• Journal of critical care · Jun 1993

    Comparative Study

    Organ blood flow and distribution of cardiac output in dopexamine- or dobutamine-treated endotoxemic rats.

    • A A van Lambalgen, A A van Kraats, M F Mulder, G C van den Bos, T Teerlink, and L G Thijs.
    • Laboratory for Physiology, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
    • J Crit Care. 1993 Jun 1; 8 (2): 117-27.

    AbstractEndotoxemia causes a decrease of blood flow to most organs. If this could be prevented, chances of survival might improve. In endotoxemic rats, we studied the effect of a therapeutic infusion of dopexamine (dopaminergic, beta 2-adrenergic) on blood flow and percentage of the cardiac output distributed to heart, brain, hepatic artery, stomach, intestines, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, adrenals, diaphragm, skeletal muscle, and skin. Dopexamine action was compared with that of dobutamine (beta 1-adrenergic). Endotoxin shock was induced in 28 rats with infusion of 8 mg/kg Escherichia coli O127:B8 endotoxin from 0 to 60 minutes; the rats were then divided into 3 groups, which received from 60 to 135 minutes of an infusion of saline (ES; n = 10), dopexamine hydrochloride (DX, 3 x 10(-8) mol/kg.min; n = 10) or dobutamine (DB, 10(-7) mol/kg.min; n = 8). A fourth group served as time-matched controls (C, saline from 0 to 135 minutes; n = 8). In the untreated endotexemic rats, cardiac output decreased and organ blood flow decreased except in the diaphragm, heart, and brain; the percentage of the cardiac output to those organs increased. Dopexamine and dobutamine similarly improved cardiac output in endotoxemic rats. All organs benefitted to the same extent from the increased cardiac output. Therapeutic infusion of dopexamine during endotoxemia did not favor flow to any particular organ; redistribution of cardiac output changed little after administration of dopexamine, and its effects were not significantly different from those of dobutamine.

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