Effect of Angiotensin II on the Left Ventricular Function in a Near-Term Fetal Sheep with Metabolic Acidemia.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Pregnancy Volume 2011, Article ID 634240, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2011/634240 Research Article Effect of Angiotensin II on the Left Ventricular Function in a Near-Term Fetal Sheep with Metabolic Acidemia Ganesh Acharya,1 James C. Huhta,1, 2 Mervi Haapsamo,3 Ole-Jakob How,4 5 ¨ ¨ 3, 6, 7 Tiina Erkinaro, and Juha Rasanen 1 Women’s Health and Perinatology Research Group, Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital of Northern Norway, 9038 Tromsø, Norway 2 All Children’s Hospital, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, USA 3 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oulu University Hospital, 90014 Oulu, Finland 4 Cardiovascular Research Group, Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, 9037 Tromsø, Norway 5 Department of Anesthesiology, Oulu University Hospital, 90220 Oulu, Finland 6 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kuopio University Hospital and University of Eastern Finland, 70211 Kuopio, Finland 7 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR 97201, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Ganesh Acharya, ganesh.acharya@uit.no Received 19 May 2011; Revised 17 August 2011; Accepted 17 August 2011 Academic Editor: Paulo Zielinsky Copyright © 2011 Ganesh Acharya et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We tested the hypothesis that, in acute metabolic acidemia, the fetal le