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Ann Thorac Surg 1980;30:110-117
© 1980 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Is Reperfusion Injury from Multiple Aortic Cross-Clamping a Current Myth of Cardiac Surgery?

From the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Marshfield Clinic, St. Joseph Hospital, and the Marshfield Medical Foundation, Inc., Marshfield, WI

^* Address reprint requests to Dr. Lolley, Trover Clinic, Clinic Dr, Madisonville, KY 42431

Four hundred eighty adult patients undergoing cardiac operations had systemic and topical hypothermic anoxic arrest supplemented with potassium chloride pharmacological cardioplegia in a prospective randomized study. Group 1 (217 patients) had continuous aortic cross-clamping and one single anoxic arrest period during the cardiac portion of the operation which resulted in a transmural myocardial infarction rate of 8.3%, myocardial "injury" incidence of 12.4%, 4.6% cardiac-related deaths, 11.5% and 24.8% severe and malignant ventricular arrhythmias, 21.7% rate of severe vasopressor usage, a mean group serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT) of 140 ± 39 IU, and a mean group lactic dehydrogenase (LDH) of 636 ± 78.2 IU. Group 2 (263 patients) had intermittent aortic cross-clamping with multiple reperfusion intervals, which resulted in a significantly lower incidence of transmural myocardial infarction at 1.9% (p < 0.01), rate of myocardial injury at 5.66% (p < 0.02), number of cardiac deaths at 0.76% (p < 0.02), 8.7% and 16.0% severe and malignant ventricular arrhythmias (p < 0.01), severe vasopressor utilization rate of 14.3% (p < 0.05), mean group SGOT at 72.0 ± 3.1 IU (p < 0.01), and mean group LDH at 471.0 ± 12.3 IU (p < 0.05) than Group 1. These results do not support the contention that intermittent aortic cross-clamping in conjunction with hypothermia and pharmacological cardioplegia leads to increased clinical cardiac damage compared with continuous aortic cross-clamping. The converse is implied, in that the anoxic heart may benefit from the physiological effects of briefly reperfused oxygenated blood.

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