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Iodixanol inhibits exogenous surfactant therapy in rats with acute respiratory distress syndrome

¹ Dept of Anaesthesiology, Cardiothoracic and Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit, University Medical Centre Utrecht, ² Dept of Intensive Care, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, ³ Dept of Anaesthesiology, Erasmus University Rotterdam and ⁴ Dept of Radiology, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

CORRESPONDENCE: J. Kesecioglu, Dept of Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic and Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit, Division of Perioperative Medicine and Emergency Care, University Medial Center Utrecht, Mail Stop, E03-511, P.O. Box 85500, 3508 GA Utrecht, The Netherlands. Fax: 31 302541828. E-mail: j.kesecioglu@azu.nl

Keywords: exogenous surfactant, iodixanol, lung lavage, oxygenation, respiratory distress, surface tension

Received: July 3, 2001
Accepted December 12, 2001

Optimal alveolar distribution of exogenous surfactant is an important determinant of its beneficial effect. This distribution can be determined by suspending surfactant in a radiological contrast medium before intratracheal instillation, followed by radiological imaging. Iodixanol is reported to be a safe contrast medium that causes no lung injury when instilled intratracheally.

In this study, the effects of surfactant suspended in saline were compared with surfactant suspended either in 4:1 saline-iodixanol (64 mg iodine·mL^–1) or in 1:1 saline-iodixanol (160 mg iodine·mL^–1), on oxygenation and lung mechanics in a rat model of adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) induced by lung lavage.

After the induction of ARDS, surfactant instillation improved oxygenation, total lung volume at inflation with a distending pressure of 35 cmH₂O, lung volume at transpulmonary pressure of 5 cmH₂O and Gruenwald index. The effects of surfactant suspended in 4:1 saline-iodixanol were similar to those of surfactant alone. However, instillation of surfactant suspended in 1:1 saline-iodixanol resulted in significantly lower values in all measured parameters. Surface tension was the lowest in surfactant suspended in saline alone and addition of iodixanol led to an increase in surface tension in a dose-dependent manner.

In conclusion, iodixanol at the higher dose caused an inhibition of the exogenous surfactant effect, characterized as a lack of improvement in oxygen tension in arterial blood, low total lung compliance, volume at 5 cmH₂O end-expiration and Gruenwald index. This effect of iodixanol was probably due to its high surface tension, especially if a high concentration was used. Surfactant suspended in a lower concentration of iodixanol seems a better alternative, allowing for radiological imaging of the distribution of surfactant when intratracheally instilled.