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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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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Differential effects of postconditioning on myocardial stunning and infarction: a study in conscious dogs and anesthetized rabbits.
Postconditioning, i.e., brief intermittent episodes of myocardial ischemia-reperfusion performed at the onset of reperfusion… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Modifications of myosin-regulatory light chain correlate with function of stunned myocardium.
Review
2001
Review
2001
Clinical manifestations of myocardial stunning.
The phenomenon of myocardial stunning has been observed in all animal species studied. The possible occurrence of myocardial… 
Review
2000
Review
2000
MYOCARDIAL STUNNING AND HIBERNATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
Myocardial stunning and hibernation are both clinically important causes of myocardial dysfunction and are caused by episodes of… 
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
A comparison of the effects of fentanyl and propofol on left ventricular contractility during myocardial stunning
Background: The intravenous anaesthetic propofol has been shown to possess free radical scavenging activity and calcium channel… 
1998
1998
Intracellular calcium dynamics in mouse model of myocardial stunning.
Intracellular calcium ([Formula: see text]) and left ventricular (LV) function were determined in the coronary-perfused mouse… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Preconditioning Improves Energy Metabolism During Reperfusion but Does Not Attenuate Myocardial Stunning in Porcine Hearts
BackgroundIt has been reported that a brief period of coronary occlusion and reperfusion slows the rate of ATP depletion during… 
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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