Is cardioprotection by ischemic postconditioning abrogated in hypertrophied myocardium of spontaneously hypertensive rats?
Myocardial hypertrophy inhibits the protection by postconditioning in an experimental animal model. Future studies have to clarify whether this result can be extrapolated to patients with arterial hypertension and myocardial hypertrophy.
The presence of cryoglobulinaemia does not influence the response to alpha-IFN in patients with chronic HCV infection.