Effects of Nitroglycerin on Echocardiographic Measurements of Left Ventricular Wall Thickness Regional Myocardial Performance During Acute Coronary Ischemia
Effects of Nitroglycerin on Echocardiographic Measurements of Left Ventricular Wall Thickness Regional Myocardial Performance During Acute Coronary Ischemia
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硝酸甘油对急性冠状动脉缺血期间左心室壁厚度局部心肌性能超声心动图测量的影响
DOI:
10.1161/01.cir.59.5.926
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发表时间:
1979
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影响因子:
37.8
通讯作者:
W. Hood
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作者:
R. R. Komer;A. Edalji;W. Hood
The effects of nitroglycerin on regional left ventricularperformance, assessed by echocardiographic techniques, were investigated in anesthetized, open-chest dogs during acute myocardial ischemia. During transient occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery, there was end-diastolic thinning marked reduction in systolic thickening in the central ischemic zone. Similar changes of lesser degree were noted in the border zone. The normal zone was unaffected. Infusion of nitroglycerin during ischemia in dosages of 2.5–50 μg/kg/min reduced left ventricular end-diastolic pressure withoutchanging the abnormalities of systolic wall thickening. Effects of bolus injections of 20 and 50 μ ag/kg of nitroglycerin were similar, although this also lowered aortic pressure. In a subgroup of animals in which nitroglycerin infusion was unaccompanied by tachycardia, there was also no evidence that ischemic dysfunction was altered. We conclude that nitroglycerin does not improve regional myocardial performance in acutely ischemic canine myocardium. The decrease in preload is probably entirely due to the peripheral effects of the agent.