• Chin J Integr Med · Jul 2011

    Randomized Controlled Trial

    Protective effects of the preconditioning with different doses of sodium aescinate on tourniquet-induced ischemic reperfusion.

    • Guang Yang, Su-Yang Cui, and Li-Bing Huang.
    • Department of Anesthesiology, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210029, China.
    • Chin J Integr Med. 2011 Jul 1;17(7):542-5.

    ObjectiveTo evaluate the protective effects of sodium aescinate (SA) preconditioning on the tourniquet-induced ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury after limbs operation.MethodsSeventy-five patients with grade I-II issued by American Society of Anesthesiology undergoing lower limb operation were randomly assigned to 3 groups: the control group, low-dose SA-treated group and high-dose SA-treated group; each group enrolled 25 patients. The patients were treated with 5 mg and 10 mg SA 30 min before tourniquet inflation in the two treatment groups separately, while the patients in the control group received normal saline. Venous blood samples were obtained before tourniquet was inflated (T0 baseline). And 5 (T1), 10 (T2), 20 (T3) min after tourniquet was released. The nitric oxide (NO), malondialdehyde (MDA) and superoxide dismutase (SOD) levels were determined by commercial kits. Meanwhile, arterial pressure (MAP) and heart rate (HR) were monitored from an automatic invigilator.ResultsIn the control group, MDA and NO levels were increased, and SOD and MAP were decreased significantly after tourniquet deflation compared to T0 baseline (P<0.05). After tourniquet deflation, MDA and NO levels in the two treated groups were significantly decreased; meanwhile, SOD levels and MAP were increased, and the variations of HR were more stable compared with the control group (all P<0.05). There was no significant difference in all of the above between the two treated groups (P>0.05).ConclusionThe protective effects of SA preconditioning on tourniquet-induced limb I/R injury might possibly contribute to the increasing of SOD levels, and MAP and the decreasing of MDA and NO levels.

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