A steadily increasing number of investigations demonstrate that preconditioning with volatile
anesthetics attenuates the deleterious effects of myocardial ischemia and reperfusion injury …

Preconditioning describes a very powerful endogenous mechanism by which the heart may
be protected against ischemia and reperfusion injury. Transient administration of a volatile …

Purpose of review Pharmacological interventions may play a prominent role in reducing
organ damage in response to physiologic stress. A growing body of evidence indicates that …

TWENTY YEARS AGO, 3 independent research groups reported that exposure to volatile
anesthetics before prolonged coronary artery occlusion and reperfusion protected …

There is an increasing body of evidence that volatile anaesthetics protect myocardium
against ischaemic insult by a mechanism termed 'anaesthetic preconditioning'. Anaesthetic …

Perioperative myocardial ischemia and infarction are not only major sources of morbidity
and mortality in patients undergoing surgery but also important causes of prolonged hospital …

Pharmacological preconditioning with volatile anesthetics, or anesthetic-induced
preconditioning (APC), is a phenomenon whereby a brief exposure to volatile anesthetic …

The myocardium has an innate ability to protect itself from ischemic events. This protection
occurs when the myocardium is exposed to a brief ischemic period prior to a more extreme …

Preconditioning has been shown to reduce myocardial damage caused by ischaemia–
reperfusion injury peri‐operatively. Volatile anaesthetic agents have the potential to provide …

Ischaemic preconditioning, a response to brief sublethal episodes of ischaemia leading to a
pronounced protection against subsequent lethal ischaemia, is mimicked by some …