TY - JOUR
T1 - The protective effect of hypervolemic hemodilution in experimental heatstroke
AU - Chang, Chen Kuei
AU - Chien, Cheu Heng
AU - Chou, Hung Li
AU - Lin, Mao Tsun
PY - 2001/8
Y1 - 2001/8
N2 - The authors tested the hypothesis in a rat model that hypervolemic hemodilution during heatstroke affected the mean arterial pressure (MAP), striatal dopamine (DA) release, and local cerebral blood flow and neuronal damage score in different brain structures. The heatstroke was induced by exposing the urethane-anesthetized rats to an ambient temperature of 42°C. Hypervolemic hemodilution was produced by intravenous administration of 10% human albumin. Relative and absolute blood flow in the corpus striatum were determined using the laser Doppler flowmetry and the autoradiography diffusible tracer technique, respectively. The DA release in the striatum was estimated using the in vivo microdialysis technique. After onset of heatstroke, animals with hypervolemic state alone, produced by saline or heparinized blood injection, displayed higher values of DA release, as well as neuronal damage score in the striatum, hypothalamus, or cortex, but lower values of MAP and blood flow in the striatum, hypothalamus, or cortex compared to normothermic controls. However, the heatstroke-induced arterial hypotension, cerebral ischemia, increased striatal DA overload, and increased neuronal damage score were attenuated by induction of both hypervolemic and hemodilution state with 10% albumin either before or after the onset of heatstroke. In addition, constant infusions of a vasopressor agent phenylephrine (2 μg kg-1 min-1) after the onset of heatstroke failed to maintain appropriate levels of MAP and resulted in no protection against heatstroke. Thus, it appears that the observed benefit of the 10% albumin is secondary to hemodilution and/or maintenance of MAP.
AB - The authors tested the hypothesis in a rat model that hypervolemic hemodilution during heatstroke affected the mean arterial pressure (MAP), striatal dopamine (DA) release, and local cerebral blood flow and neuronal damage score in different brain structures. The heatstroke was induced by exposing the urethane-anesthetized rats to an ambient temperature of 42°C. Hypervolemic hemodilution was produced by intravenous administration of 10% human albumin. Relative and absolute blood flow in the corpus striatum were determined using the laser Doppler flowmetry and the autoradiography diffusible tracer technique, respectively. The DA release in the striatum was estimated using the in vivo microdialysis technique. After onset of heatstroke, animals with hypervolemic state alone, produced by saline or heparinized blood injection, displayed higher values of DA release, as well as neuronal damage score in the striatum, hypothalamus, or cortex, but lower values of MAP and blood flow in the striatum, hypothalamus, or cortex compared to normothermic controls. However, the heatstroke-induced arterial hypotension, cerebral ischemia, increased striatal DA overload, and increased neuronal damage score were attenuated by induction of both hypervolemic and hemodilution state with 10% albumin either before or after the onset of heatstroke. In addition, constant infusions of a vasopressor agent phenylephrine (2 μg kg-1 min-1) after the onset of heatstroke failed to maintain appropriate levels of MAP and resulted in no protection against heatstroke. Thus, it appears that the observed benefit of the 10% albumin is secondary to hemodilution and/or maintenance of MAP.
KW - Arterial hypotension
KW - Cerebral ischemia
KW - Heatstroke
KW - Hypervolemic hemodilution
KW - Neuronal damage
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U2 - 10.1097/00024382-200116020-00012
DO - 10.1097/00024382-200116020-00012
M3 - Article
C2 - 11508869
AN - SCOPUS:0035432863
SN - 1073-2322
VL - 16
SP - 153
EP - 158
JO - Shock
JF - Shock
IS - 2
ER -