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Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 284: E788-E794, 2003. First published August 20, 2002; doi:10.1152/ajpendo.00522.2001
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Vol. 284, Issue 4, E788-E794, April 2003

Myocardial interstitial glucose and lactate before, during, and after cardioplegic heart arrest

Charles Kennergren1, Vittorio Mantovani4, Lena Strindberg2, Eva Berglin1, Anders Hamberger3, and Peter Lönnroth2

Departments of 1 Heart and Lung Medicine, 2 Internal Medicine, and 3 Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Göteborg, SE-413 45, Goteborg, Sweden; and 4 Department of Heart Surgery, University of Varese, 21100 Varese, Italy

The interstitial fluid of the human myocardium was monitored in 13 patients undergoing aortic valve and/or bypass surgery before, during, and after hypothermic potassium cardioplegia. The regulation of glucose and lactate was studied after sampling with microdialysis. The following questions were addressed. 1) Is the rate of transcapillary diffusion the limiting step for myocardial uptake of glucose before or after cardioplegia? 2) Does cold potassium cardioplegia induce a critical deprivation of glucose and/or accumulation of lactate in the myocardium? Before cardioplegia, interstitial glucose was ~50% of the plasma level (P < 0.001). Interstitial glucose decreased significantly immediately after induction of cardioplegia and remained low (1.25 ± 0.25 mM) throughout cardioplegia. It was restored to precardioplegic levels 1 h after release of the aortic clamp. Interstitial glucose then decreased again at 25 and 35 h postoperatively to the levels observed during cardioplegia. Interstitial lactate decreased immediately after induction of cardioplegia but returned to basal level during the clamping period. At 25 and 35 h, interstitial lactate was significantly lower than before and during cardioplegia. Glucose transport over the capillary endothelium is considered rate limiting for its uptake in the working heart but not during cold potassium cardioplegia despite the glucose deprivation following perfusion of glucose-free cardioplegic solution. Lactate accumulated during cardioplegia but never reached exceedingly high interstitial levels. We conclude that microdialysis provides information that may be relevant for myocardial protection during open-heart surgery.

myocardium; ischemia; microdialysis; surgery


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