Large animal model of left ventricular aneurysm.
Publication/Presentation Date
12-1-1989
Abstract
In 28 Dorsett sheep, ligation of the distal homonymous (equivalent to human left anterior descending) and second diagonal coronary arteries produced a constant transmural infarct of 22.9% +/- 2.5% (mean +/- standard deviation) of the left ventricular mass. Serial left ventriculograms showed that within four hours the infarct segment expands, wall thickness decreases, and aneurysmal dilatation occurs and progresses over the next 60 days in all sheep. Epicardial ventricular point references indicated that adjacent noninfarcted myocardium participates in the formation of the aneurysm. Anatomy of the coronary vasculature was studied in 22 excised sheep hearts. In sheep, coronary arterial anatomy is remarkably constant. The left coronary artery provides all of the blood supply to the left ventricle and septum and only a small rim of both the anterior and posterior right ventricles. Cardiac veins from the left ventricle drain into the coronary sinus, which also receives the left azygos vein. Right ventricular veins drain separately. The essentially separate coronary circulations to the two ventricles, the paucity of coronary collateral circulation, and the consistent evolution of left ventricular infarcts into aneurysms are important advantages of the ovine model for both metabolic and ventricular mechanical studies of acute myocardial infarction and left ventricular aneurysm.
Volume
48
Issue
6
First Page
838
Last Page
845
ISSN
0003-4975
Published In/Presented At
Markovitz, L. J., Savage, E. B., Ratcliffe, M. B., Bavaria, J. E., Kreiner, G., Iozzo, R. V., Hargrove, W. C., 3rd, Bogen, D. K., & Edmunds, L. H., Jr (1989). Large animal model of left ventricular aneurysm. The Annals of thoracic surgery, 48(6), 838–845. https://doi.org/10.1016/0003-4975(89)90682-6
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
2596920
Department(s)
Department of Surgery
Document Type
Article