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Short-Term Angiotensin Subtype 1 Receptor Blockade Does Not Alter the Circulatory Responses to Sympathetic Nervous System Modulation in Healthy Volunteers Before and During Sevoflurane Anesthesia: Results of a Pilot Study. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 2016 Dec;30(6):1479-1484

Date

10/19/2016

Pubmed ID

27751762

DOI

10.1053/j.jvca.2016.08.012

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-84991281580 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   1 Citation

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: The mechanism of perioperative hypotension in patients taking an angiotensin-receptor blocker up to the time of surgery remains unclear. This study tested the hypothesis that short-term angiotensin-receptor blocker treatment attenuated the sympathetic and vascular responses to autonomic stimuli in volunteers undergoing anesthesia.

DESIGN: Randomized, crossover, blinded, pilot design.

SETTING: Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI.

PARTICIPANTS: The study comprised 8 male and 6 female healthy, young volunteers (age 23±1.2 years [mean±standard error of the mean]).

INTERVENTIONS: Volunteers were studied after receiving oral placebo or 50 mg of losartan (angiotensin-receptor blocker) for 3 days before each test day. The effectiveness of angiotensin-receptor blocker treatment was confirmed using the mean arterial blood pressure response to intravenous angiotensin II (1-µg bolus). Eight volunteers underwent direct mean arterial pressure and forearm bloodflow measurements during conscious baseline, a cold pressor test, induction of anesthesia, tracheal intubation, maintenance of anesthesia with 1 minimum alveolar concentration of sevoflurane, and airway irritation with 12% desflurane. Six volunteers experienced mean arterial pressure responses to 0.1 mg of phenylephrine at baseline and during 1 minimum alveolar concentration of sevoflurane.

MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Comparisons were made over time and across groups. Angiotensin-receptor blocker treatment significantly reduced-mean arterial pressure and forearm vascular resistance (forearm blood flow/mean arterial pressure) over time and blocked the mean arterial pressure response to angiotensin-II challenge. The changes in mean arterial pressure and forearm vascular resistance in response to all stressors did not differ between treatments. Mean arterial pressure increases from phenylephrine were preserved.

CONCLUSIONS: In healthy, young volunteers, sympathetically-mediated responses from the short-term use of an angiotensin-receptor blocker were not altered and most likely did not contribute to perioperative hypotension during the intraoperative period.

Author List

Arain SR, Freed JK, Novalija J, Pagel PS, Ebert TJ

Authors

Thomas J. Ebert MD, PhD Adjunct Professor in the Anesthesiology department at Medical College of Wisconsin
Julie K. Freed MD, PhD Vice Chair, Associate Professor in the Anesthesiology department at Medical College of Wisconsin
Jutta Novalija MD, PhD Professor in the Anesthesiology department at Medical College of Wisconsin

MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Adult
Anesthetics, Inhalation
Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Blockers
Arterial Pressure
Cross-Over Studies
Double-Blind Method
Female
Forearm
Healthy Volunteers
Humans
Losartan
Male
Methyl Ethers
Phenylephrine
Pilot Projects
Sympathetic Nervous System
Vascular Resistance
Vasoconstrictor Agents
Young Adult