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Anesth Analg 2005;100:1107-1111
© 2005 International Anesthesia Research Society
doi: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000147665.60613.CA

CRITICAL CARE AND TRAUMA

The Effect of Nitroglycerin on Microvascular Perfusion and Oxygenation During Gastric Tube Reconstruction

Marc P. Buise, MD*, Can Ince, PhD{ddagger}, Hugo W. Tilanus, MD, PhD{dagger}, Jan Klein, MD, PhD*, Diederik Gommers, MD, PhD*, and Jasper van Bommel, MD, PhD*

Departments of *Anesthesiology and {dagger}Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, and {ddagger}Department of Physiology, Amsterdam Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to M. P. Buise, Department of Anesthesiology, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Address e-mail to m.buise{at}erasmusmc.nl.

Esophagectomy followed by gastric tube reconstruction is the surgical treatment of choice for patients with esophageal cancer. Complications of the cervical anastomosis are associated with impaired microvascular blood flow (MBF) and ischemia in the gastric fundus. The aim of the present study was to differentiate whether the decrease in MBF is a result of arterial insufficiency or of venous congestion. To do this we assessed MBF, microvascular hemoglobin oxygen saturation (µHbSo2), and microvascular hemoglobin concentration (µHbcon) simultaneously during different stages of gastric tube reconstruction. In 14 patients, MBF was determined with laser Doppler flowmetry, and µHbSo2 and µHbcon were determined with reflectance spectro- photometry. After completion of the anastomosis, nitroglycerin was applied at the fundus. Although MBF did not change significantly in the pylorus, MBF decreased progressively during surgery in the fundus from 210 ± 18 Arbitrary Units at baseline (normal stomach) to 52 ± 9 Arbitrary Units after completion of reconstruction (mean ± sem; P < 0.05). There was no change in µHbSo2 and µHbcon during the reconstruction. After application of nitroglycerin, MBF doubled. We conclude that MBF decreases during gastric tube reconstruction but that µHbSo2 and µHbcon do not. This decrease might be the result of venous congestion, which can partly be counteracted by application of nitroglycerin.






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