Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 73, Issue 3 925-931, Copyright © 1992 by American Physiological Society

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Effects of ibuprofen and pentoxifylline on the cardiovascular response of normal humans to endotoxin

G. D. Martich, M. M. Parker, R. E. Cunnion and A. F. Suffredini
Critical Care Medicine Department, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.

Endotoxin is a major mediator of the life-threatening cardiovascular dysfunction that characterizes Gram-negative sepsis. In animal models of endotoxemia, pretreatment with ibuprofen or pentoxifylline attenuates some of these cardiovascular changes. To evaluate the effects of these agents on the human cardiovascular response to endotoxemia, hemodynamic variables were measured serially in 24 normal subjects who were given intravenous endotoxin. The subjects were randomized to receive oral ibuprofen (n = 9), pentoxifylline (n = 10), or no medication before endotoxin administration (n = 5). The subjects were volume loaded 3-5 h after endotoxin administration, and hemodynamic measurements were reassessed. Core temperature after endotoxin alone or endotoxin-pentoxifylline approached a maximum at 3 h (greater than or equal to 38.6 degrees C), while the endotoxin-ibuprofen group remained afebrile. At 3 and 5 h, all three groups had significant increases in heart rate, cardiac index, oxygen delivery, and oxygen consumption, while systemic vascular resistance index decreased significantly from baseline. The oxygen extraction ratio remained unchanged. After volume loading, the left ventricular ejection fraction and left ventricular end-diastolic and end-systolic volume indexes did not differ among the groups. The hyperdynamic cardiovascular response to endotoxin in humans occurs in the absence of fever and is not significantly ameliorated by oral cyclooxygenase or phosphodiesterase inhibition.

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