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Stunned Myocardium in Warm and Cold Cardiac Surgery
Author(s) -
Mazer C. David
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/jocs.1994.9.3s.503
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiac surgery , cardiology , anesthesia
Stunned myocardium is known to occur after cardiac surgery. Although clinical data to date suggest that continuous normothermic blood cardioplegia does not result in more postoperative ventricular dysfunction, its superiority over hypothermic techniques remains controversial.