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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2001;19:74-81
© 2001 Elsevier Science NL

Comparison of myocardial oxygen consumption using ¹¹C acetate positron emission tomography scanning in a working and non-working heart transplant model

^a Department of Cardiac Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institution, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
^b Department of Nuclear Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institution, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
^c Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institution, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA

Received 12 January 2000; received in revised form 2 October 2000; accepted 30 October 2000.

Corresponding author. Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA. Tel.: +1-507-255-2034; fax: +1-507-255-7378
e-mail: zehr.kenton{at}mayo.edu

Objective: In acute cardiac rejection, changes in myocardial oxygen consumption occur; non-invasive detection of these metabolic changes would have obvious clinical utility. In the classic cervical, heterotopic, canine, transplant model, the heart is non-working. It has a low myocardial oxygen consumption. Creation of a working model with normal myocardial oxygen consumption would enhance validity of non-human studies. Methods: Clearance of ¹¹C acetate was determined by positron emission tomography (PET) scanning and compared with myocardial oxygen consumption in normal and transplanted canine hearts. Donor hearts from mongrel dogs (2.5–3 kg; n=4) were transplanted into the neck of adult beagles (12–15 kg; n=4), no immunosuppression was given. Two non-working hearts were modified to eject only coronary flow via the right ventricle. In two hearts, a novel working model was created with aortic regurgitation to load the left ventricle. Working and non-working hearts underwent PET scanning on post-operative days 2 and 4. Normal dog hearts (n=2) and native hearts of transplanted dogs (n=3) were used to validate the scanning technique. Coronary sinus and aortic oxygen saturation data along with myocardial blood flow (radiolabeled microspheres) confirmed that clearance of ¹¹C acetate in normal and transplanted hearts followed a bi-exponential model. Results: Myocardial oxygen consumption was correlated with the rate constant of ¹¹C acetate rapid phase clearance (r=0.91) in normal and transplanted hearts. The working hearts had increased myocardial oxygen consumption compared to non-working hearts. Conclusions: This study (1) introduces a model of a working heterotopic cardiac transplantation with near-normal oxygen consumption; and (2) demonstrates that regional myocardial oxygen consumption in transplanted hearts can be detected by ¹¹C acetate PET.

Key Words: Positron emission tomography scan • Cardiac transplantation • Myocardial oxygen consumption • Acute rejection