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Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Osaka Medical College Osaka, Japan
For reprint information contact: Shigetoshi Mieno, MD Tel: 81 72 683 1221 Fax: 81 72 684 6542 Email: tho050{at}poh.osaka-med.ac.jp, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka Medical College, 2-7 Daigakucho, Takatsuki, Osaka 569-8686, Japan
The effect of the ultra-short-acting beta blocker, landiolol, on ischemic preconditioning was examined in isolated rabbit hearts. Ischemic preconditioned hearts received 2 episodes of 5 min each of global ischemia and reperfusion. The left anterior descending coronary artery was occluded for 1 hour and reperfused for 1 hour. Left ventricular end-systolic and end-diastolic pressures and infarct size were measured. Seven control hearts had no drug infused. Four groups of 6 hearts each were pretreated with 1 or 3 µM of landiolol or a combination of 1 or 3 µM landiolol and ischemic preconditioning. A further group of 6 hearts had ischemic preconditioning without landiolol. Ischemic preconditioning significantly reduced left ventricular end-diastolic pressure and infarct size compared to the controls. Landiolol alone did not change left ventricular end-diastolic pressure or infarct size, but landiolol 3 µM and ischemic preconditioning decreased left ventricular end-diastolic pressure more than preconditioning alone. These data suggest that pre-ischemic landiolol infusion may enhance the cardioprotective effect of ischemic preconditioning.
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