Endogenous release of catecholamines is an important mechanism that can prevent alveolar flooding after brief but severe hemorrhagic shock. The objective of this study was to determine whether this catecholamine-dependent mechanism upregulates alveolar liquid clearance after prolonged hemorrhagic shock. Rats were hemorrhaged to a mean arterial pressure of 30-35 mmHg for 60 min and then resuscitated with a 4% albumin solution. Alveolar liquid clearance was measured 5 h later as the concentration of protein in the distal air spaces over 1 h after instillation of a 5% albumin solution into one lung. There was no upregulation of alveolar liquid clearance after prolonged hemorrhagic shock and fluid resuscitation despite a significant increase in plasma epinephrine levels. The intravenous or intra-alveolar administration of exogenous catecholamines did not upregulate alveolar liquid clearance. In contrast, catecholamine-mediated upregulation of alveolar liquid clearance was restored either by depletion of neutrophils with vinblastine, by the normalization of the concentration of reduced glutathione in the alveolar epithelial lining fluid by N-acetylcysteine, or by the inhibition of the conversion from xanthine dehydrogenase to xanthine oxidase. These experiments provide the first in vivo evidence that a neutrophil-dependent oxidant injury to the alveolar epithelium prevents the upregulation of alveolar fluid clearance by catecholamines in the absence of a major alteration in paracellular permeability to protein after prolonged hemorrhagic shock.

alveolar epithelium; -adrenergic receptor; alveolar liquid clearance; neutrophil; oxidative injury

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