Myocardial energy response to glyceryl trinitrate: physiology revisited
<p><strong>Objective:</strong> Although intravenous nitrates are commonly used in clinical medicine, they have been shown to increase myocardial oxygen consumption and inhibit complex IV of the electron transport chain. As such we sought to measure whether myocardial energetics we...
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| author | Watson, WD Green, PG Valkovič, L Herring, N Neubauer, S Rider, OJ |
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| description | <p><strong>Objective:</strong> Although intravenous nitrates are commonly used in clinical medicine, they have been shown to increase myocardial oxygen consumption and inhibit complex IV of the electron transport chain. As such we sought to measure whether myocardial energetics were impaired during glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) infusion.</p>
<p><strong>Methods:</strong> 10 healthy volunteers underwent cardiac magnetic resonance imaging to assess cardiac function and 31phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy to measure Phosphocreatine/ATP (PCr/ATP) ratio and creatine kinase forward rate constant (CK kf) before and during an intravenous infusion of GTN.</p>
<p><strong>Results:</strong> During GTN infusion, mean arterial pressure (78 ± 7 vs. 65 ± 6 mmHg, p < 0.001), left ventricular (LV) stroke work (7,708 ± 2,782 vs. 6,071 ± 2,660 ml mmHg, p < 0.001), and rate pressure product (7,214 ± 1,051 vs. 6,929 ± 976 mmHg bpm, p = 0.06) all fell. LV ejection fraction increased (61 ± 3 vs. 66 ± 4%, p < 0.001), with cardiac output remaining constant (6.2 ± 1.5 vs. 6.5 ± 1.4 l/min, p = 0.37). Myocardial PCr/ATP fell during GTN infusion (2.17 ± 0.2 vs. 1.99 ± 0.22, p = 0.03) with an increase in both CK kf (0.16 ± 0.07 vs. 0.25 ± 0.1 s−1, p = 0.006) and CK flux (1.8 ± 0.8 vs. 2.6 ± 1.1 μmol/g/s, p = 0.03).</p>
<p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> During GTN infusion, despite reduced LV stroke work and maintained cardiac output, there was a 44% increase in myocardial ATP delivery through CK. As PCr/ATP fell, this increase in ATP demand coincided with GTN-induced impairment of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation. Overall, this suggests that while GTN reduces cardiac work, it does so at the expense of increasing ATP demand beyond the capacity to increase ATP production.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:0914f432-bd7e-4442-a488-0cb1487a094d2022-03-26T09:16:23ZMyocardial energy response to glyceryl trinitrate: physiology revisitedJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:0914f432-bd7e-4442-a488-0cb1487a094dEnglishSymplectic ElementsFrontiers Media2020Watson, WDGreen, PGValkovič, LHerring, NNeubauer, SRider, OJ<p><strong>Objective:</strong> Although intravenous nitrates are commonly used in clinical medicine, they have been shown to increase myocardial oxygen consumption and inhibit complex IV of the electron transport chain. As such we sought to measure whether myocardial energetics were impaired during glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) infusion.</p> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> 10 healthy volunteers underwent cardiac magnetic resonance imaging to assess cardiac function and 31phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy to measure Phosphocreatine/ATP (PCr/ATP) ratio and creatine kinase forward rate constant (CK kf) before and during an intravenous infusion of GTN.</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong> During GTN infusion, mean arterial pressure (78 ± 7 vs. 65 ± 6 mmHg, p < 0.001), left ventricular (LV) stroke work (7,708 ± 2,782 vs. 6,071 ± 2,660 ml mmHg, p < 0.001), and rate pressure product (7,214 ± 1,051 vs. 6,929 ± 976 mmHg bpm, p = 0.06) all fell. LV ejection fraction increased (61 ± 3 vs. 66 ± 4%, p < 0.001), with cardiac output remaining constant (6.2 ± 1.5 vs. 6.5 ± 1.4 l/min, p = 0.37). Myocardial PCr/ATP fell during GTN infusion (2.17 ± 0.2 vs. 1.99 ± 0.22, p = 0.03) with an increase in both CK kf (0.16 ± 0.07 vs. 0.25 ± 0.1 s−1, p = 0.006) and CK flux (1.8 ± 0.8 vs. 2.6 ± 1.1 μmol/g/s, p = 0.03).</p> <p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> During GTN infusion, despite reduced LV stroke work and maintained cardiac output, there was a 44% increase in myocardial ATP delivery through CK. As PCr/ATP fell, this increase in ATP demand coincided with GTN-induced impairment of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation. Overall, this suggests that while GTN reduces cardiac work, it does so at the expense of increasing ATP demand beyond the capacity to increase ATP production.</p> |
| spellingShingle | Watson, WD Green, PG Valkovič, L Herring, N Neubauer, S Rider, OJ Myocardial energy response to glyceryl trinitrate: physiology revisited |
| title | Myocardial energy response to glyceryl trinitrate: physiology revisited |
| title_full | Myocardial energy response to glyceryl trinitrate: physiology revisited |
| title_fullStr | Myocardial energy response to glyceryl trinitrate: physiology revisited |
| title_full_unstemmed | Myocardial energy response to glyceryl trinitrate: physiology revisited |
| title_short | Myocardial energy response to glyceryl trinitrate: physiology revisited |
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