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Myocardial Protection
Author(s) -
WECHSLER ANDREW S.,
ABDELFATTAH ANWAR S.,
MURPHY CHARLES E.,
SALTER DAVID R.,
BRUNSTING LOUIS A.,
GOLDSTEIN JACQUES P.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8191.1986.tb00715.x
Subject(s) - medicine , ischemic injury , myocardial ischemia , myocardial reperfusion injury , intensive care medicine , cardiology , ischemia
Early studies of myocardial protection were designed to minimize ischemic injury. The next class and generation of investigations will most likely be designed to accelerate recovery following known myocardial injury. Such techniques will play an important role in allowing operations on acutely injured and ischemic myocardium and will be important in the treatment of postischemic injury when such injury occurs during the course of complex cardiac operations. Surgical aspects of myocardial metabolism are still rudimentary and many empiric observations require further exploration into the mechanisms by which such applications work.