Free radicals and cardiac arrhythmias following coronary surgery: Actors of the drama or bystanders of the spectacle?

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 639-642

  Marczin, Nandor ^a   El Habashi, N ^a   Royston, D ^a  

^a HAREFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTIOXIDANT; CATALASE; DEFEROXAMINE; DIMETHYLTHIOUREA; FREE RADICAL; GLUTATHIONE; ISOPROSTANE DERIVATIVE; LIPID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PEPTIDE; PROSTANOID; PROTEIN; STEROID; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TIOPRONIN; TIRILAZAD;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIST; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; BYSTANDER EFFECT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONVALESCENCE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DEFIBRILLATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; EDITORIAL; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART SUPRAVENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INOTROPISM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIPID OXIDATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPERFUSION INJURY; SINUS NODE CONDUCTION VELOCITY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT FAILURE; URINE VOLUME;

ARRHYTHMIA; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FREE RADICALS; HUMANS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0038206724     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-6576.2003.00136.x     Document Type: Editorial

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