Remote ischemic preconditioning in cardiac surgery: Caught between clinical relevance and statistical significance?

Basic Research in Cardiology

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Thielmann, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; Remote ischemic preconditioning; Risk

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN I;

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; EDITORIAL; HEART PROTECTION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ARM; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; REPERFUSION INJURY; VASCULARIZATION;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING; MALE; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION INJURY; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84858250131     PISSN: 03008428     EISSN: 14351803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00395-012-0259-3     Document Type: Editorial

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