Effect of heparin–pva hydrogel on platelets in a chronic canine arterio‐venous shunt
- 1 April 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Biomedical Materials Research
- Vol. 23 (4), 417-441
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jbm.820230404
Abstract
Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) hydrogel, with or without heparin, was reactive towards canine platelets in a chronic artriovenous shunt as demonstrated by an increase in platelet regeneration time, a systemic decrease in platelet count and transient decrease in platelet serotonin content. Immobilized heparin (heparin–PVA) had no effect whereas unmodified polyethylene was found to be unreactive despite similar levels of platelet deposition as measured by SEM and a higher in vitro reactivity (J. Biomed. Mater. Res., this is sue). Tewnty-centimeter lengths of hydrogel coated polyethylene tubing were inserted between the arterial and venous portions of the shunt and left in place for 4–6 days, without the complicating artifacts of anticoagulation, anesthesia, or surgical intervention. Regeneration time was measured as the return to normal platelet cyclooxygenase (co) activity after a single 240-mg dose of aspirin, with co activity measured in vitro as malondialde hyde production. Although measuring new platelet production, regeneration time is an indirect measure of platelet consumption, so that the reduced regeneration time seen here was presumed to reflect enhanced material associated consumption and thromboembolism. Like other hydrogels, PVA does not appear to be “thromboadherent” but it does appear thrombogenic. Immobilized heparin had no additional effect, presumably because the platelet response was dominated by the reactivity of the underlying substrate.Keywords
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