Myocardial oxygen supply during hypocapnia and hypercapnia in the dog
- 1 November 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
- Vol. 64 (11), 1376-1380
- https://doi.org/10.1139/y86-233
Abstract
It has been postulated that a coronary vasoconstriction during hypocapnia might be opposed by a compensating coronary vasodilatation due to impaired myocardial oxygen supply. The present study was performed first to examine whether a maximal decline in coronary sinus (CS) oxygen content was reached during hypocapnia. During hypercapnia a myocardial "over perfusion" has been demonstrated. The second purpose of the present study was to examine whether a myocardial "over perfusion" is essential to maintain a sufficient myocardial tissue oxygen supply during hypercapnia. Closed-chest dogs were anesthetized with pentobarbital and hypocapnia was induced by hyperventilation. Nitrogen gas and carbon dioxide could both be added to the inspiratory gas to create arterial hypoxemia (arterial So2 65%) and hypercapnia, respectively. Arterial hypoxemia during hypocapnia increased myocardial blood flow (MBF) by 50%, while CS So2 decreased significantly. The decrease in CS So2 demonstrates a reserve capacity of myocardial oxygen extraction during hypocapnia, thereby ruling out any major coronary vasoconstriction during hypocapnia. Hypercapnia during normoxemia increased MBF, myocardial oxygen delivery, and CS So2 substantially, but this was not observed when hypercapnia was created during arterial hypoxemia. From the present results we conclude that hypocapnia does not cause any major coronary vasoconstriction, while hypercapnia results in a myocardial "over perfusion," which is a luxury perfusion not essential to maintain sufficient myocardial oxygen supply during hypercapnia.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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