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Advantage of ischemic preconditioning for hepatic resection in pigs
Jun Kadono1, Nobuo Hamada, Mikio Fukueda
1Second Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima University, Sakuragaoka, Kagoshima, Japan. kadonofamily@k6.dion.ne.jp
Background:
Ischemic preconditioning (IP) and intermittent inflow occlusion (IO) have provided beneficial outcomes in hepatic resection. However, comparison of these two procedures against warm hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury has not been studied enough.
Materials And Methods:
Pigs that had undergone 65% hepatectomy were subjected to Control (120 min continuous ischemia, n = 6), IP (10 min ischemia and 10 min reperfusion, followed by 120 min continuous ischemia, n = 6), and IO (120 min ischemia in the form of eight successive periods of 15 min ischemia and 5 min reperfusion, n = 6). We evaluated hepatocyte injury by aspartate aminotransferase, lactate dehydrogenase and hepaplastin test, hepatic microcirculation by hepatic tissue blood flow (HTBF) and endothelin (ET)-1, inflammatory response by tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), and histopathology after reperfusion.
Results:
IP prevented hepatocyte injury, HTBF disturbance, and hepatocyte necrosis in histopathology as well as IO. These two groups showed significantly better outcomes than Control. IP produced significantly less ET-1 and TNF-alpha than IO.
Conclusions:
IP ameliorated hepatic warm ischemia-reperfusion injury. Furthermore, IP gained more advantages in preventing chemokine production such as ET-1 and inflammatory response over IO. IP could take the place of IO for hepatectomy.
