Decreasing myocardial pH reflects ischemia during continuous warm retrograde cardioplegic arrest

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 1645-1650

  Stahl, Russell F ^a   Soller, Babs R ^a   Hsi, Charles ^a   Belleisle, Janice ^a   Vander Salm, Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARDIOPLEGIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; HEART ARREST; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE METABOLISM; HEART PERFUSION; HEART PROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMAL; CARDIOPLEGIC SOLUTIONS; DOGS; HEART ARREST, INDUCED; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LACTATES; LACTIC ACID; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION INJURY; MYOCARDIAL STUNNING; MYOCARDIUM; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0027988428     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0003-4975(94)91651-9     Document Type: Article

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