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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF VETERINARY RESEARCH
Volume 63, Issue 10, Pages 1413-1417Publisher
AMER VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.2460/ajvr.2002.63.1413
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- PHS HHS [R01-H 1045120] Funding Source: Medline
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Objective-To describe neuroendocrine responses that develop in dogs subjected to prolonged periods of ventricular pacing. Animals-14 adult male hound-type dogs. Procedure Samples were obtained and neuroendocrine responses measured before (baseline) and after 3 periods of ventricular pacing. A pacemaker was used to induce heart rates of 180, 200, and 220 beats/min (BPM). Each heart rate was maintained for 3 weeks before increasing to the next rate. Atrial natriuretic peptide, antidiuretic hormone, aldosterone, norepinephrine, epinephrine, and dopamine concentrations and plasma renin activity were measured. Severity of left ventricular compromise was estimated. Results-Shortening fraction decreased significantly with increasing heart rates (mean SE, 35.5 +/- 1.4, 25.0 +/- 1.4, 19.5 +/- 1.9, and 12.2 +/- 2.3 for baseline, 180 BPM, 200 BPM, and 220 BPM, respectively). Atrial natriuretic peptide concentrations increased significantly at 180 BPM (44.1 +/- 3.0 pg/mL) and 200 BPM (54.8 +/- 5.5 pg/mL), compared with baseline concentration (36.8 +/- 2.6 pg/mL). Dopamine concentration increased significantly at 200 BPM (70.4 +/- 10.4 pg/mL), compared with baseline concentration (44.2 +/- 73 pg/mL). Norepinelphrine concentrations increased significantly from baseline concentration (451 +/- 46.2 pg/mL) to 678 +/- 69.8, 856 +/- 99.6 and 1,003 +/- 2676 pg/mL at 180, 200, and 220 BPM, respectively. Conclusions and Clinical Relevance-Dogs subjected to ventricular pacing for 9 weeks developed neuroendocrine responses similar to those that develop in humans with more chronic heart failure and, except for epinephrine concentrations, similar to those for dogs subjected to ventricular pacing for < 6 weeks.
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