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J Appl Physiol 62: 364-372, 1987;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 62, Issue 1 364-372, Copyright © 1987 by American Physiological Society

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Colorimetric device for measurement of transvascular fluid flux in blood-perfused organs

L. Oppenheimer, W. N. Richardson, D. Bilan and M. Hoppensack

The aim of this study was to develop a device capable of measuring transvascular fluid flux in blood-perfused organs. For any given blood flow through the organ (QT), transvascular flux (QF) can be considered as the fraction of QT exchange. Presumably, QF would change the background concentration of an impermeable tracer residing in the perfusate. Thus QF could be calculated from the relative changes in tracer concentration for any given QT. We have used Blue Dextran (1 g/l of blood) as the reference tracer. Because the minimum molecular weight of Blue Dextran is 2 X 10(6), we anticipated it to behave as an impermeable tracer in most organs. QF was simulated with continuous infusions of plasma, normal saline solution, and a 50% mixture of both. Changes in Blue Dextran concentration were continuously followed colorimetrically by changes in transmission of specific light at a wavelength of 632 nm. Because 632-nm light is affected by hematocrit and O2 saturation changes, two additional wavelengths were used: 815-nm, which is not affected by saturation or Blue Dextran concentration changes, was used to account for changes in hematocrit, and 887-nm specific light, which is not affected by Blue Dextran, served to correct for saturation changes. Red cells could not be used as the reference tracer because of the possibility of hematocrit changes independent of fluid flux (Fahraeus effect). The device so constructed proved capable of measuring rates of fluid infusion in the order of 0.1% of QT with a variability of 10% around the mean.


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