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Heart 2004;90:358-360; doi:10.1136/hrt.2003.025791
Copyright © 2004 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & British Cardiovascular Society
Heart 2004;90:358-360
© 2004 by BMJ Publishing Group & British Cardiac Society

EDITORIAL

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

M E Faircloth, S R Redwood, M S Marber

Department of Cardiology, Division of Cardiovascular Research, GKT School of Medicine, KCL, The Rayne Institute, St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK

Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Professor Michael S Marber
Department of Cardiology, KCL, The Rayne Institute, St Thomas’ Hospital, London SE1 7EH, UK; mike.marber{at}kcl.ac.uk

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?

Keywords: angina; collaterals; preconditioning


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