Reduction of hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction by nitrous oxide administration in the isolated perfused cat lung
- 1 September 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie
- Vol. 24 (5) , 540-549
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03005527
Abstract
Local pulmonary vasoconstriction in response to alveolar hypoxia is a protective mechanism reducing blood flow to poorly oxygenated areas of lung. Pulmonary blood flow is thereby directed to better oxygenated lung units and venous admixture and the resulting arterial hypoxaemia is reduced. The effect of nitrous oxide on the pulmonary pressor response to alveolar hypoxia was assessed in the isolated perfused cat lung preparation under conditions of constant flow and constant left atrial and airway pressures. Nitrous oxide, in concentrations of 50 per cent and 75 per cent, was found to produce a reversible depression of the hypoxic pulmonary pressor response. The importance of hypoxia pulmonary vasoconstriction and the possible implications of its reduction by anaesthetic agents are discussed. Une vasoconstriction pulmonaire locale en réponse à une hypoxie alvéolaire représente un mécanisme protecteur, en permettant au flot sanguin pulmonaire ďéviter les régions mal oxygénées du poumon et ďêtre redirigé vers des régions mieux oxygénées, ceci a comme résultat une diminution du shunt et de ľhypoxémie artérielle. Nous avons étudié ľinfluence du protoxyde ďazote sur la réponse vasculaire pulmonaire à ľhypoxie alvéolaire, ceci au moyen ďune préparation animale, soit un poumon de chat, isolé et perfusé à des conditions de débit et de pression auriculaires gauches contants et sous pression gazeuse constante dans les voies aériennes. Nous avons trouvé que le protoxyde ďazote à des concentrations de 50 et de 75 pour cent produit une dépression réversible de ce réflexe. Ľimportance de ce mécanisme est discutée ainsi que les conséquences de sa dépression par les agents anesthésiques.This publication has 28 references indexed in Scilit:
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