The Myocardial Damage During Cardiac Surgery and Possible Protective Ways
Aida Kinderytė, Edmundas Širvinskas, Andrius Macas Abstract Coronary artery blood flow restoration is necessary in order to preserve the myocardial viability. Often reperfusion of ischemic area can cause cardiomyocytes dysfunction and the phenomenon known as reperfusion injury. Reperfusion can induced myocardial stunning, microvascular and endothelial injury, and cell death of apoptosis and necrosis. Ischemia/reperfusion injury…