Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 59, Issue 2 305-308, Copyright © 1985 by American Physiological Society

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Measurement of bronchial arterial blood flow and bronchovascular resistance in sheep

N. B. Charan, G. M. Turk and R. Ripley

We studied the bronchial arterial blood flow (Qbr) and bronchial vascular resistance (BVR) in sheep prepared with carotid-bronchial artery shunt. Nine adult sheep were anesthetized, and through a left thoracotomy a heparinized Teflon-tipped Silastic catheter was introduced into the bronchial artery. The other end of the catheter was brought out through the chest wall and through a neck incision was introduced into the carotid artery. A reservoir filled with warm heparinized blood was connected to this shunt. The height of blood column in the reservoir was kept constant at 150 cm by adding more blood. Qbr was measured, after interrupting the carotid-bronchial artery flow, by the changes in the reservoir volume. The bronchial arterial back pressure (Pbr) was measured through the shunt when both carotid-bronchial artery and reservoir Qbr had been temporarily interrupted. The mean Qbr was 34.1 +/- 2.9 (SE) ml/min, Pbr = 17.5 +/- 3.3 cmH2O, BVR = 3.9 +/- 0.5 cmH2O X ml-1 X min, mean pulmonary arterial pressure = 21.5 +/- 3.6 cmH2O, and pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (Ppcw) = 14.3 +/- 3.7 cmH2O. We further studied the effect of increased left atrial pressure on these parameters by inflating a balloon in the left atrium. The left atrial balloon inflation increased Ppcw to 25.3 +/- 3.1 cmH2O, Qbr decreased to 21.8 +/- 2.4 ml/min (P less than 0.05), and BVR increased to 5.5 +/- 1.0 cmH2O.ml-1.min (P less than 0.05).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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