A systematic review and meta-analysis of the cardioprotective effects of remote ischaemic preconditioning in open cardiac surgery

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Association of Myocardial Enzyme Elevation and Survival Following Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

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Remote ischemic preconditioning reduces myocardial injury after coronary artery bypass surgery with crystalloid cardioplegic arrest

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Remote Ischemic Preconditioning in Human Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: From Promise to Disappointment?

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Remote Perconditioning Reduces Myocardial Injury in Adult Valve Replacement: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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Myocardial injury is decreased by late remote ischaemic preconditioning and aggravated by tramadol in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: a randomised controlled trial☆

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Cardiac Remote Ischemic Preconditioning in Coronary Stenting (CRISP Stent) Study

(2009) Stephen P. Hoole et al.   CIRCULATION

Remote ischaemic preconditioning: the current best hope for improved myocardial protection in cardiac surgery?

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Remote ischaemic preconditioning reduces myocardial injury in patients undergoing cardiac surgery with cold-blood cardioplegia: a randomised controlled trial

(2009) V Venugopal et al.   HEART

Limb Ischemic Preconditioning Reduces Heart and Lung Injury After an Open Heart Operation in Infants

(2009) Zhou Wenwu et al.   PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY

The impairment of preconditioning-mediated cardioprotection in pathological conditions

(2009) Pitchai Balakumar et al.   PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Troponin after Cardiac Surgery: A Predictor or a Phenomenon?

(2008) Nahum Nesher et al.   ANNALS OF THORACIC SURGERY

Remote ischaemic preconditioning: underlying mechanisms and clinical application

(2008) D. J. Hausenloy et al.   CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH

Remote Ischemic Preconditioning: A Novel Protective Method From Ischemia Reperfusion Injury—A Review

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