department of Physiology II, Nara Medical University School of Medicine, Nara; and ³Department of Artificial Organs, National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Osaka, Japan; and ⁴Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Submitted 24 October 2008 ; accepted in final form 3 February 2009

Eccentric cardiac remodeling seen in dilated cardiomyopathy or regurgitant valvular disease is a well-known process of heart failure progression, but its mechanoenergetic profile has not been yet established. We made a volume overload (VO) heart failure model in rats and for the first time investigated left ventricular (LV) mechanical work and energetics in cross-circulated whole heart preparations. Laparotomy was performed in 14 Wistar male rats, and abdominal aortic-inferior vena caval shunt was created in seven rats (VO group). Another seven rats underwent a sham operation without functional shunt (Sham group). LV dimensions changes were followed with weekly transthoracic echocardiography. Three months after surgery, we measured LV pressure and volume and myocardial O₂ consumption in isolated heart cross circulation. LV internal dimensions in both systolic and diastolic phases were significantly increased in the VO group versus the Sham group (P < 0.05). LV pressure was markedly decreased in the VO group versus in the Sham group (P < 0.05). LV end-systolic pressure-volume relation shifted downward, and myocardial O₂ consumption related to Ca²⁺ handling significantly decreased. The contractile response to Ca²⁺ infusion was attenuated. Nevertheless, the increase in Ca²⁺ handling-related O₂ consumption per unit change in LV contractility in the VO group was significantly higher than that in the Sham group (P < 0.05). The levels of sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca²⁺-ATPase 2a protein were reduced in the VO group (P < 0.01). In conclusion, VO failing rat hearts had a character of marked contractile dysfunction accompanied with less efficient energy utilization in the Ca²⁺ handling processes. These results suggest that restoring Ca²⁺ handling in excitation-contraction coupling would improve the contractility of the myocardium after eccentric cardiac remodeling.

eccentric left ventricular hypertrophy; myocardial oxygen consumption; Ca²⁺ handling; sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca²⁺-ATPase 2a; cross circulation; aortocaval shunt

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