Despite surgical proficiency and innovation driving low mortality rates in cardiac surgery, the
disease severity, comorbidity rate, and operative procedural difficulty have increased …

Despite current advances in perioperative care, intraoperative myocardial protection during
cardiac surgery has not kept the same pace. High potassium cardioplegic solutions were …

OBJECTIVE: Aged hearts are more vulnerable than mature hearts to reperfusion injury
during cardiac surgery because of altered cardiomyocyte Ca2+ homeostasis. Inasmuch as …

Phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance (31P NMR) can estimate tissue intracellular pH
as well as the content of high-energy phosphate metabolites in isolated perfused hearts. We …

We conducted a prospective randomized trial to compare del Nido (DN) cardioplegia with
conventional cold blood cardioplegia (St Thomas [STH]) in pediatric patients. We …

We studied left ventricular endomyocardial adenosine triphospate levels in 13 large mongrel
dogs before and during ventricular fibrillation induced cardiac arrest to assess whether …

To determine the contribution of complete cardioplegia to the preservation of left ventricular
(LV) function, we put ultrasonic transducers in the anterior and posterior walls of the left …

Abstract Objectives To investigate Stone Heart Syndrome (SHS) as consequence of
prolonged ischemic arrest in an experimental study on pigs in regards to onset of SHS and …

It is now appreciated that mitochondrial creatine kinase (CKm) may play an important role in
heart high-energy phosphate metabolism and that this isozyme is solubilized in vitro by …

To investigate whether retrograde continuous low-pressure perfusion of the coronary sinus
could deliver cardioplegic solutions with oxygen and substrate beyond stenoses and result …