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Neuromuscular Function of the Latissimus Dorsi Muscle in Goats After Dynamic Cardiomyoplasty

Skeletal muscle deterioration is emerging as a limitation to long‐term cardiac assist by dynamic cardiomyoplasty. Chronic electrical stimulation of in situ skeletal muscle showed that ischemia, decreased muscle preload, muscle overuse, and chronic electrical stimulation are factors for muscle deteri...

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Published in:Pacing and clinical electrophysiology 1999-11, Vol.22 (11), p.1625-1633
Main Authors: MONNET, ERIC, ORTON, E. CHRISTOPHER, CHILD, GEORGINA, GETZY, DAVID, JACOBS, GORDON, METELMAN, LISA
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Summary:Skeletal muscle deterioration is emerging as a limitation to long‐term cardiac assist by dynamic cardiomyoplasty. Chronic electrical stimulation of in situ skeletal muscle showed that ischemia, decreased muscle preload, muscle overuse, and chronic electrical stimulation are factors for muscle deterioration. Transposition around the heart has been associated with signs of muscle denervation after chronic electrical stimulation. To evaluate latissimus dorsi muscle neuromuscular function after long‐term dynamic cardiomyoplasty, we performed neuromuscular functional analysis and histology on the latissimus dorsi muscle and thoracodorsal nerve of six normal goats and six goats after 6 months of dynamic cardiomyoplasty. Electromyographic analysis showed positive sharp waves and fibrillation potentials in the latissimus dorsi of three goats from the dynamic cardiomyoplasty group. Conduction velocity of the thoracodorsal nerve of goats from the dynamic cardiomyoplasty group (58.32 ± 9.80 m/s) was reduced compared to the goats from the control group (71.48 ± 5.71 m/s, P = 0.02). Histologic changes in skeletal muscle were compatible with denervation. Loss of myelin sheaths, collapse of endoneurial connective tissue, and solitary foci of axonophagia and myelinophagia further documented severe injury to the thoracodorsal nerve in goats from the dynamic cardiomyoplasty group. The latissimus dorsi muscle wrap was denervated after long‐term dynamic cardiomyoplasty. Traction on the neurovascular pedicle at each contraction of the transposed muscle may induce afferent axonal injury of the thoracodorsal nerve resulting in diminished muscular function.
ISSN:0147-8389
1540-8159
DOI:10.1111/j.1540-8159.1999.tb00382.x