Erschienen in:
01.05.2020 | Editorial
A future for remote ischaemic conditioning in high-risk patients
verfasst von:
Derek J. Hausenloy, Mpiko Ntsekhe, Derek M. Yellon
Erschienen in:
Basic Research in Cardiology
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Ausgabe 3/2020
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Excerpt
For patients presenting with an acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), the treatment priority for limiting myocardial infarct (MI) size and preventing the onset of heart failure (HF), is timely myocardial reperfusion by primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI). Despite a decline in mortality, the number of STEMI patients going onto develop post-infarct HF is on the rise. As such, there remains an urgent need to discover novel therapeutic interventions, which can be applied as an adjunct to PPCI to reduce MI size, and prevent post-infarct adverse left ventricular (LV) remodelling. …