Published in Law and Health Weekly, September 24th, 2005
According to a report from the United States, "The objective of this study was to determine whether acutely ischemic myocardium may be conditioned during percutaneous coronary intervention for acute myocardial infarction."
W.K Laskey of the University of New Mexico wrote, "Ischemic preconditioning is a powerful cardioprotective mechanism that limits infarct size in animal investigations and ischemic sequelae during percutaneous coronary intervention in man. However, the conditioning stimulus in previous studies has been...
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