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Effect of supplemental oxygen exposure on myocardial injury in ST-elevation myocardial infarction
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- Published on: 29 September 2016
- Published on: 29 September 2016Oxygen is toxic during reoxygenation in STEMI patients as well as in other clinical conditionsShow More
Nehme and coworkers tested out the effect of air versus oxygen on myocardial injury in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).1 When administered in the first 12 hours after STEMI oxygen was associated with a dose-dependent increase in troponin and creatine kinase. In 2015 the same group of investigators published a study in Circulation showing that air instead of oxygen supplementation in STEMI led to improved outco...
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