Pharmacological and morphological effects of in vitro transluminal balloon angioplasty on normal and vasospastic canine basilar arteries

Patrick D. S. Chan Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Pharmacology, Surgical Medical Research Institute, and Department of Radiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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J. Max Findlay Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Pharmacology, Surgical Medical Research Institute, and Department of Radiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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Bozena Vollrath Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Pharmacology, Surgical Medical Research Institute, and Department of Radiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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✓ Despite growing clinical use of transluminal balloon angioplasty (TBA) to treat cerebral vasospasm after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), the precise mechanism of action of balloon dilation on the cerebral arterial wall is unknown. In this experiment the authors examined the pharmacological and morphological changes in 10 normal and 12 vasospastic canine basilar arteries following in vitro silicone microballoon TBA. For the SAH group in which the double-hemorrhage model was used, vasospasm was confirmed by angiography and the animals were killed on Day 7 after the first SAH. In vitro TBA was performed on basilar arteries from normal and SAH dogs immediately after sacrifice and removal of the brain. The procedure was performed while the arteries were maintained in oxygenated Krebs buffer. In the pharmacological studies, potassium chloride, prostaglandin F2α, serotonin, and noradrenaline were used as vasoconstrictors, and bradykinin and calcium ionophore A23187 were used to produce an endothelium-dependent dilation. In both normal and vasospastic groups, the pharmacological responses of dilated segments of basilar arteries were compared to those of nondilated segments of the same arteries.

Vessels from all groups were examined using scanning electron microscopy (EM) and transmission EM. Scanning EM was used to study the intact vessel wall, the smooth-muscle cell layer obtained after digestion with hydrochloric acid, and the extracellular matrix obtained after digestion with bleach. Cross-sections of the vessel wall were examined using transmission EM.

The most striking finding was that immediately after in vitro TBA of both normal and vasospastic canine basilar arteries, there was a significant reduction (p < 0.05) of responses to both vasoconstrictors and vasorelaxants. As revealed by scanning EM and transmission EM, both normal and vasospastic vessels dilated with TBA showed flattening and patchy denudation of the endothelium, and straightening and occasional rupturing of the internal elastic lamina. In addition, vasospastic vessels dilated with TBA showed decreased surface rippling and mild stretching and straightening of smooth-muscle cells, and mild thinning of the tunica media. There was no gross vascular disruption or obvious change in the extracellular matrix of the vessel walls of either normal or vasospastic arteries after TBA. These results suggest that functional impairment of vasoreactivity in the vessel wall as a result of mechanical stretching of the smooth-muscle layer plays a more important role than structural alteration, at least in the immediate dilation produced in vasospastic arteries byTBA.

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