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European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Vol 5, 458-464, Copyright © 1991 by European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery

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Effects of warm ischemia following harvesting of allograft cardiac valves

J St. Louis, P Corcoran, S Rajan, J Conte, L Wolfinbarger, J Hu, PL Lange, YN Wang, SL Hilbert and A Analouei
Department of Surgery, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC.

The clinical use of cryopreserved allograft valves is rapidly increasing. Viability of valve leaflet fibroblasts has been proposed to be critical to durability. Harvesting of allograft valves involves variable warm ischemia times, defined as the time from cessation of donor heart beat to initial cooling for transport. This ischemic period has been implicated as one of the more critical periods of injury to leaflet cell, even though adequate characterization of this potentially injurious phase has never been accomplished. The present study was undertaken to characterize the metabolic response to warm ischemia in a porcine valve leaflet model. Valve handling was similar to clinical valve harvest and transport protocols. Injury was assessed by protein (1H) and phosphorus (31P) magnetic resonance spectroscopy of 224 porcine semilunar valves. Leaflets were analyzed over time for lactate accumulation and ATP degradation. A radiolabelled incubation assay (48 valves) was used to measure proline accumulation by fibroblasts. Electron microscopy was performed on 36 valves with varying warm ischemia times. ATP stores were entirely depleted after 2 h hypoxia (p less than 0.05). However, lactate continued to accumulate over 24 h. Although aerobic metabolism ceased after 2 h warm ischemia, anaerobic metabolism continued for up to 24 h, which may represent an extended window for harvesting fresh tissue for allograft valve implantation.

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