Article Text
Editorial
Harnessing the preconditioning phenomenon: does remote organ ischaemia provide the answer?
Abstract
Despite progress in defining the cellular mechanisms of the ischaemic preconditioning phenomenon, its conversion into convenient clinical practice has been slow. The possibility that an innate mechanism of tissue resistance to ischaemia could be harnessed as a clinical tool is an attractive and enticing prospect
- angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors
- ACE inhibitors
- aortic stenosis
- atherosclerosis
- statins
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Published Online First 13 September 2005
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The authors have no competing interests to declare.