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J Appl Physiol 71: 1441-1446, 1991;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 71, Issue 4 1441-1446, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society

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Effects of flow on recombinant tissue plasminogen activator-induced pulmonary thrombolysis

R. M. Prewitt, S. A. Gu, D. Greenberg, S. M. Chan, U. Schick, H. La Pointe and J. Ducas
Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.

We employed a canine model of pulmonary embolism induced by injection of radioactive blood clots to investigate effects of changes in cardiac output (CO) on recombinant tissue plasminogen activator- (rtPA) induced pulmonary thrombolysis. Rate and extent of thrombolysis were assessed with a gamma camera. Eighteen dogs were studied. Emboli increased mean pulmonary arterial pressure and decreased CO from 2.6 to 1.9 l/min (P less than 0.001). Subsequently, dogs were randomly divided into three groups: group 1 received 0.5 mg/kg of rtPA over 30 min; 30 min before the same dose regimen of rtPA, in the six group 2 dogs, mean CO was increased to approximately 3.25 l/min by opening one systemic arteriovenous fistula; in the six group 3 dogs, before rtPA, mean CO was increased to approximately 4.5 l/min by opening two or three fistulas. After embolization, CO remained low in group 1; the mean 2-h time-averaged CO was 1.8 l/min. CO was much higher in groups 2 and 3 (3.3 and 4.6 l/min, respectively; both P less than 0.001 compared with group 1; and P less than 0.001, group 2 vs. group 3). Compared with group 1, corresponding to the increased flow in groups 2 and 3, rate and extent of pulmonary thrombolysis significantly increased. These results indicate that an increase in flow per se augments rtPA-induced pulmonary thrombolysis. Also, because thrombolysis was similar between groups 2 and 3, these results define an upper limit to the flow-thrombolytic relationship with rtPA.


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