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(Circulation. 2000;101:2185.)
© 2000 American Heart Association, Inc.
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Increased Diastolic Chamber Stiffness During Demand Ischemia
Response to Quick Length Change Differentiates Rigor-Activated From Calcium-Activated Tension
From the Cardiac Muscle Research Laboratory, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass.
Correspondence to Niraj Varma, MRCP, Cardiac Muscle Research Laboratory X720, Boston University School of Medicine, 650 Albany St, Boston MA 02118.
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Background—Increased diastolic chamber stiffness (
DCS) during angina (demand
ischemia) has been postulated to be generated by increased
diastolic myocyte calcium concentration.
Methods and Results—We reproduced demand ischemia in
isolated isovolumically contracting red-cell–perfused rabbit hearts by
imposing pacing tachycardia during global low
coronary blood flow (32% of baseline). This increased lactate
production without increasing oxygen consumption and resulted
in DCS (isovolumic left ventricular
end-diastolic pressure [LVEDP] increased 10 mm Hg,
P<0.001, n=38). To determine the mechanism of DCS,
we assessed responses to a quick-stretch-release maneuver (QSR), in
which the intraventricular balloon was rapidly
inflated and deflated to achieve a 3% circumferential muscle fiber
length change. QSR was first validated as an effective method of
discriminating between calcium-driven and rigor-mediated DCS. QSR
imposed during demand ischemia when DCS had increased (LVEDP
pretachycardia versus posttachycardia, 15±1
versus 27±2 mm Hg, P<0.001, n=6) reduced DCS to
pretachycardia values (LVEDP post-QSR, 15±1 mm Hg,
P<0.001), ie, elicited a response characteristic of
rigor, without any component of calcium-generated tension.
Conclusions—A rigor force, possibly resulting from high-energy phosphate depletion and/or an increase in ADP, appears to be the primary mechanism underlying increased DCS in this model of global LV demand ischemia.
Key Words: diastole • angina • rigor
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Increased diastolic chamber stiffness during angina manifests as an increase in left ventricular end-diastolic pressure (LVEDP)1 2 relative to LV volume3 and has been reproduced in animal models by pacing tachycardia imposed during regional4 or global5 low-flow ischemia. Diastolic persistence of increased intracellular calcium has been postulated to be the responsible mechanism.6 In other experimental ischemic states, some data support a calcium-driven mechanism for increased diastolic tension,7 8 but other data support a mechanism of rigor, resulting from decreased ATP,9 10 11 possibly in conjunction with increased ADP.12 13 14
Here, in a model using isolated hearts subjected to global demand ischemia, we used a myocardial quick-stretch-release (QSR) maneuver to discriminate rigor from calcium-activated tension.15 16 QSR imposed during diastolic dysfunction resulting from demand ischemia elicited responses characteristic of a pure rigor-bond–mediated increase in tension, suggesting that a calcium-mediated tension was not involved.
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The experimental preparation has been described in detail previously.17 Notably, we used an isolated, isovolumic (balloon-in-LV) red-cell–perfused rabbit heart preparation (37°C). Diastolic chamber stiffness was indexed by isovolumic LVEDP,5 17 and myocardial oxygen consumption, lactate assays, and tissue levels of ATP were derived as before.17
Quick-Stretch-Release
Quick alterations in LV balloon volume were performed by a
moving piston driven by compressed air that could deliver and withdraw
the same aliquot of fluid into and out of the
intraventricular balloon in 0.5 second. The volume
was varied precisely for each individual heart to equal 25% of the
baseline balloon volume, corresponding to a circumference increment
of 
3%.
Animals received humane care in compliance with the "Principles of Laboratory Animal Care" formulated by the National Society for Medical Research and the Guide for Care and Use of Laboratory Animals prepared by the National Academy of Sciences (NIH publication 85-23, revised 1985).
Experimental Protocols
Stabilization Period
During initial stabilization (30 minutes), all hearts were
perfused at a constant coronary flow rate that elicited a
coronary perfusion pressure of 80 mm Hg (normoxia) and
paced at a "physiological" resting rate of 3
Hz. The LV balloon volume was adjusted to achieve a stable LVEDP of
20 mm Hg. This relatively high LVEDP was selected because (1) a
high LVEDP is frequent in heart failure associated with
coronary artery disease; (2) the heart is functioning on the
steep part of the pressure-volume curve, and any changes in
diastolic chamber stiffness might be more apparent; and (3)
a higher LVEDP producing an increase in wall stress served to enhance
the metabolic demand aspect of this model.
Demand Ischemia
Demand ischemia was reproduced by imposition of combined
ischemia and tachycardia to increase
metabolic demand (n=38).
To impose ischemia, coronary blood flow was reduced to achieve a coronary perfusion pressure of 20 mm Hg, and flow was then held constant at this level. This degree of coronary perfusion pressure is comparable to the perfusion pressure distal to severe coronary stenoses in patients with angina.18
To increase metabolic demand, the pacing rate was increased to 7 Hz, ie, tachycardia. When isovolumic LVEDP had risen 10 mm Hg above the pretachycardia level, indicating a physiologically significant increase in diastolic chamber stiffness, tachycardia was terminated (pacing rate returned to 3 Hz), but reduced coronary flow (at a constant rate) continued. Then, to demonstrate reversibility of increased diastolic chamber stiffness, coronary flow was returned to baseline rates 5 minutes after tachycardia termination (n=7).
Two separate control groups were studied to validate the above model of demand ischemia. Hearts in 1 group, tachycardia without ischemia, underwent 30 minutes of tachycardia (7 Hz) while coronary blood flow was allowed to increase to maintain a constant coronary perfusion pressure of 80 mm Hg, ie, increased metabolic demand without accompanying ischemia (n=6). In the other group, ischemia without tachycardia, hearts underwent 30 minutes of underperfusion at a constant coronary flow rate that elicited a coronary perfusion pressure of 20 mm Hg while pacing was continued at a baseline rate of 3 Hz, ie, no increased metabolic demand was imposed (n=6).
To determine whether an increase in LVEDP was related to reduced [ATP], ATP content in hearts subjected to demand ischemia (n=5) and freeze-clamped when LVEDP had increased 10 mm Hg was compared with that in hearts subjected to ischemia without tachycardia (n=5) and freeze-clamped at time points matched to an equivalent duration of ischemia for each heart in the demand ischemia group.
In all experiments, hemodynamic and metabolic measurements were obtained every 5 minutes.
Quick-Stretch-Release
First, QSR was delivered at baseline to assess whether the
maneuver itself would have any effects on function (normoxia, n=7).
Then, QSR was validated as an effective method of distinguishing
between rigor-mediated and calcium-driven increases in
diastolic chamber stiffness in the isolated heart. Rigor
contracture was created by imposing sustained zero-flow
ischemia after initial stabilization (zero-flow
ischemia, n=6).10 When LVEDP had increased
10 mm Hg, QSR was performed.
QSR was then performed in a model in which increased
diastolic chamber stiffness was produced by a mechanism
known to be generated by diastolic calcium persistence
(n=6). After initial stabilization, LV balloon volume was adjusted to
produce an LVEDP of 16±1 mm Hg, but thereafter volume was not
changed. An intracoronary infusion of 5 mmol/L caffeine
and 5 mmol/L calcium chloride was then commenced under normoxic
conditions. Caffeine impairs sarcoplasmic reticular calcium reuptake
and increases intracellular diastolic calcium, resulting in
slowed and incomplete relaxation. In the presence of caffeine, calcium
involved in continued contractile activity is handled predominantly by
the sodium-calcium exchanger.19 20 Additional calcium
loading during caffeine exposure further increased
diastolic chamber stiffness. When isovolumic LVEDP had
increased 10 mm Hg, QSR was performed, and then calcium and
caffeine infusions were terminated.
Finally, to elucidate the mechanism of increased diastolic
tension in demand ischemia, QSR was applied during the
prolonged diastole immediately after
tachycardia termination when LVEDP had increased 10
mm Hg during the demand ischemia protocol described above
(demand ischemia, n=6).
Statistical Analysis
Data are reported as the mean±SEM. Data acquired by repeated
sequential measurements in individual hearts were tested by ANOVA for
repeated measures. Statistical comparisons between groups were
performed by 2-way ANOVA. If overall ANOVA indicated a significant
difference of groups, trials, or interaction, values at specific time
points were examined by the method of least significant differences. A
value of P<0.05 was considered significant.
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Demand Ischemia
Hemodynamic Characteristics
In hearts subjected to demand ischemia (n=38), a decrease in coronary perfusion pressure from 80 to 20 mm Hg (reduction in coronary blood flow from 1.05±0.03 to 0.34±0.01 mL · min-1 · g LV wet wt-1, P<0.001) reduced LV systolic pressure (LVSP) from 123±2 to 63±2 mm Hg (P<0.001) and LVEDP from 20 to 17±1 mm Hg (P<0.001), representing a loss in coronary vascular turgor (Figures 1
and 2a).21 Results from a
typical experiment are illustrated in Figure 1. Imposition of
tachycardia caused an immediate small increase in
isovolumic LVEDP (incomplete relaxation), followed by a more gradual
increase in LVEDP. A rise in LVEDP occurred in all hearts (mean,
15.3±0.9 minutes per 10 mm Hg increase). After LVEDP had
increased 10 mm Hg, tachycardia was terminated
(pacing rate returned to 3 Hz), but coronary flow continued at
its ischemic level. In this phase, LVEDP remained elevated by
7±1 mm Hg compared with pretachycardia levels
(P<0.001), representing a stable increase in
diastolic chamber stiffness resulting from increased
metabolic demand during low-flow perfusion.
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tachycardia without ischemia (
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ischemia without tachycardia (
). n=6 per group.
See text for details. *P<0.001;
P<0.025.
Reversibility
In hearts undergoing reperfusion (n=7), LVEDP returned to baseline
(22±2 mm Hg) and LVSP recovered (88±4 mm Hg) within 5
minutes, indicating the rapidly reversible nature of the
ischemic increase in diastolic chamber
stiffness.
Hearts subjected to tachycardia without ischemia or
to ischemia without tachycardia demonstrated no
significant increase in LVEDP (Figure 2a
). Thus, neither
tachycardia alone nor low-flow ischemia alone was
sufficient, but the combination, ie, demand ischemia, resulted
in increased diastolic chamber stiffness.
Metabolic Characteristics
With the onset of ischemia (demand ischemia and
ischemia without tachycardia groups), hearts
switched from net myocardial lactate consumption to net lactate
production (Figure 2b and 2c). In ischemia
without tachycardia, lactate production then
remained constant. In contrast, in demand ischemia,
tachycardia further increased lactate production
(demand ischemia, 0.45±0.03 versus ischemia without
tachycardia, 0.12±0.03 [µmol/L] ·
mL-1 · min-1
· g LV wet wt-1, P<0.005). Lactate
production was also greater in demand ischemia than in
hearts subjected to tachycardia without
ischemia.
Oxygen consumption decreased in both demand ischemia and ischemia without tachycardia. Imposition of tachycardia in demand ischemia did not alter oxygen consumption. In tachycardia without ischemia oxygen, conversely, consumption increased during tachycardia. Hence, hearts in demand ischemia in which coronary flow was restricted were unable to increase oxygen consumption when energy demand was increased by tachycardia, in contrast to the group in which coronary flow was allowed to increase commensurately with increased metabolic demand.
ATP Content
We have previously reported a baseline ATP content of
18.01±2.00 µmol/L ATP/g LV dry wt in this experimental
preparation.17 Hearts subjected to demand ischemia
(isovolumic LVEDP pretachycardia versus
posttachycardia [15±2 minutes], 17±1 versus 26±1
mm Hg, P<0.001) had an ATP content of 9.12±1.76
(µmol/L)/g LV dry wt, ie, a 50% reduction at the point at which
LVEDP had increased 10 mm Hg. In ischemia without
tachycardia (ischemia duration, 14±3 minutes),
LVEDP remained unaltered, and ATP content was 10.78±0.94 (µmol/L)/g
LV dry wt (P=NS versus demand ischemia). Thus, these
2 groups did not differ in end-ischemic [ATP], despite the
imposition of tachycardia and the development of increased
diastolic chamber stiffness in the demand ischemia
group.
Quick-Stretch-Release
Groups of hearts in which QSR was performed had similar baseline
hemodynamic characteristics before interventions were
performed (Figures 3 through 7). QSR at
baseline (normoxia, n=7) did not affect function (pre-QSR versus
post-QSR LVEDP, 20±1 versus 19±1 mm Hg, P=NS; LVSP,
122±3 versus 121±4 mm Hg, P=NS) (Figure 3).
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With zero-flow ischemia (n=6), hearts rapidly became
asystolic and LVEDP initially decreased (16±1 mm Hg)
(Figure 4; Reference
21 ). During sustained ischemia (18±4
minutes), LVEDP progressively increased, resulting in ischemic
contracture ("classic rigor"10 ). QSR at this point
instantly lysed this rigor tension (LVEDP pre-QSR versus post-QSR,
27±1 versus 17±1 mm Hg, P<0.001), ie, LV
diastolic pressure decreased to precontracture values with
no tension recovery.
When increased diastolic chamber stiffness occurring from
increased cytosolic diastolic calcium was created by
intracoronary infusion of caffeine and calcium chloride (n=6,
Figure 5), LVEDP increased from a
baseline of 16±1 to 28±1 mm Hg (P<0.001). QSR
imposed at this point had no effect on increased diastolic
tension or systolic function (pre-QSR versus post-QSR: LVEDP,
27±1 versus 26±1 mm Hg, P=NS; LVSP, 111±5 versus
109±5 mm Hg, P=NS). LVEDP, however, returned to
baseline values on termination of infusion. Hence, the different
responses of increased LVEDP to QSR between rigor bonds in classic
rigor compared with a calcium-driven mechanism validated QSR as a
method of discriminating rigor- versus calcium-mediated increases in
diastolic chamber stiffness.
In demand ischemia, tachycardia was terminated
after LVEDP had increased from 15±1 to 27±2 mm Hg
(P<0.001, n=6). QSR subsequent to tachycardia
immediately lysed increased diastolic tension (LVEDP
pre-QSR versus post-QSR, 27±2 versus 15±1 mm Hg,
P<0.001), ie, chamber stiffness returned to baseline
(Figure 6). The decrement of LVEDP
produced by QSR was identical in magnitude to the upward shift of
isovolumic LVEDP sustained during pacing tachycardia.
Hence, QSR during demand ischemia elicited a response similar
to that with rigor contracture associated with zero-flow
ischemia but unlike that with calcium-activated
increased diastolic tension (Figure 7).
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The acute and reversible decrease in diastolic distensibility during angina due to sustained actin-myosin interaction during diastole may be related to myocardial ATP depletion (with a concomitant increase in ADP) resulting in rigor, to diastolic persistence of an increased intracellular calcium concentration, or to a combination of the 2. In the present study using a model simulating some of the features of demand ischemia during angina, responses to quick length changes support a rigor mechanism, without involvement of a calcium-driven tension.
In this model, we reproduced reversible diastolic
dysfunction with demand ischemia: isovolumic LVEDP increased
with combined low-flow ischemia and tachycardia but
not with either ischemia or tachycardia alone and
was characterized by increased lactate production with an
inability to increase oxygen consumption (Figures 1 and 2). Here, the globally ischemic LV served to model the
regionally ischemic region in a patient with angina or a
large-animal model with single coronary artery
stenosis. This, by imposing homogeneous conditions
throughout the LV, facilitated determination of mechanisms underlying
diastolic dysfunction. However, reduction of
coronary artery perfusion pressure before
tachycardia, with a marked global reduction in
coronary artery flow, resulted in profound contractile
dysfunction. Systolic dysfunction of this degree does not
usually accompany regional ischemia or angina unless there is
also severe global ischemia, eg, left main or 3-vessel disease,
severe aortic stenosis, or systemic hypotension and
tachycardia. Hence, our model does not simulate all the
hemodynamic features observed during regional demand
ischemia in humans or large-animal models (in which resting
coronary flow in a stenotic segment and contractile
function may remain unchanged), and this limitation prevents direct
extrapolation of our results to clinical angina.
Quick-Stretch-Release
The QSR maneuver, in which a sudden increment (1% to 10%) in
length is followed by a rapid return to baseline length, has been used
to distinguish between calcium-activated and rigor tension in
unstimulated skeletal16 and papillary15
muscle. After QSR, rigor bonds are characterized by tension lysis and
by failure of immediate tension redevelopment, so that poststretch
tension remains markedly reduced relative to the prestretch level. In
contrast, QSR imposed on muscle with continuous
calcium-activated cross-bridge cycling is followed by
incomplete lysis and by a rapid redevelopment of tension to its
prestretch value.
Here, QSR was similarly applied in the actively contracting isolated
heart without deleterious effects (Figure 3). During tonic
contracture due to classic ischemic rigor, QSR caused
immediate, complete, and sustained lysis of diastolic
tension (Figure 4), but when an increase in
diastolic chamber stiffness was driven by
diastolic persistence of calcium, QSR failed to alter
diastolic tension (Figure 5).
Thus, we could examine effects of QSR under specific conditions in
which diastolic dysfunction occurred in contracting hearts.
We hypothesized that in demand ischemia, if increased LVEDP
were produced by persistent cross-bridge cycling, equivalent to a state
of sustained partial systole due to diastolic persistence
of increased calcium, then QSR would cause no significant lysis of
diastolic tension. Conversely, if rigor force were
responsible, QSR should effectively lyse this tension. If a combination
of these mechanisms were operative, then an intermediate response would
be predicted. In our model, QSR produced complete lysis of increased
diastolic tension resulting from demand ischemia, a
behavior typical of rigor without any component of a calcium-driven
tension (Figures 6 and 7).
Subcellular Mechanisms of Increased Diastolic Tension
The subcellular mechanisms underlying increased chamber stiffness
in demand ischemia have received relatively little study. One
report proposed a mechanism of increased diastolic myocyte
calcium concentration based on the observation that exposure to
caffeine during the last 30 seconds of pacing tachycardia
exacerbated the degree of increased diastolic chamber
stiffness sustained during demand ischemia.6
However, this conclusion is confounded because caffeine itself may have
contributed importantly to cytosolic calcium overload. For example,
increased diastolic chamber stiffness can occur in normoxic
hearts on exposure to caffeine: in our experimental model (Figure 5), caffeine increased LVEDP, which was further exaggerated by
superimposed calcium loading. Thus, the observation that caffeine
augmented an increase in ischemic diastolic
stiffness does not prove that the initial ischemia-induced
increase in stiffness itself was calcium-driven.
In contrast, many previous studies have investigated the mechanism of ischemic contracture in a variety of models, eg, hearts in situ or subjected to hypoxia or zero-flow ischemia, or isolated muscle strips or myocytes subjected to metabolic inhibition. Under these conditions, an increase in diastolic calcium level has been widely reported,7 8 consistent with a calcium-driven mechanism for the contracture. This remains an appealing explanation, although no cause-and-effect relation has been definitively established. Others report no correlation between increased myocyte calcium and increased diastolic tension9 22 and favor an alternative mechanism of rigor.9 10 11 23 These models, however, comprise a heterogeneous group of ischemic states, and their results may not be readily extrapolated to the demand ischemia of clinical angina.
Our result of diastolic tension lysis by QSR during demand ischemia supports a rigor mechanism secondary to ATP depletion as the basis of increased diastolic chamber stiffness. However, we could not demonstrate a lower average tissue [ATP] in hearts subjected to demand ischemia (in which an increase in diastolic chamber stiffness occurred) compared with hearts subjected to similar ischemia but without tachycardia, in which no increase in diastolic tension occurred. In both groups, [ATP] decreased by only 50%. Thus, we could not correlate the increase in ischemic diastolic tension with total tissue ATP depletion.
However, these ATP measurements do not rule out rigor tension as the
mechanism for the increase in ischemic diastolic
chamber stiffness. Rigor tension may be generated in the presence of
only modest reductions in [ATP] when [ADP]
increases12 13 14 and may be correlated with increased
diastolic stiffness.14 We cannot be certain,
however, that [ADP] increased in this demand ischemia model,
because it did not increase significantly in other studies of low-flow
ischemia from our laboratory.24 Nevertheless, even
severe ATP depletion occurring in only a small group of myocytes would
be undetected by measurements of total tissue [ATP]. During demand
ischemia, a population of more severely energy-deprived
myocytes vulnerable to rigor may be interspersed among normally
contracting cells. Experiments in isolated myocytes have
consistently demonstrated inexcitability and contractile
failure at the time of rigor shortening.25 Thus, in the
isolated heart undergoing demand ischemia, the continued
development of phasic contractile force when diastolic
pressure is elevated is consistent with the idea that some
myocytes are not in a rigor state and are capable of contracting,
whereas others are in a rigor state and are inexcitable. In isolated
hearts, cell-by-cell electron microscopy revealed a highly
heterogeneous distribution of development of
ischemic contracture when diastolic chamber
stiffness had increased during low-flow
ischemia.26 The extent of diastolic
chamber stiffness increase may be related to the number of myocytes in
rigor, which may progressively increase with continued demand
ischemia (Figure 1). Contracture may be reversible, as
demonstrated here when the supply-demand mismatch was corrected and as
observed during reoxygenation of anoxic
myocytes.22
Characteristics of the Model
Our experimental preparation confers many advantages for modeling
demand ischemia. The right ventricle is decompressed and the
pericardium freed, which eliminates interactions with the LV. The heart
is subjected to global underperfusion, which prevents the confounding
mechanical influence of dyssynchronous contraction of ischemic
and nonischemic segments associated with regional
ischemia. The isovolumic preparation allows the use of QSR as
an investigative tool. Use of a red-cell perfusate at 37°C
containing glucose (5.5 mmol/L) and free fatty acid at a normal
ratio of FFA to albumin provides normal levels of the major
myocardial substrates and ensures a normal rate of oxygen delivery at
physiological coronary flow rates.
Elucidation of diastolic dysfunction during demand
ischemia in isolated heart appears to require a critical
interplay and relationship between coronary flow, energy
supply, and energy demand. For example, we have found it impossible to
reproduce demand ischemia–induced increases in LVEDP in hearts
perfused with crystalloid solutions or at temperatures <37°C.
In summary, in this model of demand ischemia in the isolated heart in which we simulated features of diastolic anginal physiology, responses to quick length changes supported a mechanism of a reversible rigor-like tension underlying increased diastolic chamber stiffness and not a calcium-driven force.
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This research was supported in part by US Public Health Service grant HL-48175. Dr Varma is a recipient of a Physician-Investigator fellowship of the Massachusetts Affiliate of the American Heart Association (13-614-923).
Received October 7, 1999; revision received December 13, 1999; accepted December 22, 1999.
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