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Myocardial Stunning

Known as: Myocardial Stunning [Disease/Finding], Stunning, Myocardial 
Prolonged dysfunction of the myocardium after a brief episode of severe ischemia, with gradual return of contractile activity.
National Institutes of Health

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2010
2010
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The role of oestrogen in the pathophysiologic process of
  • 2010
  • Corpus ID: 13407359
results the study by et al. , 1 and like to present a few comments to the paper. The Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy (TTC) is a cir… 
2000
2000
Recovery from myocardial stunning is faster with desflurane compared with propofol in chronically instrumented dogs.
Volatile anesthetics exert a protective role in myocardial ischemia. An increase in sympathetic tone might exert deleterious… 
1999
1999
In search of the proteins that cause myocardial stunning.
Cardiac diseases are characterized by a host of changes to the cellular processes that affect contractility of the heart. One… 
1999
1999
Attenuation of myocardial stunning by the AT1 receptor antagonist candesartan
Abstract The effect of AT1 receptor blockade on myocardial stunning is still somewhat ambiguous. In some prior studies, coronary… 
Review
1998
Review
1998
Why myocardial stunning is clinically important
Stunning has been described in every species studied so far, and there is no reason to suspect that humans are the exception. The… 
1998
1998
17-Beta estradiol regulation of myocardial glutathione and its role in protection against myocardial stunning in dogs.
We studied the effect of 2-week treatment with estradiol 17beta on myocardial glutathione concentration in dogs and isolated… 
1996
1996
Effect of Adenosine on Myocardial Stunning
Myocardial stunning (1), or postischemic myocardial contractile dysfunction, is a mechanical dysfunction that persists after… 
Review
1995
Review
1995
Common methodological problems and artifacts associated with studies of myocardial stunning in vivo
Since the original description of myocardial stunning by Heyndrickx et al. in 1975 (6), the number of studies dealing with this… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Preconditioning enhances myocardial resistance to postischaemic myocardial stunning via adenosine receptor activation.
OBJECTIVE The aim was to test a hypothesis that ischaemic preconditioning attenuates myocardial stunning via adenosine receptor… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Postischemic myocardial "stunning". Identification of major differences between the open-chest and the conscious dog and evaluation of the oxygen radical hypothesis in the conscious dog.
Recent studies suggest that oxygen-derived free radicals contribute to the pathogenesis of postischemic myocardial dysfunction… 
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