• Department of Cardiovascular, Surgery, Xijing Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi' an 710032, P. R. China.;
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Objective To observe the changes of inflammatory cytokines in brain protective methods, study the inflammatory mechanism during cerebral protection tissues in different cerebral Methods Eighteen healthy adult dogs were randomly divided into three groups (6 dogs in each group): normothermic cardiopulmonary bypass (NCPB group), deep hypothermic circulatory arrest (DHCA group), and intermittent selective antegrade cerebral perfusion (ISACP) during DHCA(DHCA+ISACP group). After operation the water contents in brain tissue were measured ,the hippocampus were removed, and radio-immunity analysis (RIA) was used to measure the content of interleukin-1β(IL-1β) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) of the hippocampus tissue. The morphology of the hippocampus were examined by transmission electron (TE) microscopy. Results The contents of IL-1β and TNF-α of DHCA group was higher significantly than those of NCPB group and DHCA+ISACP group (P〈0.01), there was no significant difference between NCPB group and DHCA+ISACP group (P〉0.05). And the contents of TNF-α and IL-1β were positive linear correlated with degree of edema of brain tissues (r = 0. 987, 0.942; P〈 0.01). TE examination revealed that the damage of the uhrastructure in the DHCA group was more severe than that in NCPB group and DHCA+ISACP group. Conclusions This experiment revealed that long duration DHCA can bring some damages to the brain and that ISACP during long-term DHCA has brain protective effects to some extent. IL-1β and TNF-α play an effective role in the brain damage of long-term DHCA.

Citation: ZHUANG Xiaofei,LI Tong,CAI Zhenjie,et al .. Effects of Inflammatory Reaction Related to Different Cerebral Protective Methods on Brain. Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2006, 13(2): 109-112. doi: Copy