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Ann Thorac Surg 2007;84:247-253
© 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Original Articles: General Thoracic

Pulmonary Macrophage Inhibition and Inhaled Nitric Oxide Attenuate Lung Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury

^a Department of Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
^b Department of Pathology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

Accepted for publication February 14, 2007.

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Gazoni, Department of Surgery, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA 22908 (Email: lmg2x{at}virginia.edu).

Presented at the Basic Science Forum of the Fifty-third Annual Meeting of the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association, Tucson, AZ, Nov 8–11, 2006.

Background: Lung ischemia-reperfusion injury (LIRI) is postulated to occur biphasically. Donor pulmonary macrophages mediate early injury, and neutrophil-dependent injury predominates in the later phase of LIRI. We hypothesized that the biphasic response to LIRI would be attenuated by the administration of gadolinium, a known pulmonary macrophage inhibitor, and inhaled nitric oxide (NO), a pulmonary vasodilator that also interferes with neutrophil chemotaxis.

Methods: Using our isolated, ventilated, blood-perfused rabbit lung model, study groups (n = 10 per group) underwent two hours of reperfusion after 18 hours of cold ischemia (4°C). Lungs received gadolinium alone, or inhaled NO in the presence or absence of macrophage inhibition with gadolinium.

Results: Compared with control animals, pulmonary macrophage inhibition with the concurrent administration of inhaled NO increased lung compliance (p < 0.01) and oxygenation (p = 0.03), while also decreasing pulmonary artery pressure (p < 0.01), myeloperoxidase content by 63% (p < 0.01), wet to dry ratios by 23% (p < 0.01), and lung tissue (p < 0.01) and bronchoalveolar lavage tumor necrosis factor- (TNF-) protein levels (p < 0.01).

Conclusions: The severity of LIRI was most significantly reduced by the inhibition of pulmonary macrophages and the concomitant use of inhaled NO. Pulmonary macrophages, likely through the elaboration of proinflammatory cytokines such as TNF-, not only cause early injury themselves but also prime cells such as neutrophils to injure lungs in the later stages of LIRI. The LIRI was effectively blunted by the reduction of macrophage-dependent injury by gadolinium while inhaled NO also attenuated injury by reducing pulmonary hypertension and minimizing neutrophil sequestration.

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