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The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 52, 1021-1025, Copyright © 1991 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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The limits of cardiac preservation with University of Wisconsin solution

SE Fremes, RK Li, RD Weisel, DA Mickle, RD Furukawa and LC Tumiati
Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Previous studies from this institution have suggested that University of Wisconsin solution is preferred for prolonged cardiac storage and preserves high-energy phosphates better than other storage fluids. University of Wisconsin solution contains adenosine (5 mmol/L), which may maintain the concentration of myocardial adenine nucleotides. Cultures of human adult myocytes were grown from left ventricular biopsy specimens obtained from patients undergoing coronary bypass procedures. Cells (seven to nine dishes per group) were rinsed of culture medium and stored at 0 degrees C in University of Wisconsin solution. Cells were analyzed for adenine nucleotide content after 1, 6, 12, and 24 hours of storage by high-performance liquid chromatography (units = nmol/microgram DNA) and compared with control samples (0 hour). Adenosine concentration increased from 0.03 +/- 0.02 (mean +/- standard deviation) to 1.77 +/- 1.03 by 1 hour (p less than 0.0001, analysis of variance) and remained increased thereafter. Adenosine was largely degraded to inosine (0 hours, 0.03 +/- 0.03; 6 hours, 0.88 +/- 0.56; p less than 0.001) and hypoxanthine (0 hours, 0.01 +/- 0.01; 6 hours, 0.15 +/- 0.09; p = 0.004). Measured levels of xanthine and uric acid were extremely low at all time intervals. Adenosine triphosphate levels were maintained at 1 hour (0 hours, 0.64 +/- 0.38; 1 hour, 0.67 +/- 0.45) but declined thereafter (6 hours, 0.21 +/- 0.21; 12 hours, 0.11 +/- 0.09; 24 hours, 0.04 +/- 0.03; p less than 0.0001). Levels of adenosine diphosphate (p = 0.007) and adenosine monophosphate (p less than 0.05) decreased to approximately 25% of original values by 24 hours.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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