Revascularization of hibernating myocardium: uneven reflorescence after the drought.
Revascularization of hibernating myocardium: uneven reflorescence after the drought.
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冬眠心肌的血运重建:干旱后不均匀的再花。
DOI:
10.1016/j.jacc.2014.12.024
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发表时间:
2015
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24
通讯作者:
Recchia,FabioA
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作者:
Recchia,FabioA
Rahimtoola first defined hibernating myocardium as the “. prolonged subacute or chronic stage of myocardial ischemia that is frequently not accompanied by pain and in which myocardial contractility and metabolism and ventricular function are reduced to match the reduced blood supply”(1). Severe coronary artery stenosis is the primary cause of hibernation, which can be partially or completely reversed by interventions of revascularization (2). An approximate PubMed search on the topic “hibernating myocardium” yields about 500 research papers published since 1985, not including many prior and subsequent clinical and experimental studies that defined and explored the peculiar changes occurring in chronically-hypoperfused myocardium. Despite the conspicuous published studies, our grasp of the pathophysiological and molecular processes leading to myocardial hibernation is still limited. One of the phenomena that remain poorly understood is the variability of functional recovery observed in patients, even months after revascularization of chronically hibernating ventricular segments (3–4). This problem has important prognostic implications (5). Because prolonged hypoperfusion can cause partial necrosis/fibrosis, a proposed explanation is that the degree of post-revascularization improvement is highly dependent on the residual mass of viable myocardium; clinical and experimental studies have shown a linear, inverse correlation between the extent of transmural necrosis/fibrosis and contractile function of ischemic and post-ischemic ventricular walls (4, 6, 7). But, the interpretative paradigms in biology and medicine are very often not intuitive and obvious. Despite the absence of fibrosis, more than 20% of patients were reported to experience persistent contractile dysfunction in successfully revascularized ventricular segments (4). This phenomenon hints at possible alterations to viable cardiomyocytes that negatively affect their function.The study by Page et al.(8) in this issue of the Journal tested the hypothesis that persistent myocyte loss and/or altered protein expression influence the functional recovery of revascularized hibernating myocardium in the absence of infarction. The authors used an elegant and technically-challenging swine model of severe left anterior descending coronary artery stenosis to induce and maintain myocardial hibernation over a period of 3 months, followed by complete recanalization with an intravascular stent, and then 1 month of follow-up. This model was conveniently devoid of necrosis/fibrosis; yet, at 1 month after revascularization, ventricular wall systolic thickening was only partially restored. The role of transmural necrosis was ruled out. So, did revascularization largely fail to overturn cellular alterations? The surprising finding was that, although vessel reopening did lead to numerous reverse changes, these were very heterogeneous. A thorough proteomic analysis revealed normalization of previously upregulated stress and cytoskeletal proteins, persistent down-regulation of some contractile proteins, and nonuniform changes in regulation of metabolic enzymes. Among the latter, the expression of pyruvate