%0 Journal Article %T Influ¨ºncia do isoflurano na contratilidade mioc¨¢rdica e fluxo coronariano de cora£¿£¿es isolados de ratos %A Valle %A Guilherme Gustavo do %A Neves %A Hu¨¦verson Junqueira %A Gomes %A Eros Silva %A Christo %A Marcelo B. Campos %A Gomes %A Otoni M. %J Revista Brasileira de Cirurgia Cardiovascular %D 1998 %I Sociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia Cardiovascular %R 10.1590/S0102-76381998000300011 %X eighteen adult rat hearts were studied by langendorff's technique under krebs-henseleit solution perfusion (90 ¡À 10 cm of h2o pressure, 36.5 ¡À 0.5¡ãc temperature). nine rats were assigned to two groups: group i - control group and group ii - isoflurane group. hearts in group ii were treated with isoflurane at 1.5%. after stabilization during 15 minutes, initial values were obtained (t0), the next parameters were registered over the following periods: 1, 2, 4, 6, 10 minutes, respectively. there were no statistically significant variations in systolic pressure nor in dp/dt (p > 0.05) in period t1 in both groups. an increase was observed in diastolic pressure, statistically significant in group ii (4.8 mmhg - t0 period; 12.8 mmhg - t1 period). there was a decrease in heart rate and increase in coronary flow in group ii, statistically significant(p < 0.05), one minute after drug infusion. the coronary flow decreased progressively in every recovery period (t2 t0 t5) in group ii (p < 0.05). during the same periods there were no statistically significant variations in group i. isoflurane increases coronary flow during its administration, decreasing it during the recovery periods; it decreases heart rate, increases diastolic pressure and shows evidence of myocardial contractility depression in isolated rat hearts. %K isoflurane [pharmacology] %K anesthetics [inhalation] %K anesthetics [pharmacology] %K myocardial contraction [drug effects] %K coronary circulation [drug effects] %K heart rate [drug effects]. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0102-76381998000300011&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en