MICROVASCULAR DISTRIBUTION OF CORONARY VASCULAR-RESISTANCE IN BEATING LEFT-VENTRICLE
MICROVASCULAR DISTRIBUTION OF CORONARY VASCULAR-RESISTANCE IN BEATING LEFT-VENTRICLE
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DOI:
10.1152/ajpheart.1986.251.4.h779
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发表时间:
1986-10-01
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MARCUS, ML
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CHILIAN, WM;EASTHAM, CL;MARCUS, ML
To determine the distribution of resistance in the coronary vasculature, measurements of microvasculature pressure and diameter were obtained with vasomotor tone intact and during coronary dilation produced by papaverine. We studied anesthtetized, open-chest cats and used jet ventilation synchronized to the cardiac cycle to eliminate respiratory-induced cardiac motion. The system for measuring microvascular pressure compensated for cardiac motion with stroboscopic illumination of the microvessels and a computer-controlled electromechanical micromanipulator that moved a micropipette in synchrony with the heat. Pressures were measured with the servonull technique and diameters were measured via a video system. Resistance was estimated from the pressure gradient from the aorta to a particular class (size) of coronary microvessel. During control conditions, with coronary vasomotor tone intact, myocardial perfusion was 139 .+-. 9 ml .cntdot. min-1 .cntdot. 100 g-1 and was increased to 139 .+-. 52 during papaverine infusion (P < 0.05). During control conditions (mean arterial pressure 70-80 mmHg), .apprx. 25% of total coronary resistance was proximal to 200-.mu.m-diameter arterioles and .apprx. 20% was produced by arterioles between 100 and 200 .mu.m diameter; there was .apprx. 20-mmHg pressure gradient from the aorta to 200-.mu.m arterioles and 30- to 35-mmHg gradient from the aorta to 100-.mu.m arterioles. Present results also indicate that 55% of total coronary resistance is distal to the 100-.mu.m arterioles under control conditions. Coronary vasodilation with papaverine (mean arterial pressure maintained at 70-75 mmHg with an aortic snare) produced a redistribution of resistance; only 10% of total resistance as proximal to the 200-.mu.m arterioles, and the pressure gradient from the aorta to these vessels was only 5-10 mmHg. Thus, under these experimental conditions with vasomotor tone intact, a substantial portion (45%) of coronary resistance residues in relatively large (> 100-.mu.m) coronary arterioles, and the distribution of resistance and microvascular pressure can be shifted with coronary vasodilation.