Measurement of Cardiac Output in Rats by 125I Dilution

1971 ◽  
Vol 49 (12) ◽  
pp. 1019-1022 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. T. Cotton ◽  
F. L. Mugashe ◽  
B. L. Gallie ◽  
H. Chan ◽  
I. H. Koven ◽  
...  

A simple, rapid, indicator-dilution method of estimating cardiac output in small animals using 125I human serum albumin has been developed. The variation of repeat determinations in a single animal was ±10%. The cardiac output in normotensive 250–350 g Wistar male rats was 217 ± 28 (±S.D.) ml/kg min−1. These results agree with others derived by more tedious methods. After the mean arterial blood pressure was reduced to 50 mm Hg for 60 min by hemorrhage the cardiac output declined to 104 ± 40 ml/kg min−1. With this method it is possible to repeat determinations of cardiac output during shock.

1963 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 430-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Arner ◽  
P. Hedner ◽  
T. Karlefors ◽  
H. Westling

ABSTRACT Observations were made on healthy volunteers during insulin induced hypoglycaemia (10 cases) and infusion of adrenaline (3 cases) or cortisol (1 case). In all cases a rise in the cardiac output was registered during insulin hypoglycaemia. The mean arterial blood pressure was relatively unchanged and the calculated peripheral vascular resistance decreased in all cases. A temporary rise in plasma corticosteroids was observed. After infusion of adrenaline similar circulatory changes were observed but no rise in plasma corticosteroids was found. Infusion of cortisol caused an increased plasma corticosteroid level but no circulatory changes. It is concluded that liberation of catechol amines and increased adrenocortical activity following hypoglycaemia are not necessarily interdependent.


2005 ◽  
Vol 288 (4) ◽  
pp. G677-G684 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens H. Henriksen ◽  
Søren Møller ◽  
Stefan Fuglsang ◽  
Flemming Bendtsen

Patients with cirrhosis have hyperdynamic circulation with abnormally distributed blood volume and widespread arteriovenous communications. We aimed to detect possible very early (i.e., before 4 s) and early (i.e., after 4 s) central circulatory transits and their potential influence on determination of central and arterial blood volume (CBV). Thirty-six cirrhotic patients and nineteen controls without liver disease undergoing hemodynamic catheterization were given central bolus injections of albumin with different labels. Exponential and gamma variate fits were applied to the indicator dilution curves, and the relations between flow, circulation times, and volumes were established according to kinetic principles. No significant very early central circulatory transits were identified. In contrast, early (i.e., 4 s to maximal) transits corresponding to a mean of 5.1% (vs. 0.8% in controls; P < 0.005) of cardiac output (equivalent to 0.36 vs. 0.05 l/min; P < 0.01) were found in cirrhotic patients. These early transits averaged 7.7 vs. 12.7 and 17.2 s of ordinary central transits of cirrhotic patients and controls, respectively ( P < 0.001). Early transits were directly correlated to the alveolar-arterial oxygen difference in the cirrhotic patients ( r = 0.46, P < 0.01) but not in controls ( r = 0.04; not significant). There was good agreement between the CBV determined by the conventional indicator dilution method and that determined by separation of early and ordinary transits by the gamma variate fit method (1.51 vs. 1.53 liter; not significant). In conclusion, no very early central circulatory transits were identified in cirrhotic patients. A significant part of the cardiac output undergoes an early transit, probably through pulmonary shunts or areas with low ventilation-perfusion ratios in cirrhotic patients. Composite determination of CBV by the gamma variate fit method is in close agreement with established kinetic methods. The study provides further evidence of abnormal central circulation in cirrhosis.


1991 ◽  
Vol 261 (5) ◽  
pp. R1118-R1125 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Toba ◽  
J. T. Crofton ◽  
M. Inoue ◽  
L. Share

This study was performed to investigate further the mechanisms underlying the sexual dimorphism of the pressor responses to vasopressin. We have confirmed our earlier findings that the pressor response to graded infusions of vasopressin in conscious unrestrained male rats is similar to that in estrous females and greater than in diestrus, proestrus, and metestrus. This difference was due primarily to greater increases in total peripheral resistance (TPR) in males and estrous females, since there were no sex- or cycle-related differences in the vasopressin-induced reductions in cardiac output. Gonadectomy was without effect in males but, in females, increased blood pressure responses to vasopressin to levels found in males. Chronic treatment of ovariectomized rats with estradiol reduced pressor responsiveness to vasopressin; treatment with progesterone was without effect. These differences were also due to differences in TPR. It is concluded that the sex- and cycle-dependent differences in vasopressin-induced increases in blood pressure are due largely to attenuation of increases in TPR by estrogen.


1985 ◽  
Vol 59 (5) ◽  
pp. 1369-1375 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Aanderud ◽  
J. Onarheim ◽  
I. Tyssebotn

Cardiac output and organ blood flow to major organs were investigated in awake rats at 1 atmosphere absolute (ATA) air and at 71 ATA He-O2. Radioactively labeled microspheres [15 +/- 1 (SD) micron] were injected into the left ventricle during constant-rate arterial blood sampling at 1 ATA air and subsequently at 71 ATA He-O2. Intra-arterial blood pressure was continuously recorded. The partial pressure of O2 was kept between 0.4 and 0.6 ATA. The results indicate that the mean blood pressure, heart rate, cardiac output, and organ blood flow are essentially unaltered in the rat at 71 ATA except for increased blood flow to the liver (122%, P less than 0.05), whereas the blood flow to the adrenals, the diaphragm, and the leg muscle fell (P less than 0.05).


1958 ◽  
Vol 192 (2) ◽  
pp. 345-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. J. Roberson ◽  
Steven M. Horvath

Twelve experiments were conducted on anesthetized and paired dogs of similar weights subjected to unimpeded, unregulated crossed circulation. Shunts were made between the carotid arteries and external jugular veins and free flow allowed for 60 minutes or longer. Statistically significant changes occurred in the mean femoral arterial blood pressures, carotid shunt blood flow, heart rate, cardiac output, cardiac work, percentage of cardiac output flowing through the shunt and pulmonary systolic and diastolic pressures of one or both animals from their control values. The mean arterial blood pressure remained at control levels for several minutes and then dropped precipitously to hypotensive levels. The lowest mean pressures between 42 and 49 mm Hg occurred within the first 16.5 minutes of the open shunt phase with a gradual return toward control levels. The volume of blood flowing through the shunt was increased initially 250% above the control carotid blood flow, followed by a reduction in flow after 15 minutes; the volume flow at this moment was still double precross circulation levels. A secondary increase in the shunt blood flow occurred throughout the remainder of the open shunt phase. In general, the heart rates and peripheral vascular resistance were slightly elevated during the open shunt phase while cardiac output and work decreased below their control values. A marked and similar increase in the percentage of the cardiac output flowing through the carotid artery was observed in both animals. During the 60 minutes of the recovery period mean arterial blood pressure, cardiac output and work tended to return to control levels while the carotid artery blood flow and pulmonary systolic and diastolic pressure remained slightly below their control values.


1958 ◽  
Vol 193 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
René Wégria ◽  
J. Nakano ◽  
J. C. McGiff ◽  
D. F. Rochester ◽  
M. R. Blumenthal ◽  
...  

In the anesthetized dog, acute arteriovenous fistulae sufficient to increase the cardiac output by from 16 to 130% resulted in an increase in the coronary blood flow even in the presence of a definite and even marked drop in the mean arterial blood pressure. The arteriovenous fistulae also resulted in an increase of the cardiac work and oxygen consumption as well as the cardiac efficiency.


1984 ◽  
Vol 246 (5) ◽  
pp. H733-H738
Author(s):  
J. K. Smallwood ◽  
K. A. Haselby ◽  
R. R. Paradise

We have developed an ascorbic acid-dilution method for measuring cardiac output which requires minimal blood withdrawal. Ascorbate is injected into a central venous catheter. The indicator-dilution curve is obtained by drawing blood from an arterial catheter through an amperometric cell at 0.96 ml/min for 35 s. The current is measured by a picoammeter . A calibration curve is obtained in 15 s prior to each indicator-dilution curve. An on-line digital computer measures the curve areas and calculates the cardiac output. Cardiac outputs of heparinized dogs anesthetized with pentobarbital and halothane measured by this method (AA) compared closely to cardiac outputs measured by the dye-dilution method (CG) (AA = 0.96 CG + 20 ml/min, r = 0.98). Both the cardiac output and the arterial blood pressure remained stable during replicate measurements of the cardiac output of 1-day-old piglets. This system allows cardiac output determinations of neonatal subjects without excessive blood removal and, with further development, should be practical in human neonates.


In August, 1903, I published a paper in the ‘Journal of Pathology’(1) in which I demonstrated a method experimentally producing uncompensated hear disease in an animal, which was compatible with life. This method consisted in diminishing the size of the pericardial sac by stitches, so that the diastolic filling of the heart was impeded. The main symptoms of this condition were dropsy and diminution in the amount of urine excreted. As the immediate result of this interference with the action of the heart, there occurred a rise of pressure throughout the whole systemic venous system extending as far back as the capillaries, and a fall of the mean arterial blood-pressure. Further, I found that the pressure in all the veins fell to the normal limit again within the space of about one hour, and that subsequently when dropsy was being produced, the vanous pressure in all parts of the body was normal, and the arterial pressure had almost recovered itself.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 1867
Author(s):  
Tasbiraha Athaya ◽  
Sunwoong Choi

Blood pressure (BP) monitoring has significant importance in the treatment of hypertension and different cardiovascular health diseases. As photoplethysmogram (PPG) signals can be recorded non-invasively, research has been highly conducted to measure BP using PPG recently. In this paper, we propose a U-net deep learning architecture that uses fingertip PPG signal as input to estimate arterial BP (ABP) waveform non-invasively. From this waveform, we have also measured systolic BP (SBP), diastolic BP (DBP), and mean arterial pressure (MAP). The proposed method was evaluated on a subset of 100 subjects from two publicly available databases: MIMIC and MIMIC-III. The predicted ABP waveforms correlated highly with the reference waveforms and we have obtained an average Pearson’s correlation coefficient of 0.993. The mean absolute error is 3.68 ± 4.42 mmHg for SBP, 1.97 ± 2.92 mmHg for DBP, and 2.17 ± 3.06 mmHg for MAP which satisfy the requirements of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) standard and obtain grade A according to the British Hypertension Society (BHS) standard. The results show that the proposed method is an efficient process to estimate ABP waveform directly using fingertip PPG.


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