Blood substitutes: The future is now
Blood substitutes: The future is now
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DOI:
10.1016/s1072-7515(02)01704-0
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发表时间:
2003-01-01
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5.2
通讯作者:
Moore, EE
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作者:
Moore, EE
I thank you for the tremendous honor of presenting this prestigious lecture. As eloquently stated by those preceding me, there is no greater professional satisfaction than to be recognized by your peers. Clearly no one stands here without the enduring support and counsel of those more capable and wise. My inventory of those to whom I am forever indebted is extensive. At the top of the list are Dr John H Davis, Dr Ben Eiseman, Dr Alden H Harken, and especially my incredibly patient and insightful spouse, Dr Sarah Van Duzer. I would like to take a moment, on behalf of the extended trauma community, to express gratitude to and remember Dr C James Carrico not only for his enormous contributions to trauma care but also for the ideals he exemplified as a loving husband, caring father, altruistic academic leader, and unselfish colleague. Today I am going to resist the overwhelming desire to lament the escalating crisis in US health care, but rather share with you what I believe is one of the most exciting research developments in my lifetime for care of the injured patient. Trauma surgeons, perhaps more than any other health care providers, recognize the tremendous potential clinical benefit of a blood substitute (Table 1). Whether locally—the high school massacre in Denver, 1 nationally—the tragic 9/11 events in New York City and the Pentagon, 2 or internationally—the ongoing war against terrorism, 3 there is a sense of urgency to develop this life-sustaining resource. I believe the day this clinical benefit will finally be realized has arrived and, consequently, have chosen to review at this forum the scientific background, current status, and future application of blood substitutes in trauma care. This will be a biased perspective, because it is based principally on my opportunity to work closely with Steven A Gould, MD and Northfield Laboratories, Inc (Evanston, IL), in the insinuation of their human polymerized hemoglobin (Hb) solution, PolyHeme, into the care of the injured patient over the past decade. 4-6 The current generation of blood substitutes undergoing US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) phase III clinical testing are red blood cell (RBC) substitutes and fundamentally provide the respiratory function of hemoglobin. Agents have been developed to replace platelets 7, 8 and plasma coagulation factors; 9, 10 their combination with an RBC substitute will be a welcome refinement for the treatment of advanced hemorrhagic shock in the future. The most promising RBC substitutes at this time consist of extracted Hb from lysed RBCs, often referred to as hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers (HBOCs).Hemoglobin physiology (Fig. 1) Hemoglobin is recognized as essential for the transport of oxygen (O2). 11 Adult human Hb consists of twoand two polypeptide chains, each bound to a heme group capable of binding one molecule of O2 (1 g of Hb binds 1.39 mL of O2). The molecular weight of the Hb tetramer is 64,500. The globin subunits of deoxyhemoglobin are held by electrostatic forces in a tense conformation with a relatively low affinity for O2. When O2 binds to a heme group, mechanochemical stresses weaken the electrostatic forces, resulting in a relaxed conformation; this exposes remaining binding sites and increases O2 affinity 500-fold. The Hill coefficient reflects the cooperative effect of multiple O2 binding sites on Hb, responsible for the sigmoid shape of the oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve. The Hill coefficient of the adult RBC is 2.7 (range 2.4 to 2.9). Factors that modify O2-binding affinity include RBC 2, 3-diphosphoglycerate (2, 3-DPG) content, the concentration of carbon dioxide and hydrogen ion in blood, and body temperature. Binding of 2, 3 …