Clinical Application of Ischemic Preconditioning in the Elderly

• Principais autores: Pasquale Abete (Autor), Francesco Cacciatore (Autor), Gianluca Testa (Autor), David Della-Morte (Autor), Gianluigi Galizia (Autor), Nicola Ferrara (Autor), Franco Rengo (Autor)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: SAGE Publishing, 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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A mild stress such as brief ischemic episodes may protect the heart from a successive and more prolonged myocardial ischemia (ischemic preconditioning). This phenomenon is considered a typical "hormetic mechanism" by which the heart is immunized from pathological insults such as myocardial...