Early ischemic preconditioning for spinal cord protection [5]

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1340-1341

  Toumpoulis, Ioannis K ^a   Anagnostopoulos, Constantine E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPOTENSION; LETTER; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RABBIT; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 0141450767     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0003-4975(03)00669-6     Document Type: Letter

References (5)

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4. Toumpoulis IK, Anagnostopoulos CE, Drossos GE, Malamou-Mitsi VD, Pappa LS, Katritsis DG. Does ischemic preconditioning reduce spinal cord injury because of descending thoracic aortic occlusion? J Vasc Surg 2003;37:426-32.
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