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Coronary flow and myocardial oxygen consumption were measured in conscious dogs at rest and during two levels of submaximal treadmill exercise (3 and 7 km/h at 15% grade, respectively) during adaptation to progressive hemodilution with dextran 60. At rest coronary flow increased to more than seven-fold with diminishing hematocrit to 12.5% in order to cover myocardial oxygen consumption which increased from 6.5±0.3 ml/min· 100 g at hematocrit 47.5% to 13.5±0.8 ml/min· 100 g at hematocrit 12.5%. The dilatory capacity of the coronary vessels, estimated from the reactive hyperemia after a 12 sec occlusion of the left circumflex coronary artery, dropped from 602% at control to 45% at lowest hematocrit levels.
During the superimposed stress of exercise coronary flow and myocardial oxygen consumption increased further, so that the dilatory capacity of the coronaries was exhausted at hematocrit levels between 16 and 22%.
Myocardial oxygen consumption per unit of oxygen delivered to peripheral tissues increased substantially with progressive hemodilution. In the presence of the reduced arterial oxygen content the augmented myocardial oxygen demand limits the overall adaptability to hemodilution by an exhaustion of the coronary dilatory capacity.
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von Restorff, W., Höfling, B., Holtz, J. et al. Effect of increased blood fluidity through hemodilution on coronary circulation at rest and during exercise in dogs. Pflugers Arch. 357, 15–24 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00584541
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