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Damiani E, Carsetti A, Casarotta E, Domizi R, Scorcella C, Donati A, Adrario E. Microcirculation-guided resuscitation in sepsis: the next frontier? Front Med (Lausanne) 2023; 10:1212321. [PMID: 37476612 PMCID: PMC10354242 DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2023.1212321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2023] [Accepted: 06/20/2023] [Indexed: 07/22/2023] Open
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Microcirculatory dysfunction plays a key role in the pathogenesis of tissue dysoxia and organ failure in sepsis. Sublingual videomicroscopy techniques enable the real-time non-invasive assessment of microvascular blood flow. Alterations in sublingual microvascular perfusion were detected during sepsis and are associated with poor outcome. More importantly, sublingual videomicroscopy allowed to explore the effects of commonly applied resuscitative treatments in septic shock, such as fluids, vasopressors and inotropes, and showed that the optimization of macro-hemodynamic parameters may not be accompanied by an improvement in microvascular perfusion. This loss of "hemodynamic coherence," i.e., the concordance between the response of the macrocirculation and the microcirculation, advocates for the integration of microvascular monitoring in the management of septic patients. Nonetheless, important barriers remain for a widespread use of sublingual videomicroscopy in the clinical practice. In this review, we discuss the actual limitations of this technique and future developments that may allow an easier and faster evaluation of the microcirculation at the bedside, and propose a role for sublingual microvascular monitoring in guiding and titrating resuscitative therapies in sepsis.
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- Elisa Damiani
- Anesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Public Health, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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- Anesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Public Health, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Public Health, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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- Anesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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- Anesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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- Anesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Public Health, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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- Anesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Public Health, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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Mendelson AA, Erickson D, Villar R. The role of the microcirculation and integrative cardiovascular physiology in the pathogenesis of ICU-acquired weakness. Front Physiol 2023; 14:1170429. [PMID: 37234410 PMCID: PMC10206327 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2023.1170429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2023] [Accepted: 04/28/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023] Open
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Skeletal muscle dysfunction after critical illness, defined as ICU-acquired weakness (ICU-AW), is a complex and multifactorial syndrome that contributes significantly to long-term morbidity and reduced quality of life for ICU survivors and caregivers. Historically, research in this field has focused on pathological changes within the muscle itself, without much consideration for their in vivo physiological environment. Skeletal muscle has the widest range of oxygen metabolism of any organ, and regulation of oxygen supply with tissue demand is a fundamental requirement for locomotion and muscle function. During exercise, this process is exquisitely controlled and coordinated by the cardiovascular, respiratory, and autonomic systems, and also within the skeletal muscle microcirculation and mitochondria as the terminal site of oxygen exchange and utilization. This review highlights the potential contribution of the microcirculation and integrative cardiovascular physiology to the pathogenesis of ICU-AW. An overview of skeletal muscle microvascular structure and function is provided, as well as our understanding of microvascular dysfunction during the acute phase of critical illness; whether microvascular dysfunction persists after ICU discharge is currently not known. Molecular mechanisms that regulate crosstalk between endothelial cells and myocytes are discussed, including the role of the microcirculation in skeletal muscle atrophy, oxidative stress, and satellite cell biology. The concept of integrated control of oxygen delivery and utilization during exercise is introduced, with evidence of physiological dysfunction throughout the oxygen delivery pathway - from mouth to mitochondria - causing reduced exercise capacity in patients with chronic disease (e.g., heart failure, COPD). We suggest that objective and perceived weakness after critical illness represents a physiological failure of oxygen supply-demand matching - both globally throughout the body and locally within skeletal muscle. Lastly, we highlight the value of standardized cardiopulmonary exercise testing protocols for evaluating fitness in ICU survivors, and the application of near-infrared spectroscopy for directly measuring skeletal muscle oxygenation, representing potential advancements in ICU-AW research and rehabilitation.
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- Asher A. Mendelson
- Section of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Section of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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Jahandideh F, Panahi S, Noble RMN, Gragasin FS, Khadaroo RG, Macala KF, Bourque SL. Characterization of Systemic and Regional Hemodynamics and Vascular Dysfunction in Mice with Fecal Induced Peritonitis. Biomedicines 2022; 10:biomedicines10020470. [PMID: 35203689 PMCID: PMC8962278 DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines10020470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2022] [Revised: 02/08/2022] [Accepted: 02/16/2022] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Sepsis is associated with circulatory dysfunction contributing to disturbed blood flow and organ injury. Decreased organ perfusion in sepsis is attributed, in part, to the loss of vasoregulatory mechanisms. Identifying which vascular beds are most susceptible to dysfunction is important for monitoring the recovery of organ function and guiding interventions. This study aimed to investigate the development of vascular dysfunction as sepsis progressed to septic shock. Anesthetized C57Bl/6 mice were instrumented with a fiberoptic pressure sensor in the carotid artery for blood pressure measurements. In subgroups of mice, regional blood flow measurements were taken by positioning a perivascular flow probe around either the left carotid, left renal, or superior mesenteric arteries. Hemodynamic parameters and their responsiveness to bolus doses of vasoactive drugs were recorded prior to and continuously after injection of fecal slurry (1.3 mg/g body weight) for 4 h. Fecal slurry-induced peritonitis reduced mean arterial pressure (62.7 ± 2.4 mmHg vs. 37.5 ± 3.2 mmHg in vehicle and septic mice, respectively), impaired cardiac function, and eventually reduced organ blood flow (71.9%, 66.8%, and 65.1% in the superior mesenteric, renal, and carotid arteries, respectively). The mesenteric vasculature exhibited dysregulation before the renal and carotid arteries, and this underlying dysfunction preceded the blood pressure decline and impaired organ blood flow.
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- Forough Jahandideh
- Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G3, Canada; (F.J.); (S.P.); (F.S.G.); (K.F.M.)
- Women and Children’s Health Research Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 1C9, Canada;
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- Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G3, Canada; (F.J.); (S.P.); (F.S.G.); (K.F.M.)
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- Women and Children’s Health Research Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 1C9, Canada;
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G3, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G3, Canada; (F.J.); (S.P.); (F.S.G.); (K.F.M.)
- Women and Children’s Health Research Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 1C9, Canada;
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G3, Canada;
- Department of Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G3, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G3, Canada; (F.J.); (S.P.); (F.S.G.); (K.F.M.)
- Women and Children’s Health Research Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 1C9, Canada;
- Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G3, Canada;
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- Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G3, Canada; (F.J.); (S.P.); (F.S.G.); (K.F.M.)
- Women and Children’s Health Research Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 1C9, Canada;
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G3, Canada
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G3, Canada
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +1-780-492-6000
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Eckrich J, Ruan Y, Jiang S, Frenis K, Rodriguez-Blanco G, Maas AP, Jimenez MTB, Kuntic M, Oelze M, Hahad O, Li H, Steven S, Strieth S, von Kriegsheim A, Münzel T, Daiber A, Gericke A, Ernst BP. In vivo analysis of noise dependent activation of white blood cells and microvascular dysfunction in mice. MethodsX 2021; 8:101540. [PMID: 34754808 PMCID: PMC8563683 DOI: 10.1016/j.mex.2021.101540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2021] [Accepted: 10/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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This article contains supporting information on data collection for the research article entitled “Aircraft noise exposure drives the activation of white blood cells and induces microvascular dysfunction in mice” by Eckrich et al. We found that noise-induced stress triggered microvascular dysfunction via involvement of innate immune-derived reactive oxygen species. In this article, we present the instrumentation of mice with dorsal skinfold chambers for in vivo microscopic imaging of blood flow, interaction of leukocytes with the vascular wall (also by fluorescent labelling of blood cells) and vessel diameter. In addition, we explain the preparation of cerebral arterioles for measurement of vascular reactivity in vitro.visualization of noise-dependent effects in dorsal skinfold chamber. in vivo microscopy of noise-dependent activation of white blood cells. analysis of noise-dependent microvascular dysfunction in dorsal skinfold chamber and cannulated cerebral arterioles.
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- Jonas Eckrich
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University Medical Center Bonn (UKB), Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology, Cardiology I, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology, Cardiology I, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology, Cardiology I, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology, Cardiology I, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology, Cardiology I, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.,German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Rhine-Main, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Pharmacology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology, Cardiology I, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.,German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Rhine-Main, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University Medical Center Bonn (UKB), Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology, Cardiology I, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.,German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Rhine-Main, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology, Cardiology I, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.,German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Rhine-Main, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
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Zhang J, Ma L, Hashimoto Y, Wan X, Shan J, Qu Y, Hashimoto K. (R)-Ketamine ameliorates lethal inflammatory responses and multi-organ injury in mice induced by cecum ligation and puncture. Life Sci 2021; 284:119882. [PMID: 34384829 DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2021.119882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2021] [Revised: 07/23/2021] [Accepted: 08/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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AIMS Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction syndrome arising from infection-induced uncontrolled systemic inflammatory responses. Patients surviving severe sepsis also exhibit increased mortality due to enhanced vulnerability to infections. In this study, we examined whether (R)-ketamine could prevent against lethal sepsis-induced systemic inflammation and inflammatory organ injury. MAIN METHODS Septic model was induced by cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) surgery on adult mice. (R)-ketamine (10 or 15 mg/kg) was administrated intraperitoneally (i.p.) 24 h before and/or immediately after CLP. KEY FINDINGS Combined prophylactic and therapeutic use of (R)-ketamine (10 mg/kg), as well as either prophylactic or therapeutic use of (R)-ketamine at a single dose of 15 mg/kg did not reduce 14-day mortality after CLP. However, combined prophylactic and therapeutic use of (R)-ketamine (15 mg/kg) significantly increased 14-day survival rate, attenuated sepsis-induced marked drop in the rectal temperature and increase in the plasma levels of inflammatory cytokines [i.e., interleukin (IL)-6, IL-17A, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, IL-1β, and IL-10] 12 h after CLP. Furthermore, (R)-ketamine alleviated sepsis-induced increase in the organ injury markers such as alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), myocardial kinase (CK-MB), and creatinine 24 h after CLP. Moreover, the increased lung wet/dry weight ratio, pulmonary morphological injury and the pulmonary levels of inflammatory cytokines were also attenuated by (R)-ketamine. SIGNIFICANCE Combined prophylactic and therapeutic use of (R)-ketamine could attenuate systemic inflammation and inflammatory multi-organ injury in mice after CLP-induced lethal sepsis. Therefore, (R)-ketamine would be a potential prophylactic and therapeutic drug for patients prone to sepsis.
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- Jiancheng Zhang
- Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Chiba University Center for Forensic Mental Health, Chiba 260-8670, Japan; Department of Critical Care Medicine, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, PR China
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- Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Chiba University Center for Forensic Mental Health, Chiba 260-8670, Japan; Department of Anesthesiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430022, PR China
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- Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Chiba University Center for Forensic Mental Health, Chiba 260-8670, Japan; Department of Respirology, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba 260-8670, Japan
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- Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Chiba University Center for Forensic Mental Health, Chiba 260-8670, Japan
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- Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Chiba University Center for Forensic Mental Health, Chiba 260-8670, Japan
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- Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Chiba University Center for Forensic Mental Health, Chiba 260-8670, Japan
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- Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Chiba University Center for Forensic Mental Health, Chiba 260-8670, Japan.
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Prabhakar H, Ali Z. Intensive Care Management of the Neuromuscular Patient. TEXTBOOK OF NEUROANESTHESIA AND NEUROCRITICAL CARE 2019. [PMCID: PMC7120052 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-3390-3_5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Neuromuscular emergencies are a distinct group of acute neurological diseases with distinct characteristic presentations. Patients who suffer from this group of diseases are at immediate risk of losing protection of their native airway as well as aspirating orogastric contents. This is secondary to weakness of the muscles of the oropharynx and respiratory muscles. Although some neuromuscular emergencies such as myasthenia gravis or Guillain-Barré syndrome are well understood, others such as critical illness myopathy and neuropathy are less well characterized. In this chapter, we have discussed the pathophysiology, diagnostic evaluation, and management options in patients who are admitted to the intensive care unit. We have also emphasized the importance of a thorough understanding of the use of pharmacological anesthetic agents in this patient population.
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- Hemanshu Prabhakar
- Department of Neuroanaesthesiology and Critical Care, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
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- Division of Neuroanesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir India
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The Effect of Sepsis on the Erythrocyte. Int J Mol Sci 2017; 18:ijms18091932. [PMID: 28885563 PMCID: PMC5618581 DOI: 10.3390/ijms18091932] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2017] [Revised: 08/31/2017] [Accepted: 09/04/2017] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Sepsis induces a wide range of effects on the red blood cell (RBC). Some of the effects including altered metabolism and decreased 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate are preventable with appropriate treatment, whereas others, including decreased erythrocyte deformability and redistribution of membrane phospholipids, appear to be permanent, and factors in RBC clearance. Here, we review the effects of sepsis on the erythrocyte, including changes in RBC volume, metabolism and hemoglobin's affinity for oxygen, morphology, RBC deformability (an early indicator of sepsis), antioxidant status, intracellular Ca2+ homeostasis, membrane proteins, membrane phospholipid redistribution, clearance and RBC O₂-dependent adenosine triphosphate efflux (an RBC hypoxia signaling mechanism involved in microvascular autoregulation). We also consider the causes of these effects by host mediated oxidant stress and bacterial virulence factors. Additionally, we consider the altered erythrocyte microenvironment due to sepsis induced microvascular dysregulation and speculate on the possible effects of RBC autoxidation. In future, a better understanding of the mechanisms involved in sepsis induced erythrocyte pathophysiology and clearance may guide improved sepsis treatments. Evidence that small molecule antioxidants protect the erythrocyte from loss of deformability, and more importantly improve septic patient outcome suggest further research in this area is warranted. While not generally considered a critical factor in sepsis, erythrocytes (and especially a smaller subpopulation) appear to be highly susceptible to sepsis induced injury, provide an early warning signal of sepsis and are a factor in the microvascular dysfunction that has been associated with organ dysfunction.
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Ospina-Tascón GA, García Marin AF, Echeverri GJ, Bermudez WF, Madriñán-Navia H, Valencia JD, Quiñones E, Rodríguez F, Marulanda A, Arango-Dávila CA, Bruhn A, Hernández G, De Backer D. Effects of dobutamine on intestinal microvascular blood flow heterogeneity and O 2 extraction during septic shock. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2017; 122:1406-1417. [PMID: 28336538 PMCID: PMC5494430 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00886.2016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2016] [Revised: 03/16/2017] [Accepted: 03/16/2017] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Derangements of microvascular blood flow distribution might contribute to disturbing O2 extraction by peripheral tissues. We evaluated the dynamic relationships between the mesenteric O2 extraction ratio ([Formula: see text]) and the heterogeneity of microvascular blood flow at the gut and sublingual mucosa during the development and resuscitation of septic shock in a swine model of fecal peritonitis. Jejunal-villi and sublingual microcirculation were evaluated using a portable intravital-microscopy technique. Simultaneously, we obtained arterial, mixed-venous, and mesenteric blood gases, and jejunal-tonometric measurements. During resuscitation, pigs were randomly allocated to a fixed dose of dobutamine (5 µg·kg-1·min-1) or placebo while three sham models with identical monitoring served as controls. At the time of shock, we observed a significant decreased proportion of perfused intestinal-villi (villi-PPV) and sublingual percentage of perfused small vessels (SL-PPV), paralleling an increase in [Formula: see text] in both dobutamine and placebo groups. After starting resuscitation, villi-PPV and SL-PPV significantly increased in the dobutamine group with subsequent improvement of functional capillary density, whereas [Formula: see text] exhibited a corresponding significant decrease (repeated-measures ANOVA, P = 0.02 and P = 0.04 for time × group interactions and intergroup differences for villi-PPV and [Formula: see text], respectively). Variations in villi-PPV were paralleled by variations in [Formula: see text] (R2 = 0.88, P < 0.001) and these, in turn, by mesenteric lactate changes (R2 = 0.86, P < 0.001). There were no significant differences in cardiac output and systemic O2 delivery throughout the experiment. In conclusion, dynamic changes in microvascular blood flow heterogeneity at jejunal mucosa are closely related to the mesenteric O2 extraction ratio, suggesting a crucial role for microvascular blood flow distribution on O2 uptake during development and resuscitation from septic shock.NEW & NOTEWORTHY Our observations suggest that dynamic changes in the heterogeneity of microvascular blood flow at the gut mucosa are closely related to mesenteric O2 extraction, thus supporting the role of decreasing functional capillary density and increased intercapillary distances on alterations of O2 uptake during development and resuscitation from septic shock. Addition of a low-fixed dose of dobutamine might reverse such flow heterogeneity, improving microcirculatory flow distribution and tissue O2 consumption.
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- Gustavo A Ospina-Tascón
- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Fundación Valle del Lili, Universidad ICESI, Cali, Colombia; .,Universidad del Valle, Escuela de Ciencias Básicas, Cali, Colombia
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Fundación Valle del Lili, Universidad ICESI, Cali, Colombia
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Fundación Valle del Lili, Universidad ICESI, Cali, Colombia
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Fundación Valle del Lili, Universidad ICESI, Cali, Colombia
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Fundación Valle del Lili, Universidad ICESI, Cali, Colombia
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Fundación Valle del Lili, Universidad ICESI, Cali, Colombia
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Fundación Valle del Lili, Universidad ICESI, Cali, Colombia
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Fundación Valle del Lili, Universidad ICESI, Cali, Colombia
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Fundación Valle del Lili, Universidad ICESI, Cali, Colombia
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Fundación Valle del Lili, Universidad ICESI, Cali, Colombia.,Universidad del Valle, Escuela de Ciencias Básicas, Cali, Colombia
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- Departamento de Medicina Intensiva, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile; and
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- Departamento de Medicina Intensiva, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile; and
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- Intensive Care Department, CHIREC Hospitals, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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Chisholm KI, Ida KK, Davies AL, Tachtsidis I, Papkovsky DB, Dyson A, Singer M, Duchen MR, Smith KJ. Hypothermia protects brain mitochondrial function from hypoxemia in a murine model of sepsis. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2016; 36:1955-1964. [PMID: 26661160 PMCID: PMC5094296 DOI: 10.1177/0271678x15606457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2015] [Accepted: 07/14/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
Abstract
Sepsis is commonly associated with brain dysfunction, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear, although mitochondrial dysfunction and microvascular abnormalities have been implicated. We therefore assessed whether cerebral mitochondrial dysfunction during systemic endotoxemia in mice increased mitochondrial sensitivity to a further bioenergetic insult (hyoxemia), and whether hypothermia could improve outcome. Mice (C57bl/6) were injected intraperitoneally with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) (5 mg/kg; n = 85) or saline (0.01 ml/g; n = 47). Six, 24 and 48 h later, we used confocal imaging in vivo to assess cerebral mitochondrial redox potential and cortical oxygenation in response to changes in inspired oxygen. The fraction of inspired oxygen (FiO2) at which the cortical redox potential changed was compared between groups. In a subset of animals, spontaneous hypothermia was maintained or controlled hypothermia induced during imaging. Decreasing FiO2 resulted in a more reduced cerebral redox state around veins, but preserved oxidation around arteries. This pattern appeared at a higher FiO2 in LPS-injected animals, suggesting an increased sensitivity of cortical mitochondria to hypoxemia. This increased sensitivity was accompanied by a decrease in cortical oxygenation, but was attenuated by hypothermia. These results suggest that systemic endotoxemia influences cortical oxygenation and mitochondrial function, and that therapeutic hypothermia can be protective.
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- Institute of Neurology, University College London, UK.,Anaesthesiology LIM-8, Medical School, University of São Paulo, Brazil
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- Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London, UK
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- School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork, Ireland
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- Bloomsbury Institute of Intensive Care Medicine, University College London, UK
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- Bloomsbury Institute of Intensive Care Medicine, University College London, UK
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Damiani E, Ince C, Orlando F, Pierpaoli E, Cirioni O, Giacometti A, Mocchegiani F, Pelaia P, Provinciali M, Donati A. Effects of the Infusion of 4% or 20% Human Serum Albumin on the Skeletal Muscle Microcirculation in Endotoxemic Rats. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0151005. [PMID: 26942605 PMCID: PMC4778913 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0151005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2015] [Accepted: 02/21/2016] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Background Sepsis-induced microcirculatory alterations contribute to tissue hypoxia and organ dysfunction. In addition to its plasma volume expanding activity, human serum albumin (HSA) has anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory properties and may have a protective role in the microcirculation during sepsis. The concentration of HSA infused may influence these effects. We compared the microcirculatory effects of the infusion of 4% and 20% HSA in an experimental model of sepsis. Methods Adult male Wistar rats were equipped with arterial and venous catheters and received an intravenous infusion of lipopolysaccharide (LPS, serotype O127:B8, 10 mg/kg over 30 minutes) or vehicle (SHAM, n = 6). Two hours later, endotoxemic animals were randomized to receive 10 mL/kg of either 4% HSA (LPS+4%HSA, n = 6), 20% HSA (LPS+20%HSA, n = 6) or 0.9% NaCl (LPS+0.9%NaCl, n = 6). No fluids were given to an additional 6 animals (LPS). Vessel density and perfusion were assessed in the skeletal muscle microcirculation with sidestream dark field videomicroscopy at baseline (t0), 2 hours after LPS injection (t1), after HSA infusion (t2) and 1 hour later (t3). The mean arterial pressure (MAP) and heart rate were recorded. Serum endothelin-1 was measured at t2. Results MAP was stable over time in all groups. The microcirculatory parameters were significantly altered in endotoxemic animals at t1. The infusion of both 4% and 20% HSA similarly increased the perfused vessel density and blood flow velocity and decreased the flow heterogeneity to control values. Microvascular perfusion was preserved in the LPS+20%HSA group at t3, whereas alterations reappeared in the LPS+4%HSA group. Conclusions In a rat model of normotensive endotoxemia, the infusion of 4% or 20% HSA produced a similar acute improvement in the microvascular perfusion in otherwise unresuscitated animals.
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- Elisa Damiani
- Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Public Health, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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- Department of Translational Physiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Advanced Technology Center for Aging Research, Scientific Technological Area, IRCCS-INRCA, Ancona, Italy
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- Advanced Technology Center for Aging Research, Scientific Technological Area, IRCCS-INRCA, Ancona, Italy
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- Institute of Infectious Disease and Public Health, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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- Institute of Infectious Disease and Public Health, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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- Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Public Health, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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- Advanced Technology Center for Aging Research, Scientific Technological Area, IRCCS-INRCA, Ancona, Italy
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- Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Public Health, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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Friedrich O, Reid MB, Van den Berghe G, Vanhorebeek I, Hermans G, Rich MM, Larsson L. The Sick and the Weak: Neuropathies/Myopathies in the Critically Ill. Physiol Rev 2015; 95:1025-109. [PMID: 26133937 PMCID: PMC4491544 DOI: 10.1152/physrev.00028.2014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 216] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Critical illness polyneuropathies (CIP) and myopathies (CIM) are common complications of critical illness. Several weakness syndromes are summarized under the term intensive care unit-acquired weakness (ICUAW). We propose a classification of different ICUAW forms (CIM, CIP, sepsis-induced, steroid-denervation myopathy) and pathophysiological mechanisms from clinical and animal model data. Triggers include sepsis, mechanical ventilation, muscle unloading, steroid treatment, or denervation. Some ICUAW forms require stringent diagnostic features; CIM is marked by membrane hypoexcitability, severe atrophy, preferential myosin loss, ultrastructural alterations, and inadequate autophagy activation while myopathies in pure sepsis do not reproduce marked myosin loss. Reduced membrane excitability results from depolarization and ion channel dysfunction. Mitochondrial dysfunction contributes to energy-dependent processes. Ubiquitin proteasome and calpain activation trigger muscle proteolysis and atrophy while protein synthesis is impaired. Myosin loss is more pronounced than actin loss in CIM. Protein quality control is altered by inadequate autophagy. Ca(2+) dysregulation is present through altered Ca(2+) homeostasis. We highlight clinical hallmarks, trigger factors, and potential mechanisms from human studies and animal models that allow separation of risk factors that may trigger distinct mechanisms contributing to weakness. During critical illness, altered inflammatory (cytokines) and metabolic pathways deteriorate muscle function. ICUAW prevention/treatment is limited, e.g., tight glycemic control, delaying nutrition, and early mobilization. Future challenges include identification of primary/secondary events during the time course of critical illness, the interplay between membrane excitability, bioenergetic failure and differential proteolysis, and finding new therapeutic targets by help of tailored animal models.
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- O Friedrich
- Institute of Medical Biotechnology, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany; College of Health and Human Performance, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; Clinical Department and Laboratory of Intensive Care Medicine, Division of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio; and Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Clinical Neurophysiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Medical Biotechnology, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany; College of Health and Human Performance, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; Clinical Department and Laboratory of Intensive Care Medicine, Division of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio; and Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Clinical Neurophysiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Medical Biotechnology, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany; College of Health and Human Performance, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; Clinical Department and Laboratory of Intensive Care Medicine, Division of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio; and Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Clinical Neurophysiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Medical Biotechnology, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany; College of Health and Human Performance, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; Clinical Department and Laboratory of Intensive Care Medicine, Division of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio; and Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Clinical Neurophysiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Medical Biotechnology, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany; College of Health and Human Performance, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; Clinical Department and Laboratory of Intensive Care Medicine, Division of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio; and Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Clinical Neurophysiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Medical Biotechnology, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany; College of Health and Human Performance, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; Clinical Department and Laboratory of Intensive Care Medicine, Division of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio; and Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Clinical Neurophysiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Medical Biotechnology, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany; College of Health and Human Performance, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; Clinical Department and Laboratory of Intensive Care Medicine, Division of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio; and Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Clinical Neurophysiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Skibsted S, Arnold R, Sherwin R, Singh S, Lundy D, Nelson T, Puskarich MA, Trzeciak S, Jones AE, Shapiro NI. The association of near infrared spectroscopy-derived StO2 measurements and biomarkers of endothelial activation in sepsis. Intern Emerg Med 2013; 8:529-36. [PMID: 23824446 DOI: 10.1007/s11739-013-0973-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2013] [Accepted: 06/24/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) may be utilized in conjunction with a vascular occlusion test to quantify a tissue bed's ability to re-oxygenate by measuring continuous tissue oxygen saturation recovery rate. We hypothesize that NIRS recovery slope will be associated with expression of endothelial biomarkers, thus, making it a feasible bedside surrogate for assessing endothelial activation/dysfunction in patients with sepsis. A secondary analysis of a prospective, multicenter, observational study was done on a convenience sample of adult patients at four university emergency departments consisting of patients with septic shock, sepsis without shock and patients without infection. At enrollment we measured the NIRS-derived measurements and collected plasma to assay biomarkers of endothelial activation. 186 patients were enrolled in the study. The mean age was 63 (± 16) years with 60 % male gender. Univariate analysis assessing the linear relationship between the recovery slope with endothelial biomarkers, found a weak but statistical significant association between NIRS recovery slope and soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase-1 (sFLT-1) and tPAI-1 (r = -0.08, p < 0.0001 and r = -0.06, p = 0.002). When adjusting for diabetes, age and sequential organ failure assessment score at enrollment, only sFLT-1 persisted having a statistically significant association (r = -0.04, p = 0.01). We found a weak, but statistically significant relationship between NIRS-derived measurements and biomarkers of endothelial activation/dysfunction in patients with sepsis. This study fails to support the use of NIRS-derived measurements as a clinical or research tool to identify patients with endothelial cell activation/dysfunction and informs researchers that this is not a robust option for identifying this lesion at the bedside.
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- Simon Skibsted
- Department of Emergency Medicine and Center for Vascular Biology Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
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Microvascular and macrovascular flow are uncoupled in early polymicrobial sepsis. Br J Anaesth 2012; 108:973-8. [DOI: 10.1093/bja/aes093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Critical illness polyneuropathy and myopathy: a major cause of muscle weakness and paralysis. Lancet Neurol 2011; 10:931-41. [PMID: 21939902 DOI: 10.1016/s1474-4422(11)70178-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 382] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Critical illness polyneuropathy (CIP) and myopathy (CIM) are complications of critical illness that present with muscle weakness and failure to wean from the ventilator. In addition to prolonging mechanical ventilation and hospitalisation, CIP and CIM increase hospital mortality in patients who are critically ill and cause chronic disability in survivors of critical illness. Structural changes associated with CIP and CIM include axonal nerve degeneration, muscle myosin loss, and muscle necrosis. Functional changes can cause electrical inexcitability of nerves and muscles with reversible muscle weakness. Microvascular changes and cytopathic hypoxia might disrupt energy supply and use. An acquired sodium channelopathy causing reduced muscle membrane and nerve excitability is a possible unifying mechanism underlying CIP and CIM. The diagnosis of CIP, CIM, or combined CIP and CIM relies on clinical, electrophysiological, and muscle biopsy investigations. Control of hyperglycaemia might reduce the severity of these complications of critical illness, and early rehabilitation in the intensive care unit might improve the functional recovery and independence of patients.
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Lawendy AR, Sanders DW, Bihari A, Parry N, Gray D, Badhwar A. Compartment syndrome-induced microvascular dysfunction: an experimental rodent model. Can J Surg 2011; 54:194-200. [PMID: 21443836 DOI: 10.1503/cjs.048309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Acute compartment syndrome (CS) is a limb-threatening disease that results from increased intracompartmental pressure. The pathophysiologic mechanisms by which this occurs are poorly understood. This study was designed to measure the effects of increased intracompartmental pressure on skeletal muscle microcirculation, inflammation and cellular injury using intravital videomicroscopy (IVVM) in a clinically relevant small animal model. METHODS We induced CS in 10 male Wistar rats (175-250 g), using a saline infusion technique. Intracompartmental pressure was controlled between 30 and 40 mm Hg and maintained for 45 minutes. After fasciotomy, the extensor digitorum longus muscle was visualized using IVVM, and perfusion was quantified. We quantified leukocyte recruitment to measure the inflammatory response. We measured muscle cellular injury using a differential fluorescent staining technique. RESULTS The number of nonperfused capillaries increased from 12.7 (standard error of the mean [SEM] 1.4 ) per mm in the control group to 30.0 (SEM 6.7) per mm following 45 minutes of elevated intracompartmental pressure (CS group; p = 0.031). The mean number of continuously perfused capillaries (and SEM) decreased from 78.4 (3.2) per mm in the control group to 41.4 (6.9) per mm in the CS group (p = 0.001). The proportion of injured cells increased from 5.0% (SEM 2.1%) in the control group to 16.3% (SEM 6.8%) in the CS group (p = 0.006). The mean number of activated leukocytes increased from 3.6 (SEM 0.7) per 100 μm(2) in the control group to 8.6 (SEM 1.8) per 100 μm(2) in the CS group (p = 0.033). CONCLUSION Early CS-induced microvascular dysfunction resulted in a decrease in nutritive capillary perfusion and an increase in cellular injury and was associated with a severe acute inflammatory component.
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Wester T, Häggblad E, Awan ZA, Barratt-Due A, Kvernebo M, Halvorsen PS, Mollnes TE, Kvernebo K. Assessments of skin and tongue microcirculation reveals major changes in porcine sepsis. Clin Physiol Funct Imaging 2010; 31:151-8. [PMID: 21087397 DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097x.2010.00994.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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AIM To examine the relation between central hemodynamics, clinical severity and microvascular findings in tongue and skin during sepsis. MATERIALS AND METHODS Skin and tongue microcirculation was examined using laser Doppler and video microscopy techniques before and 200 min after inducing sepsis in pigs (n=6) by inactivated Neisseria meningitides and in two control animals. RESULTS All infected pigs developed clinical signs of sepsis. Pericapillary bleedings developed in the tongue in the two pigs with the most severe disease. Capillary density increased in the groin skin in infected pigs after 200 min as compared to baseline (P<0·02). In the same period, mean capillary flow velocity was reduced in groin skin and tongue in septic pigs (P<0·02). At 200 min a fraction of capillaries had developed 'no flow' or 'brisk flow', patterns hardly seen at baseline. Laser Doppler perfusion was reduced in ear and tongue after 200 min (P<0·02 for both). The described pathology was more pronounced in the pigs with the most severe sepsis. CONCLUSION Capillary bleedings may be used as an early indication of severe sepsis. Examination of skin and tongue microcirculations may be used to characterize severity of sepsis and possibly to assess effect of treatment.
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- Torjus Wester
- Department of Cardio-thoracic surgery, Oslo Unversity Hospital and University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
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Taccone FS, Su F, Pierrakos C, He X, James S, Dewitte O, Vincent JL, De Backer D. Cerebral microcirculation is impaired during sepsis: an experimental study. CRITICAL CARE : THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE CRITICAL CARE FORUM 2010; 14:R140. [PMID: 20667108 PMCID: PMC2945121 DOI: 10.1186/cc9205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2010] [Revised: 06/08/2010] [Accepted: 07/28/2010] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Introduction Pathophysiology of brain dysfunction due to sepsis remains poorly understood. Cerebral microcirculatory alterations may play a role; however, experimental data are scarce. This study sought to investigate whether the cerebral microcirculation is altered in a clinically relevant animal model of septic shock. Methods Fifteen anesthetized, invasively monitored, and mechanically ventilated female sheep were allocated to a sham procedure (n = 5) or sepsis (n = 10), in which peritonitis was induced by intra-abdominal injection of autologous faeces. Animals were observed until spontaneous death or for a maximum of 20 hours. In addition to global hemodynamic assessment, the microcirculation of the cerebral cortex was evaluated using Sidestream Dark-Field (SDF) videomicroscopy at baseline, 6 hours, 12 hours and at shock onset. At least five images of 20 seconds each from separate areas were recorded at each time point and stored under a random number to be analyzed, using a semi-quantitative method, by an investigator blinded to time and condition. Results All septic animals developed a hyperdynamic state associated with organ dysfunction and, ultimately, septic shock. In the septic animals, there was a progressive decrease in cerebral total perfused vessel density (from 5.9 ± 0.9 at baseline to 4.8 ± 0.7 n/mm at shock onset, P = 0.009), functional capillary density (from 2.8 ± 0.4 to 2.1 ± 0.7 n/mm, P = 0.049), the proportion of small perfused vessels (from 95 ± 3 to 85 ± 8%, P = 0.02), and the total number of perfused capillaries (from 22.7 ± 2.7 to 17.5 ± 5.2 n/mm, P = 0.04). There were no significant changes in microcirculatory flow index over time. In sham animals, the cerebral microcirculation was unaltered during the study period. Conclusions In this model of peritonitis, the cerebral microcirculation was impaired during sepsis, with a significant reduction in perfused small vessels at the onset of septic shock. These alterations may play a role in the pathogenesis of septic encephalopathy.
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- Fabio Silvio Taccone
- Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Route de Lennik 808, 1070 Bruxelles, Belgium.
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Mohammed I, Nonas SA. Mechanisms, detection, and potential management of microcirculatory disturbances in sepsis. Crit Care Clin 2010; 26:393-408, table of contents. [PMID: 20381728 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccc.2010.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Despite improvements in resuscitation and treatment of sepsis, the morbidity and mortality remain unacceptably high. Microvascular dysfunction has been shown to play a significant role in the pathogenesis of sepsis and is a potential new target in the management of sepsis. Clinical studies, aided by new techniques that allow for real-time assessment of the microcirculation, have shown that disturbances in microcirculatory flow are common in sepsis and correlate with worse outcomes. Bedside measurement of microcirculatory perfusion has become simpler and more accessible, and may provide key insights into prognosis in sepsis and guide future therapeutics, much like mean arterial pressure (MAP), lactate, and mixed central oxygen saturation (SvO(2)) do now. The authors review here the role of microcirculatory dysfunction in sepsis and its potential role as a therapeutic target in sepsis.
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- Imran Mohammed
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Oregon Health and Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, UHN-67, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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Weidlich K, Kroth J, Nussbaum C, Hiedl S, Bauer A, Christ F, Genzel-Boroviczeny O. Changes in microcirculation as early markers for infection in preterm infants--an observational prospective study. Pediatr Res 2009; 66:461-5. [PMID: 19581833 DOI: 10.1203/pdr.0b013e3181b3b1f6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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In adults with severe sepsis, the disturbances of the sublingual microcirculation can be quantified with orthogonal polarization spectral imaging. We investigated the cutaneous microcirculation of preterm infants with proven infection (PosInf) and with suspected but unproven infection (NegInf). In 25 infants, orthogonal polarization spectral images were obtained daily, videos of the images were blinded, and analyzed off-line. Functional small vessel density (FSVD) was prospectively calculated from day 3 to day 30 of life. There were 17 episodes of proven and nine episodes of suspected but unproven nosocomial late onset infection. Four infants remained healthy. The data were analyzed for the 5 d before the start of antibiotics (day -5 until day -1). FSVD varied widely, but in the PosInf-group, we found a 10% decline from day -5 to day -1 (p = 0.013). There was no significant change over time in the NegInf-group (p = 0.58). Thus, in infants with proven infection, FSVD decreases already 1 d before changes in laboratory parameters. However, these changes in FSVD during infection are not represented by absolute values, but must be identified by daily intraindividual observation.
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- Kathrin Weidlich
- Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital Munich, Munich Bavaria 80804, Germany
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Doi K, Yuen PST, Eisner C, Hu X, Leelahavanichkul A, Schnermann J, Star RA. Reduced production of creatinine limits its use as marker of kidney injury in sepsis. J Am Soc Nephrol 2009; 20:1217-21. [PMID: 19389851 DOI: 10.1681/asn.2008060617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 267] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Although diagnosis and staging of acute kidney injury uses serum creatinine, acute changes in creatinine lag behind both renal injury and recovery. The risk for mortality increases when acute kidney injury accompanies sepsis; therefore, we sought to explore the limitations of serum creatinine in this setting. In mice, induction of sepsis by cecal ligation and puncture in bilaterally nephrectomized mice increased markers of nonrenal organ injury and serum TNF-alpha. Serum creatinine, however, was significantly lower in septic animals than in animals subjected to bilateral nephrectomy and sham cecal ligation and puncture. Under these conditions treatment with chloroquine decreased nonrenal organ injury markers but paradoxically increased serum creatinine. Sepsis dramatically decreased production of creatinine in nephrectomized mice, without changes in body weight, hematocrit, or extracellular fluid volume. In conclusion, sepsis reduces production of creatinine, which blunts the increase in serum creatinine after sepsis, potentially limiting the early detection of acute kidney injury. This may partially explain why small absolute increases in serum creatinine levels are associated with poor clinical outcomes. These data support the need for new biomarkers that provide better measures of renal injury, especially in patients with sepsis.
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- Kent Doi
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1268, USA
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Link between coagulation abnormalities and microcirculatory dysfunction in critically ill patients. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol 2009; 22:150-4. [DOI: 10.1097/aco.0b013e328328d1a1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Bolon ML, Peng T, Kidder GM, Tyml K. Lipopolysaccharide plus hypoxia and reoxygenation synergistically reduce electrical coupling between microvascular endothelial cells by dephosphorylating connexin40. J Cell Physiol 2008; 217:350-9. [PMID: 18521823 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.21505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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We showed that lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or hypoxia and reoxygenation (H/R) decreases electrical coupling between microvascular endothelial cells by targeting the gap junction protein connexin40 (Cx40), tyrosine kinase-, ERK1/2-, and PKA-dependently. Since LPS can compromise microvascular blood flow, resulting in micro-regional H/R, the concurrent LPS + H/R could reduce coupling to a much greater extent than LPS or H/R alone. We examined this possibility in a model of cultured microvascular endothelial cells (mouse skeletal muscle origin) in terms of electrical coupling and the phosphorylation status of Cx40. To assess coupling, we measured the spread of electrical current injected into the cell monolayer and computed the intercellular resistance as an inversed measure of coupling. In wild type cells, but not in Cx40 null cells, concurrent LPS + H/R synergistically increased resistance by approximately 270%, well above the level observed for LPS or H/R alone. Cx37 and Cx43 protein expression did not differ between Cx40 null and wild type cells. LPS + H/R increased resistance PKA- and PKC-dependently. By immunoprecipitating Cx40, we found that LPS + H/R reduced serine phosphorylation to a much greater degree than that observed for LPS or H/R alone. Further, PKA-specific, but not PKC-specific serine phosphorylation of Cx40 was also significantly reduced following LPS + H/R. This reduction was prevented by tyrosine kinase and MEK1/2 inhibition, by PKA activation, and mimicked in control cells by PKA inhibition. We conclude that LPS + H/R initiates tyrosine kinase- and ERK1/2-sensitive signaling that synergistically reduces inter-endothelial electrical coupling by dephosphorylating PKA-specific serine residues of Cx40.
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- Michael L Bolon
- Critical Illness Research, Lawson Health Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada
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The microcirculation is a complex and integrated system, transporting oxygen and nutrients to the cells. The key component of this system is the endothelium, contributing to the local balance between pro and anti-inflammatory mediators, hemostatic balance, as well as vascular permeability and cell proliferation. A constant shear stress maintains vascular endothelium homeostasis while perturbed shear stress leads to changes in secretion of vasodilator and vasoconstrictor agents. Increased oxidative stress is a major pathogenetic mechanism of endothelial dysfunction by decreasing NO bioavailability, promoting inflammation and participating in activation of intracellular signals cascade, so influencing ion channels activation, signal transduction pathways, cytoskeleton remodelling, intercellular communication and ultimately gene expression. Targeting the microvascular inflammation and oxidative stress is a fascinating approach for novel therapies in order to decrease morbidity and mortality of chronic and acute diseases.
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- E Crimi
- Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
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Matsuda N, Hattori Y. Vascular biology in sepsis: pathophysiological and therapeutic significance of vascular dysfunction. J Smooth Muscle Res 2007; 43:117-37. [PMID: 17928746 DOI: 10.1540/jsmr.43.117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Sepsis is the leading cause of mortality in critically ill patients. In this pathological syndrome, septic shock and sequential multiple organ failure correlate with poor outcome. The pathophysiology of sepsis with acute organ dysfunction involves a highly complex, integrated response that includes activation of number of cell types, inflammatory mediators, and the hemostatic system. Central to this process may be alterations in vascular functions. This review article provides a growing body of evidence for the potential impact of vascular dysfunction on sepsis pathophysiology with a major emphasis on the endothelium. Furthermore, the role of apoptotic signaling molecules in the mechanisms underlying endothelial cell injury and death during sepsis and its potential value as a target for sepsis therapy will be discussed, which may help in the assessment of ongoing therapeutic strategies.
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- Naoyuki Matsuda
- Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyoma, Japan
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Creteur J, Carollo T, Soldati G, Buchele G, De Backer D, Vincent JL. The prognostic value of muscle StO2 in septic patients. Intensive Care Med 2007; 33:1549-56. [PMID: 17572876 DOI: 10.1007/s00134-007-0739-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 255] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2006] [Accepted: 05/11/2007] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To quantify sepsis-induced alterations in changes in muscle tissue oxygenation (StO(2)) after an ischemic challenge using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), and to test the hypothesis that these alterations are related to outcome. DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING Thirty-one-bed, university hospital Department of Intensive Care. PATIENTS Seventy-two patients with severe sepsis or septic shock, 18 hemodynamically stable, acutely ill patients without infection, and 18 healthy volunteers. INTERVENTIONS Three-minute occlusion of the brachial artery using a cuff inflated 50[Symbol: see text]mmHg above systolic arterial pressure. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Thenar eminence StO(2) was measured continuously by NIRS before (StO(2)baseline), during, and after the 3-min occlusion. Changes in StO(2) were assessed by the slope of increase in StO(2) during the first 14 s following the ischemic period and by the difference between the maximum StO(2) and StO(2)baseline (Delta). The slope was lower in septic patients than in controls and volunteers [2.3 (1.3-3.6), 4.8 (3.5-6.0), and 4.7 (3.2-6.3) %/s, p < 0.001]. Delta was also significantly lower in septic patients than in the other groups. Slopes were lower in septic patients with than without shock [2.0 (1.2-2.9) vs 3.2 (1.8-4.5) %/s, p < 0.05]. In 52 septic patients, in whom the slope was obtained every 24 h for 48 h, slopes were higher in survivors than in non-survivors and tended to increase in survivors but not in non-survivors. CONCLUSIONS Altered recovery in StO(2) after an ischemic challenge is frequent in septic patients and more pronounced in the presence of shock. The presence and persistence of these alterations in the first 24[Symbol: see text]h of sepsis are associated with worse outcome.
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- Jacques Creteur
- Erasme University Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Department of Intensive Care, Route de Lennik 808, 1070 Brussels, Belgium
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The microcirculation plays a major role in oxygen delivery and organ perfusion, and is largely involved in the pathophysiological alterations of shock states. It has been a focus of research for a long time, but human clinical and physiological studies have been limited by a lack of reliable techniques available at the bedside. Intravital microscopy, although of interest in experimental studies, is not feasible in human studies. Laser Doppler techniques can measure blood flow, but do not take into account the heterogeneity of the microcirculation. Recently, the Orthogonal Polarized Spectral (OPS) imaging technique has enabled the study of the microcirculation in humans. This technique has allowed a better definition of microcirculatory alterations in disease states, defined the role of some medical interventions, and been used to predict outcome. In this text, we briefly describe the techniques available to study the microcirculation and review experimental and human studies in this domain.
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- Dept of Intensive care, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
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Luckner G, Dünser MW, Stadlbauer KH, Mayr VD, Jochberger S, Wenzel V, Ulmer H, Pajk W, Hasibeder WR, Friesenecker B, Knotzer H. Cutaneous vascular reactivity and flow motion response to vasopressin in advanced vasodilatory shock and severe postoperative multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. CRITICAL CARE : THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE CRITICAL CARE FORUM 2006; 10:R40. [PMID: 16542484 PMCID: PMC1550871 DOI: 10.1186/cc4845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2005] [Revised: 12/28/2006] [Accepted: 02/07/2006] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Introduction Disturbances in microcirculatory homeostasis have been hypothesized to play a key role in the pathophysiology of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome and vasopressor-associated ischemic skin lesions. The effects of a supplementary arginine vasopressin (AVP) infusion on microcirculation in vasodilatory shock and postoperative multiple organ dysfunction syndrome are unknown. Method Included in the study were 18 patients who had undergone cardiac or major surgery and had a mean arterial blood pressure below 65 mmHg, despite infusion of more than 0.5 μg/kg per min norepinephrine. Patients were randomly assigned to receive a combined infusion of AVP/norepinephrine or norepinephrine alone. Demographic and clinical data were recorded at study entry and after 1 hour. A laser Doppler flowmeter was used to measure the cutaneous microcirculatory response at randomization and after 1 hour. Reactive hyperaemia and oscillatory changes in the Doppler signal were measured during the 3 minutes before and after a 5-minute period of forearm ischaemia. Results Patients receiving AVP/norepinephrine had a significantly higher mean arterial pressure (P = 0.047) and higher milrinone requirements (P = 0.025) than did the patients who received norepinephrine only at baseline. Mean arterial blood pressure significantly increased (P < 0.001) and norepinephrine requirements significantly decreased (P < 0.001) in the AVP/norepinephrine group. Patients in the AVP/norepinephrine group exhibited a significantly higher oscillation frequency of the Doppler signal before ischaemia and during reperfusion at randomization. During the study period, there were no differences in either cutaneous reactive hyperaemia or the oscillatory pattern of vascular tone between groups. Conclusion Supplementary AVP infusion in patients with advanced vasodilatory shock and severe postoperative multiple organ dysfunction syndrome did not compromise cutaneous reactive hyperaemia and flowmotion when compared with norepinephrine infusion alone.
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- Günter Luckner
- Department of Anesthesiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Biostatistics and Documentation, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Schwestern, Ried im Innkreis, Austria
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
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Carvalho RS, de Pinho AGM, de Andrade APA, Silva CAME, Gaio CE, Tavares P. Análise da mecânica pulmonar em modelo experimental de sepse. J Bras Pneumol 2006; 32:316-21. [PMID: 17268731 DOI: 10.1590/s1806-37132006000400010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2005] [Accepted: 10/17/2005] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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OBJETIVO: Verificar se há alterações na mecânica pulmonar de camundongos com sepse. MÉTODOS: Foram utilizados 40 camundongos Balb/c divididos em dois grupos: sobrevida (n = 21) e mecânica respiratória (n = 19). O grupo sobrevida foi dividido em três subgrupos: controle (n = 7), subletal (n = 7) e letal (n = 7). O grupo mecânica respiratória também foi dividido em três subgrupos: controle (n = 5), subletal (n = 7) e letal (n = 7). A sepse foi induzida pelo método cecal ligation and puncture, usando-se um estímulo subletal e outro letal. A mecânica pulmonar foi medida oito horas após a intervenção, utilizando-se o método da oclusão ao final da inspiração. Dentro do grupo mecânica pulmonar foram estudadas as seguintes variáveis: variação total de pressão, pressão resistiva, pressão viscoelástica, elastância dinâmica e elastância estática. Os dados foram analisados por meio do teste estatístico ANOVA One-Way. RESULTADOS: Os dados do grupo sobrevida determinaram a eficácia do modelo utilizado. Não houve diferença estatística entre os subgrupos da mecânica pulmonar quando analisadas as elastâncias dinâmica e estática, bem como não houve diferença estatística entre os subgrupos da mecânica pulmonar quando analisadas a variação total de pressão, pressão resistiva e pressão viscoelástica. CONCLUSÃO: Não houve lesão estrutural no pulmão, bem como não houve alteração nos componentes viscoso e viscoelástico do pulmão quando essas variáveis foram estudadas oito horas após a intervenção pelo método cecal ligation and puncture.
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Over the last 100 years, huge advances have been made in the field of sepsis in terms of pathophysiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, monitoring, and therapeutics. Here, we offer our perspective of the key changes and current situation in each of these areas. Despite these changes, mortality rates remain unacceptably high and continued progress, particularly in early diagnosis and therapy, is urgently needed.
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- Jean-Louis Vincent
- Department of Intensive Care, Erasme University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium 1070.
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Goldman D, Bateman RM, Ellis CG. Effect of decreased O2 supply on skeletal muscle oxygenation and O2 consumption during sepsis: role of heterogeneous capillary spacing and blood flow. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2006; 290:H2277-85. [PMID: 16399873 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00547.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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One of the main aspects of the initial phase of the septic inflammatory response to a bacterial infection is abnormal microvascular perfusion, including decreased functional capillary density (FCD) and increased blood flow heterogeneity. On the other hand, one of the most important phenomena observed in the later stages of sepsis is an increased dependence of tissue O(2) utilization on the convective O(2) supply. This "pathological supply dependency" is associated with organ failure and poor clinical outcomes. Here, a detailed theoretical model of capillary-to-tissue O(2) transport during sepsis is used to examine the origins of abnormal supply dependency. With use of three-dimensional arrays of capillaries with heterogeneous spacing and blood flow, steady-state O(2) transport is simulated numerically during reductions in the O(2) supply. Increased supply dependency is shown to occur in sepsis for hypoxic (decreased hemoglobin O(2) saturation) and stagnant (decreased blood flow) hypoxia. For stagnant hypoxia, a reduction in FCD with decreasing blood flow is necessary to obtain the observed increase in supply dependency. Our results imply that supply dependency observed under normal conditions does not have its origin at the level of individual capillaries. In sepsis, however, diffusion limitation and shunting of O(2) by individual capillaries occur to a degree that is dependent on the heterogeneity of septic injury and the arrangement of capillary networks. Thus heterogeneous stoppage of individual capillaries is a likely factor in pathological supply dependency.
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- Daniel Goldman
- Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102, USA.
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Albuszies G, Radermacher P, Vogt J, Wachter U, Weber S, Schoaff M, Georgieff M, Barth E. Effect of increased cardiac output on hepatic and intestinal microcirculatory blood flow, oxygenation, and metabolism in hyperdynamic murine septic shock. Crit Care Med 2005; 33:2332-8. [PMID: 16215389 DOI: 10.1097/01.ccm.0000182817.20977.e9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Septic shock-associated organ dysfunction is attributed to derangements of microcirculatory perfusion and/or impaired cellular oxygen utilization. The hepatosplanchnic organs are regarded to play a pivotal role in the pathophysiology of sepsis-related organ failure. In a murine model of septic shock, we tested the hypothesis whether achieving normotensive, hyperdynamic hemodynamics characterized by a sustained increase in cardiac output would allow maintenance of regional microvascular perfusion and oxygenation and, thus, hepatic metabolic capacity. DESIGN Prospective, controlled, randomized animal study. SETTING University animal research laboratory. SUBJECTS Male C57Bl/6 mice. INTERVENTIONS Fifteen hours after sham operation (n = 11) or cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) (n = 9), mice were anesthetized, mechanically ventilated, and instrumented (central venous and left ventricular pressure-conductance catheter, portal vein and superior mesenteric artery ultrasound flow probes). Animals received continuous intravenous hydroxyethylstarch and norepinephrine to achieve normotensive and hyperdynamic hemodynamics, and glucose was infused to maintain normoglycemia. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Measurements were recorded 18, 21, and 24 hrs post-CLP. In CLP mice, titration of hemodynamic targets were affiliated superior mesenteric artery and portal vein flow. Using a combined laser-Doppler flowmetry and remission spectrophotometry probe, we found well-maintained gut and liver capillary perfusion as well as intestinal microcirculatory hemoglobin oxygen saturation, whereas hepatic microcirculatory hemoglobin oxygen saturation was even increased. At 24 hrs post-CLP, the rate of de novo gluconeogenesis as derived from hepatic C-glucose isotope enrichment after continuous intravenous 1,2,3,4,5,6-C6-glucose infusion (condensation biosynthesis modeling after gas chromatography-mass spectrometry isotope measurements) was similar in the two experimental groups. CONCLUSIONS During murine septic shock achieving normotensive hyperdynamic hemodynamics with fluid resuscitation and norepinephrine, exogenous glucose requirements together with the lack of norepinephrine-induced increase in the rate of gluconeogenesis mirror impaired metabolic capacity of the liver despite well-maintained hepatosplanchnic microvascular perfusion and oxygenation.
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- Gerd Albuszies
- Sektion Anästhesiologische Pathophysiologie und Verfahrensentwicklung, Universitätsklinikum, Ulm, Germany
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Marik PE. Monitoring therapeutic interventions in critically ill septic patients. Nutr Clin Pract 2005; 19:423-32. [PMID: 16215136 DOI: 10.1177/0115426504019005423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Sepsis is the leading cause of admission to intensive care units in the United States. Although the treatment of sepsis is complex and multimodal, nutrition support plays an important role in the management of these patients. The diagnosis of sepsis, disease category, and severity of illness and the change in sepsis severity and organ function over time affect the delivery of nutrition support. This paper reviews the diagnostic criteria of sepsis, the use of "sepsis biomarkers," and regional and global markers of organ function in sepsis and quantitative measures of illness severity and organ dysfunction.
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- Paul E Marik
- Department of Critical Care, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA.
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De Blasi RA, Palmisani S, Alampi D, Mercieri M, Romano R, Collini S, Pinto G. Microvascular dysfunction and skeletal muscle oxygenation assessed by phase-modulation near-infrared spectroscopy in patients with septic shock. Intensive Care Med 2005; 31:1661-8. [PMID: 16205889 DOI: 10.1007/s00134-005-2822-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2004] [Accepted: 09/08/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Sepsis is now considered a disease of the microcirculation. Little is known about the various sepsis-induced changes responsible for microvascular dysfunction. We investigated human microvascular function, regulation, oxygenation, and cellular metabolism during subacute septic shock. DESIGN AND SETTING Prospective case-control study in a nine-bed polyvalent surgical ICU of a university hospital. PATIENTS AND PARTICIPANTS A prospectively enrolled group of 26 patients (13 with septic shock, 13 nonseptic postsurgical patients) and 15 healthy volunteer controls. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS The absolute tissue hemoglobin concentrations (oxygenated hemoglobin and deoxyhemoglobin) were measured noninvasively in arterioles, capillaries, and venules by phase-modulation near-infrared spectroscopy in the human brachioradial muscle during a series of venous occlusions and an arterial occlusion (ischemia) induced by applying a pneumatic cuff. These measurements were used to calculate tissue blood volume, postischemic hemoglobin resaturation time, microvascular compliance, and O2 consumption. Patients with sepsis had significantly higher tissue blood volume values and lower compliance than healthy controls. They also had longer postischemic hemoglobin resaturation times than the other two groups and blunted resaturation curves. O2 consumption was lower in patients with sepsis than in healthy controls. In patients with septic shock cuff-induced ischemia left O2 consumption unchanged, whereas in healthy volunteers it reduced O2 consumption to values almost matching those of patients with septic shock. CONCLUSIONS These findings show that septic shock alters microvascular muscle function and regulation. Diminished local VO2 presumably reflects maldistribution and faulty autoregulation of local blood flow.
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- Roberto Alberto De Blasi
- Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care II, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rome La Sapienza, S. Andrea Hospital, Via di Grottarossa 1035, 00189, Rome, Italy.
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Tyml K, Li F, Wilson JX. Delayed ascorbate bolus protects against maldistribution of microvascular blood flow in septic rat skeletal muscle. Crit Care Med 2005; 33:1823-8. [PMID: 16096461 DOI: 10.1097/01.ccm.0000172548.34622.de] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Although early administration of ascorbate has been shown to protect against the microvascular dysfunction in sepsis, it is not clear if a delayed introduction of ascorbate also yields beneficial effects. The main objective was to determine the therapeutic window for treatment of an animal model of sepsis with bolus injection of ascorbate. We also determined if sepsis per se affects urinary excretion of ascorbate. DESIGN Prospective, controlled laboratory study. SETTING Animal laboratory in a university-affiliated research institute. SUBJECTS Male Sprague-Dawley rats, 300-400 g of body weight. INTERVENTIONS Rats were made septic by cecal ligation and perforation (CLP) and volume resuscitated by continuous saline infusion. Ascorbate bolus (7.6 mg/100 g of body weight) or saline vehicle was injected intravenously at 1, 6, or 24 hrs after CLP. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS At 24 hrs post-CLP, sepsis caused antidiuresis and decreased plasma ascorbate concentration, but it did not affect urinary excretion of ascorbate in rats that received only saline. Sepsis also caused maldistribution of capillary blood flow in skeletal muscle. This maldistribution of flow was prevented by ascorbate injected at 6 hrs post-CLP. At 48 hrs post-CLP, in addition to the flow maldistribution, sepsis caused systemic arterial hypotension and fever that were prevented by both immediate (1 hr post-CLP) and delayed injections of ascorbate (24 hrs post-CLP). CONCLUSION Despite volume resuscitation, the present model of sepsis resulted in maldistribution of capillary blood flow within 24 hrs and hypotension within 48 hrs. Our finding that intravenous bolus of ascorbate can protect against these deficits even if delayed 6-24 hrs after the septic insult shows, for the first time, that ascorbate can reverse microcirculatory dysfunction after the onset of sepsis.
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- Karel Tyml
- Centre for Critical Illness Research, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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Vincent JL, De Backer D. Microvascular dysfunction as a cause of organ dysfunction in severe sepsis. CRITICAL CARE : THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE CRITICAL CARE FORUM 2005; 9 Suppl 4:S9-12. [PMID: 16168075 PMCID: PMC3226162 DOI: 10.1186/cc3748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Reduced microvascular perfusion has been implicated in organ dysfunction and multiple organ failure associated with severe sepsis. The precise mechanisms underlying microvascular dysfunction remain unclear, but there are considerable experimental data showing reduced microcirculatory flow, particularly of small vessels, and increased heterogeneity. With the development of newer imaging techniques, human studies have also been conducted and have given rise to similar findings. Importantly, the degree of microvascular disturbance and its persistence is associated with poorer outcomes. The ability to influence these changes may result in better outcomes and bedside systems, enabling direct visualization of the microcirculation, which will help in the assessment of ongoing microcirculatory dysfunction and its response to established and new therapeutic interventions.
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- Jean-Louis Vincent
- Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Belgium.
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Goldman D, Bateman RM, Ellis CG. Effect of sepsis on skeletal muscle oxygen consumption and tissue oxygenation: interpreting capillary oxygen transport data using a mathematical model. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2004; 287:H2535-44. [PMID: 15319199 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00889.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Inherent in the inflammatory response to sepsis is abnormal microvascular perfusion. Maldistribution of capillary red blood cell (RBC) flow in rat skeletal muscle has been characterized by increased 1) stopped-flow capillaries, 2) capillary oxygen extraction, and 3) ratio of fast-flow to normal-flow capillaries. On the basis of experimental data for functional capillary density (FCD), RBC velocity, and hemoglobin O2 saturation during sepsis, a mathematical model was used to calculate tissue O2 consumption (V̇o2), tissue Po2 (Pt) profiles, and O2 delivery by fast-flow capillaries, which could not be measured experimentally. The model describes coupled capillary and tissue O2 transport using realistic blood and tissue biophysics and three-dimensional arrays of heterogeneously spaced capillaries and was solved numerically using a previously validated scheme. While total blood flow was maintained, capillary flow distribution was varied from 60/30/10% (normal/fast/stopped) in control to 33/33/33% (normal/fast/stopped) in average sepsis (AS) and 25/25/50% (normal/fast/stopped) in extreme sepsis (ES). Simulations found approximately two- and fourfold increases in tissue V̇o2 in AS and ES, respectively. Average (minimum) Pt decreased from 43 ( 40 ) mmHg in control to 34 ( 27 ) and 26 ( 15 ) mmHg in AS and ES, respectively, and clustering fast-flow capillaries (increased flow heterogeneity) reduced minimum Pt to 14.5 mmHg. Thus, although fast capillaries prevented tissue dysoxia, they did not prevent increased hypoxia as the degree of microvascular injury increased. The model predicts that decreased FCD, increased fast flow, and increased V̇o2 in sepsis expose skeletal muscle to significant regions of hypoxia, which could affect local cellular and organ function.
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- Daniel Goldman
- Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Univ. Heights, Newark, NJ 07102, USA.
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Maciel AT, Creteur J, Vincent JL. Tissue capnometry: does the answer lie under the tongue? Intensive Care Med 2004; 30:2157-65. [PMID: 15650865 DOI: 10.1007/s00134-004-2416-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2003] [Accepted: 07/26/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Increases in tissue partial pressure of carbon dioxide (PCO(2)) can reflect an abnormal oxygen supply to the cells, so that monitoring tissue PCO(2) may help identify circulatory abnormalities and guide their correction. Gastric tonometry aims at monitoring regional PCO(2) in the stomach, an easily accessible organ that becomes ischemic quite early when the circulatory status is jeopardized. Despite substantial initial enthusiasm, this technique has never been widely implemented due to various technical problems and artifacts during measurement. Experimental studies have suggested that sublingual PCO(2 )(P(sl)CO(2)) is a reliable marker of tissue perfusion. Clinical studies have demonstrated that high P(sl)CO(2) values and, especially, high gradients between P(sl)CO(2) and arterial PCO(2) (DeltaP(sl-a)CO(2)) are associated with impaired microcirculatory blood flow and a worse prognosis in critically ill patients. Although some questions remain to be answered about sublingual capnometry and its utility, this technique could offer new hope for tissue PCO(2) monitoring in clinical practice.
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- Alexandre Toledo Maciel
- Department of Intensive Care, Erasme University Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Route de Lennik 808, 1070 Brussels, Belgium
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Anning PB, Finney SJ, Singh S, Winlove CP, Evans TW. Fluids reverse the early lipopolysaccharide-induced albumin leakage in rodent mesenteric venules. Intensive Care Med 2004; 30:1944-9. [PMID: 15258732 DOI: 10.1007/s00134-004-2385-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2003] [Accepted: 06/24/2004] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Volume resuscitation is clinically beneficial in patients with sepsis, but few data exist concerning the effects of fluid administration on early events in the inflammatory process. Vascular permeability, leukocyte rolling and leukocyte adhesion in the rodent mesenteric microcirculation were assessed in vivo using intravital microscopy, and the effect of fluid administration on lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced changes recorded. DESIGN Prospective, repeated measures study. SETTING University hospital laboratory. SUBJECTS Male Wistar rats in six groups. INTERVENTIONS All animals underwent intravital microscopic examination of mesenteric post-capillary venules. LPS or vehicle was applied topically. Animals received either no additional fluids, 0.9% saline (16 ml/kg per h) or 5% human albumin (16 ml/kg per h) commencing 30 min prior to LPS/vehicle administration. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Leukocyte rolling, firm adhesion and blood velocity were observed directly. Vascular permeability was assessed using the flux of fluorescently labelled albumin into the interstitium. LPS significantly increased the median (IQR) number of leukocytes rolling and firmly adherent relative to baseline (at 60 min rolling increased from 12.0 (10.3-13.8) to 40.3 (36.0-47.5) cells/min; adhesion increased from 1 (1-2) to 17 (12-26) cells/100 microm; n=5, p<0.01). Transvascular albumin flux was significantly increased 45 min after LPS application (p<0.01), but not after vehicle. Administration of either 0.9% saline (n=5) or 5% human albumin (n=6), significantly attenuated LPS-induced increases in albumin flux (p<0.05), leukocyte rolling (p<0.01) and adhesion (p<0.01). Fluid administration did not appear to alter shear rates. CONCLUSIONS Pre-emptive volume administration with either saline or albumin prevented early LPS-induced microcirculatory changes by an undefined effect that is unrelated to changes in microvascular flow.
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- Peter B Anning
- Unit of Critical Care, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College of Science Technology & Medicine, Dovehouse Street, SW3 6LY London, UK
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Piagnerelli M, Boudjeltia KZ, Vanhaeverbeek M, Vincent JL. Red blood cell rheology in sepsis. Intensive Care Med 2003; 29:1052-61. [PMID: 12802488 DOI: 10.1007/s00134-003-1783-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/27/2003] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Changes in red blood cell (RBC) function can contribute to alterations in microcirculatory blood flow and cellular dysoxia in sepsis. Decreases in RBC and neutrophil deformability impair the passage of these cells through the microcirculation. While the role of leukocytes has been the focus of many studies in sepsis, the role of erythrocyte rheological alterations in this syndrome has only recently been investigated. RBC rheology can be influenced by many factors, including alterations in intracellular calcium and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) concentrations, the effects of nitric oxide, a decrease in some RBC membrane components such as sialic acid, and an increase in others such as 2,3 diphosphoglycerate. Other factors include interactions with white blood cells and their products (reactive oxygen species), or the effects of temperature variations. Understanding the mechanisms of altered RBC rheology in sepsis, and the effects on blood flow and oxygen transport, may lead to improved patient management and reductions in morbidity and mortality.
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- M Piagnerelli
- Department of Intensive Care, Erasme University Hospital, Free University of Brussels, 808 route de Lennik, 1070, Brussels, Belgium
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Luk CS, Gray-Statchuk LA, Cepinkas G, Chin-Yee IH. WBC reduction reduces storage-associated RBC adhesion to human vascular endothelial cells under conditions of continuous flow in vitro. Transfusion 2003; 43:151-6. [PMID: 12559009 DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.2003.00310.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND The effects of storage duration, WBC reduction, and irradiation on RBC adherence to vascular endothelia are unknown and are investigated under conditions of continuous flow. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS Thirty-two RBC units were collected and divided into three groups, non-WBC-reduced (NWR), WBC-reduced (WR), and irradiated-WBC-reduced. Aliquots of RBCs were removed on Days 1, 15, and 28 of storage for analysis. The RBC suspensions were then perfused at a 1.5 percent Hct in a protein-poor medium under conditions of continuous flow over human umbilical vein endothelial cell monolayers. On each slide, 25 randomly chosen sites were videorecorded over 10 minutes, and the number of RBCs adherent to the endothelial cell monolayer was counted. RESULTS NWR RBCs stored for 28 days demonstrated a greater degree of adherence to endothelial cells compared to Days 1 and 15 (p < 0.03). The WR group had significantly fewer adherent RBCs than the NWR group on day 28 (p < 0.01). Irradiation had no effect on RBC adherence. CONCLUSION Prolonged storage of NWR RBCs increases RBC adherence to endothelial cells in vitro. WBC reduction before storage abrogates the effect of storage duration on increased adhesion. Studies to assess whether an in vivo effect occurs are required.
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- Cynthia S Luk
- London Health Sciences Center, the Lawson Health Research Institute, Canadian Blood Services, and the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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Krejci V, Hiltebrand LB, Erni D, Sigurdsson GH. Endothelin receptor antagonist bosentan improves microcirculatory blood flow in splanchnic organs in septic shock. Crit Care Med 2003; 31:203-10. [PMID: 12545016 DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200301000-00031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Splanchnic ischemia is believed to play an important role in the development of multiple organ dysfunction in septic shock. The vasoconstrictor peptide endothelin can produce an intense and sustained splanchnic vasoconstriction and is increased in sepsis. The aim of this investigation was to study the effects of an endothelin antagonist on microcirculatory blood flow in multiple abdominal organs during septic shock. DESIGN Prospective, controlled animal study. SETTING University-affiliated research laboratory. SUBJECTS Fifteen anesthetized and mechanically ventilated pigs. INTERVENTIONS Septic shock was induced by fecal peritonitis. After 120 mins of sepsis, eight animals received 10 mg/kg bosentan intravenously followed by an intravenous infusion at 5 mg x kg-1 x hr-1 whereas seven (controls) received isotonic saline. At 240 mins after induction of sepsis both groups received hydroxyethyl starch, 20 mL/kg intravenously, to convert hypodynamic septic shock to hyperdynamic sepsis. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Microcirculatory blood flow was measured simultaneously and continuously in the jejunal muscularis, pancreas, liver, kidney, skeletal muscle, and gastric, jejunal, and colon mucosa by using a multiple-channel laser Doppler flow meter. After 120 mins, all animals had developed signs of hypodynamic sepsis with decreased cardiac index, mean arterial blood pressure, and gastric mucosal pH. Microcirculatory blood flow in the pancreas and liver had decreased by 20% and in the jejunal muscularis by >40% (p <.01) whereas it remained virtually unchanged in the gastric, jejunal, and colonic mucosa. After 240 mins, cardiac index, mean arterial blood pressure, gastric mucosal pH, and microcirculatory blood flow in the gastric mucosa, colon mucosa, jejunal muscularis, and pancreas had all deteriorated in the controls, whereas in the bosentan-treated group, cardiac index and microcirculatory blood flow in the pancreas, gastric, and colon mucosa improved. During hyperdynamic sepsis, cardiac index increased above baseline in both groups but significantly more in the bosentan group. In the control group, microcirculatory flow returned to baseline in most tissues except in skeletal muscle and jejunal muscularis. In the bosentan group, microcirculatory flow returned to or increased above baseline in all tissues except in the muscularis of the jejunum. CONCLUSIONS The endothelin receptor antagonist bosentan significantly improved microcirculatory blood flow in many splanchnic organs and in peripheral tissues during septic shock. The results of this study are consistent with the hypothesis that endothelin plays an important role in the regulation of microcirculatory blood flow in splanchnic as well as in peripheral tissues during septic shock.
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- Vladimir Krejci
- Department of Anesthesiology, Inselspital, University Hospital of Berne, Switzerland
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Bateman RM, Sharpe MD, Ellis CG. Bench-to-bedside review: microvascular dysfunction in sepsis--hemodynamics, oxygen transport, and nitric oxide. Crit Care 2003; 7:359-73. [PMID: 12974969 PMCID: PMC270719 DOI: 10.1186/cc2353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 211] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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The microcirculation is a complex and integrated system that supplies and distributes oxygen throughout the tissues. The red blood cell (RBC) facilitates convective oxygen transport via co-operative binding with hemoglobin. In the microcirculation oxygen diffuses from the RBC into neighboring tissues, where it is consumed by mitochondria. Evidence suggests that the RBC acts as deliverer of oxygen and 'sensor' of local oxygen gradients. Within vascular beds RBCs are distributed actively by arteriolar tone and passively by rheologic factors, including vessel geometry and RBC deformability. Microvascular oxygen transport is determined by microvascular geometry, hemodynamics, and RBC hemoglobin oxygen saturation. Sepsis causes abnormal microvascular oxygen transport as significant numbers of capillaries stop flowing and the microcirculation fails to compensate for decreased functional capillary density. The resulting maldistribution of RBC flow results in a mismatch of oxygen delivery with oxygen demand that affects both critical oxygen delivery and oxygen extraction ratio. Nitric oxide (NO) maintains microvascular homeostasis by regulating arteriolar tone, RBC deformability, leukocyte and platelet adhesion to endothelial cells, and blood volume. NO also regulates mitochondrial respiration. During sepsis, NO over-production mediates systemic hypotension and microvascular reactivity, and is seemingly protective of microvascular blood flow.
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- Ryon M Bateman
- Vascular Biology Program, Lawson Health Research Institute, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
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De Backer D, Creteur J, Preiser JC, Dubois MJ, Vincent JL. Microvascular blood flow is altered in patients with sepsis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2002; 166:98-104. [PMID: 12091178 DOI: 10.1164/rccm.200109-016oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 936] [Impact Index Per Article: 42.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Microvascular blood flow alterations are frequent in animal models of sepsis and may impair tissue oxygenation. We hypothesized that alterations of the microcirculation are present in patients with sepsis. We used an orthogonal polarization spectral imaging technique to investigate the sublingual microcirculation in 10 healthy volunteers, 16 patients before cardiac surgery, 10 acutely ill patients without sepsis (intensive care unit control subjects), and 50 patients with severe sepsis. The effects of topical application of acetylcholine (10(-2) M) were tested in 11 patients with sepsis. In each subject, five to seven sublingual areas were recorded and analyzed semiquantitatively. Data were analyzed with nonparametric tests and are presented as medians (25th-75th percentiles). No significant difference in microvascular blood flow was observed between healthy volunteers and patients before cardiac surgery or intensive care unit control subjects. The density of all vessels was significantly reduced in patients with severe sepsis (4.5 [4.2-5.2] versus 5.4 [5.4-6.3]/mm in volunteers, p < 0.01). The proportion of perfused small (< 20 microm) vessels was reduced in patients with sepsis (48 [33-61] versus 90 [89-92]% in volunteers, p < 0.001). These alterations were more severe in nonsurvivors. The topical application of acetylcholine totally reversed these alterations. In conclusion, microvascular blood flow alterations are frequent in patients with sepsis and are more severe in patients with a worse outcome.
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- Daniel De Backer
- Department of Intensive Care, Erasme University Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Belgium.
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Fink MP, Evans TW. Mechanisms of organ dysfunction in critical illness: report from a Round Table Conference held in Brussels. Intensive Care Med 2002; 28:369-75. [PMID: 11904670 DOI: 10.1007/s00134-001-1205-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2001] [Accepted: 12/11/2001] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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- M P Fink
- Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical School, 616 Scaife Hall, 3550 Terrace Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA.
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Ellis CG, Bateman RM, Sharpe MD, Sibbald WJ, Gill R. Effect of a maldistribution of microvascular blood flow on capillary O(2) extraction in sepsis. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2002; 282:H156-64. [PMID: 11748059 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.2002.282.1.h156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 173] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Inherent in the remote organ injury caused by sepsis is a profound maldistribution of microvascular blood flow. Using a 24-h rat cecal ligation and perforation model of sepsis, we studied O(2) transport in individual capillaries of the extensor digitorum longus (EDL) skeletal muscle. We hypothesized that erythrocyte O(2) saturation (SO(2)) levels within normally flowing capillaries would provide evidence of either a mitochondrial failure (increased SO(2)) or an O(2) transport derangement (decreased SO(2)). Using a spectrophotometric functional imaging system, we found that sepsis caused 1) an increase in stopped flow capillaries (from 10 to 38%, P < 0.05), 2) an increase in the proportion of fast-flow to normal-flow capillaries (P < 0.05), and 3) a decrease in capillary venular-end SO(2) levels from 58.4 +/- 20.0 to 38.5 +/- 21.2%, whereas capillary arteriolar-end SO(2) levels remained unchanged compared with the sham group. Capillary O(2) extraction increased threefold (P < 0.05) and was directly related to the degree of stopped flow in the EDL. Thus impaired O(2) transport in early stage sepsis is likely the result of a microcirculatory dysfunction.
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- Christopher G Ellis
- Vascular Biology Program, Lawson Health Research Institute, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario N6B 1B8, Canada.
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- Trauma Life Support Center, Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Martin H, Olander B, Norman M. Reactive hyperemia and interleukin 6, interleukin 8, and tumor necrosis factor-alpha in the diagnosis of early-onset neonatal sepsis. Pediatrics 2001; 108:E61. [PMID: 11581469 DOI: 10.1542/peds.108.4.e61] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate the diagnostic value of peripheral circulatory reactive hyperemia and serum levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6), IL-8, and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) in early-onset neonatal sepsis. METHODS Reactive hyperemia in the dorsal hand and serum levels of IL-6, IL-8, and TNF-alpha were studied in newborn infants (n = 32; gestational age 39 +/- 3 weeks) who had been admitted to the neonatal unit because of suspected sepsis <48 hours after birth. On admission, reactive hyperemia after a standardized arterial occlusion was measured with laser Doppler technique, and blood samples were taken for cytokine analyses. On the basis of predetermined criteria, the infants subsequently were classified as septic (n = 12) or not (n = 20). RESULTS The degree of reactive hyperemia was higher in the group with sepsis (median + 170% perfusion increase) than in that without (+37%). On admission, serum levels of IL-6, IL-8, and TNF-alpha all were higher in septic (median values: 1620, 331, and 22 pg/mL, respectively) than in nonseptic neonates (median values: 42, 63, and 13 pg/mL, respectively). In the group with sepsis, the degree of reactive hyperemia correlated to log IL-6 (r = 0.80) and log IL-8 values (r = 0.71). CONCLUSION Newborn infants with septicemia have increased reactive hyperemia and elevated cytokine levels very early in their disease. Reactive hyperemia in skin can be analyzed at the bedside and noninvasively and therefore may serve as an additional diagnostic tool in neonatal sepsis.
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- H Martin
- Department of Women and Child Health, Division of Neonatology, Karolinska Hospital, Sweden.
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