European surgical research. Europäische chirurgische Forschung. Recherches chirurgicales européennes
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Gastric ulceration has been induced after stress, combining 24 h of fasting and 48 h of restraint in 9 groups of 20 rats with or without a pyloroplasty or a pylorojejunostomy combined with atropine and gastric infusion of NaHCO3 or taurocholic acid. After death or sacrifice at 48 h, ulcer index and blood in the jejunum were determined. Gastric mucosal blood flow was measured semi-continuously by a laser Doppler velocimeter. ⋯ Both groups with NaHCO3 had mucosal blood flows similar to the controls. Gastric acid and gastric emptying, mucosal ischemia and bile reflux are joint factors inducing gastric stress ulcer. The 100% survival and the low ulcer index after a treatment by atropine and gastric infusion of NaHCO3 suggest that these well-known drugs should be used more frequently.
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The myocardial (arterial-coronary sinus) balance of oxygen and lactate was studied before a cardiopulmonary bypass and during the first 5 min of a normothermic bypass in two patient groups undergoing coronary revascularization for multiple coronary artery disease. The hemodilution (HD) group was hemodiluted before the bypass with dextran 70 (15 ml/kg; resulting mean hematocrit 32%) and further at the beginning of the bypass due to nonhemic priming of the oxygenator (mean hematocrit 15%). The control (C) group was not diluted before the bypass, and four units of red blood cells were included in the oxygenator priming (mean hematocrit 27% after the beginning of the bypass). ⋯ Hypotension frequently accompanied the beginning of the bypass in both groups. It is concluded that the hemodilution to a hematocrit level of 32% in patients undergoing coronary revascularization for multiple stable coronary artery disease produces compensatory changes in myocardial oxygen extraction, but no changes of a generalized ischemia can be demonstrated. The hemodilution to a hematocrit level of 15% produces myocardial ischemia in patients with a normothermic unloaded heart, adding to the effect of hypotension at the beginning of the bypass.
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In order to construct a catheter, capable of monitoring cardiac output, a specially designed double-conical hot-film anemometer probe was fastened at the tip of a Swan-Ganz thermodilution catheter. Common sources of error for most catheter velocity probes include difficult calibration, unknown velocity profile at the point of measurement and unknown position of the probe in this profile. By using mongrel dogs and in order to exclude these sources of error, the intermittent thermodilution method was used to in vitro calibrate the hot-film anemometer, which registered velocity continuously. ⋯ The slope was significantly lower than one (t test, p less than 0.05) and the y-intercept significantly larger than zero (t test, p less than 0.02). As a control of the thermodilution method, electromagnetic flow in the ascending aorta was registered and a mean correlation coefficient of 0.967 found. The hot-film sensor itself can be used as thermodilution method with the hot-film anemometer's continuous registration of velocity.
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Recent progress in animal and human research on the effect of trauma on the fibrinolytic system is reviewed. The normal balance between activating and inhibiting mechanisms is stressed. Some pathophysiological implications of trauma induced alterations in the fibrinolytic system are presented.