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Ischemic Postconditioning: Not Giving Up Yet
Author(s) -
Belardi Jorge A.,
Albertal Mariano
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
catheterization and cardiovascular interventions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.988
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1522-726X
pISSN - 1522-1946
DOI - 10.1002/ccd.26788
Subject(s) - medicine , primary angioplasty , thrombus , cardiology , angioplasty , myocardial reperfusion , reperfusion injury , ischemia , myocardial infarction , percutaneous coronary intervention
Key Points Ischemic postconditioning protects against reperfusion injury. Adjunctive use of manual thrombus aspiration improves reperfusion results in patients undergoing primary angioplasty. Combining both strategies (ischemic postconditioning and thrombus aspiration) may have additive effects in terms of myocardial salvage. The PORT trial will study the role of ischemic postconditioning in patients undergoing primary angioplasty with thrombus aspiration.