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European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Vol 4, 618-623, Copyright © 1990 by European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery

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Uneven myocardial hypothermia among cardiac chambers during hypothermic myocardial preservation

YF Chen, JS Chen, JR Wang, CC Chiu and YT Lin
Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Medical College, Taiwan.

During the development of methods to protect the heart from ischaemic injury, attention has been focused on protection of the left ventricle. In an attempt to assess right heart preservation. 55 consecutive patients undergoing open heart surgery were studied. Mean aortic cross- clamp time was 59.3 +/- 29.4 min. Temperature probes were inserted into the right atrium (RA), right ventricle (RV), and left ventricle (LV). During cardioplegia, the mean myocardial temperatures of RA, RV and LV were 19.1 degrees +/- 4.1 degrees C, 12.7 degrees +/- 4.8 degrees C and 7.3 degrees +/- 3.4 degrees C, respectively. Of the LV temperature measurements, 67.2% were 10 degrees C or lower. By contrast, 94.1% of RA measurements and 58.5% of RV measurements were above 10 degrees C. The inhomogeneity of chamber temperatures was observed irrespective of the patient's disease or age and whether the atrium or right ventricle were open or not. Hearts with mitral regurgitation (MR), in contrast to mitral stenosis and stenoinsufficiency, had higher LV temperatures, similar to those in the RV. We conclude that there is uneven hypothermia among the three cardiac chambers during hypothermic cardioplegic arrest, regardless of disease states except MR and regardless of age and procedure performed.

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