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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1979-9-1
pubmed:abstractText
A new method of myocardial protection, profound selective myocardial hypothermia has been employed in order to avoid the effects of cardiac ischaemia during aortic cross clamping in the course of operations undertaken under extracorporeal circulation. It consists of the irrigation of the aortic root immediately after cross clamping with 4 liters of Ringer Lactate at 4 degrees C which perfuses the entire coronary bed and induces complete uniform profound coling of the intrapericardial mass to a temperature of approximately 10 degrees C with resultant flat electrocardiogram and cessation of all electrical activity of the myocardium. This inactivity remains complete until the aorta is unclamped permitting reoxygenation and rewarming of the heart with resumption of its function. This method has been used in the course of 250 cardiac procedures involving the use of extracorporal circulation including 177 valve replacements, either aortic or mitral and aortic, 54 saphenous vein bypass procedures, either simple or with valve replacement and 19 other assorted procedures including cardiac transplantation and complex congenital malformations. Thermal, electrocardiographic, hemodynamic, histologic, histochemical and enzymatic observations have proven the minimal significance of the ischemic lesions produced in hearts protected in this manner. The total mortality was 6.4% which proves the value of this method and its superiority over the 2 techniques most often used at the present time, coronary perfusion or topical myocardial hypothermia according to Shumway's method.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0021-9509
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
20
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
227-32
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-11
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:376537-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:376537-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:376537-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:376537-Cardiac Surgical Procedures, pubmed-meshheading:376537-Child, pubmed-meshheading:376537-Child, Preschool, pubmed-meshheading:376537-Coronary Artery Bypass, pubmed-meshheading:376537-Coronary Disease, pubmed-meshheading:376537-Electrocardiography, pubmed-meshheading:376537-Extracorporeal Circulation, pubmed-meshheading:376537-Female, pubmed-meshheading:376537-Heart Defects, Congenital, pubmed-meshheading:376537-Heart Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:376537-Heart Valve Diseases, pubmed-meshheading:376537-Heart Valve Prosthesis, pubmed-meshheading:376537-Hemodynamics, pubmed-meshheading:376537-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:376537-Hypothermia, Induced, pubmed-meshheading:376537-Infant, pubmed-meshheading:376537-Infant, Newborn, pubmed-meshheading:376537-Male, pubmed-meshheading:376537-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:376537-Myocardium, pubmed-meshheading:376537-Postoperative Complications, pubmed-meshheading:376537-Transplantation, Homologous
pubmed:articleTitle
The prevention of myocardial ischaemia by the method of profound selective myocardial hypothermia during open heart surgery.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article