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Ann Thorac Surg 1996;62:1825-1829
© 1996 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Original Articles: Cardiovascular

Glucose Level and Myocardial Recovery After Warm Arrest

Section of Thoracic Surgery, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Accepted for publication August 7, 1996.

Background. During induced cold ischemia for cardiac operations, increasing glucose concentration is not thought to enhance myocardial protection and may detrimentally affect recovery. However, during "warm aerobic" arrest, increased glucose availability as substrate could enhance postischemic metabolic and functional recovery, as during and after ischemia, myocytes shift preference for substrate from fatty acids to glucose. Unfortunately, hyperglycemia may also increase patient susceptibility to neurologic injury.

Methods. This experiment was designed to study the optimal dose of glucose and its effect on function during warm arrest. Isolated, retrograde-perfused rabbit hearts received multidose cardioplegia containing increasing concentrations of glucose, from 0 to 88 mmol/L, and underwent 120 minutes of "warm" 34°C global ischemia. Osmolarities were adjusted equivalently.

Results. After 34°C ischemia, hearts treated with 5 to 88 mmol/L glucose showed significantly better functional recovery than those treated with 0 to 1 mmol/L glucose. However, the addition of 22 mmol/L glucose demonstrated optimal recovery with no further incremental enhancement with more glucose. Additional hearts receiving 0 or 22 mmol/L glucose had high-energy phosphates, lactate, CO₂, and pH measured. The 22 mmol/L glucose hearts demonstrated active metabolism and significantly better recovery of high-energy phosphate levels than controls.

Conclusions. Increasing glucose level modestly during warm arrest enhanced recovery, but profound hyperglycemia did not incrementally improve this effect, mandating a cautious use of glucose.

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