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Sympathetic Vasoconstrictor Responsiveness of the Leg Vasculature During Experimental Endotoxemia and Hypoxia in Humans.

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OBJECTIVE:Sympathetic vasoconstriction regulates peripheral circulation and controls blood pressure, but sepsis is associated with hypotension. We evaluated whether apparent loss of sympathetic vasoconstrictor responsiveness relates to distended smooth muscles or to endotoxemia and/or hypoxia. DESIGN:Prospective descriptive study. SETTING:Hospital research laboratory. SUBJECTS:Ten healthy young men (age [mean ± SD], 31 ± 8 yr; body weight, 83 ± 10 kg) participated in the study. INTERVENTIONS:Leg blood flow and mean arterial pressure were determined, whereas leg vascular conductance was calculated during 1) adenosine infusion (vasodilator control), 2) hypoxia (FIO2 = 10%), 3) endotoxemia, and 4) endotoxemia + hypoxia. Leg sympathetic vasoconstrictor responsiveness (reduction in leg vascular conductance) was evaluated by femoral artery tyramine infusion. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS:Endotoxemia increased body temperature from 36.9 ± 0.4°C to 38.6 ± 0.5°C (p < 0.01) and plasma tumor necrosis factor-α from 6 pg/mL (3-8 pg/mL) to 391 pg/mL (128-2258 pg/mL) (p < 0.01; median [range]). Mean arterial pressure decreased similarly during endotoxemia (-11% ± 16%) and endotoxemia + hypoxia (-10% ± 15%; both p < 0.05). Leg blood flow and leg vascular conductance were not affected by endotoxemia, whereas both were elevated by adenosine infusion (leg blood flow, +94% ± 61%; leg vascular conductance, +97% ± 57%), hypoxia (leg blood flow: +93% ± 58%; leg vascular conductance, +100% ± 115%), and endotoxemia + hypoxia (leg blood flow, +67% ± 120%; leg vascular conductance, +65% ± 57%; p < 0.05). Endotoxemia lessened the tyramine-induced reduction in leg vascular conductance (-28% ± 13%) compared with the reduction during adenosine infusion (-47% ± 5%; p < 0.05). Also, endotoxemia + hypoxia (-17% ± 21%) attenuated the tyramine-induced reduction in leg vascular conductance compared with both adenosine infusion and hypoxia (-45% ± 13%; p < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS:Both endotoxemia and combined hypoxia and endotoxemia blunted sympathetic vasoconstrictor responsiveness. Furthermore, tyramine normalized the doubled leg vascular conductance during administration of adenosine, suggesting that distension of vascular smooth muscles does not explain blunted sympathetic vasoconstrictor responsiveness during endotoxemia.

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Crit Care Med

journal_title

Critical care medicine

authors

Brassard P,Zaar M,Thaning P,Secher NH,Rosenmeier JB

doi

10.1097/CCM.0000000000001486

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2016-04-01 00:00:00

pages

755-63

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eissn

0090-3493

issn

1530-0293

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Sympathetic Vasoconstrictor Responsiveness of the Leg Vasculature During Experimental Endotoxemia and Hypoxia in Humans.