Published in Law and Health Weekly, June 24th, 2006
Study 1: Aprotinin attenuates the elevation of pulmonary vascular resistance after cardiopulmonary bypass.
According to a study from South Korea, "Pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) is generally believed to be elevated after cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) due to whole body inflammation. Aprotinin has an anti-inflammatory action, and it was hypothesized that aprotinin would attenuate the PVR increase induced by CPB."
T.J. Yun and J.R. Rho at the University of Ulsan wrote, "Ten mongrel dogs were placed under moderately hypothermic CPB for 2...
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