Does postconditioning protect against endothelial ischemia-reperfusion injury in the human forearm?
This study demonstrates for the first time that postconditioning can protect against endothelial IR injury in humans. Postconditioning might reduce tissue injury when applied at the onset of reperfusion by modifying the reperfusion phase of IR.
The symptom complex of abdominal, chest and/or arm pain is strongly associated with the presence of TCAD and sudden death or resuscitated sudden death in pediatric heart transplant recipients.