Ischaemic preconditioning and myocardial adaptation to serial intracoronary balloon inflation: cut from the same cloth?

Faircloth, M E; Redwood, S R; Marber, M S · Heart · 2004

editorial · Level V

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Abstract

Elective percutaneous coronary intervention fulfils many of the criteria needed of a clinical model of ischaemic preconditioning. But is this really a reflection of the laboratory phenomenon of ischaemic preconditioning?

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