Population
9 isolated rabbit hearts (6 bovine red blood cell-perfused, 3 buffer-perfused)
Comparison
Infusion of varying concentrations of… vs Control state (baseline without BDM)
Design
Preclinical
Authors
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Supports partitioning myocardial VO2 in rabbit hearts; leaves open validation before any clinical use.
The use of BDM in a low concentration range is a feasible method to partition myocardial oxygen consumption into mechanical and nonmechanical components in the whole rabbit heart.
Yaku et al. (1993) studied this question.
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