On July 2–3, 1996, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute sponsored a workshop in
Columbia, Md, entitled “The Medical and Cellular Implications of Myocardial Stunning …

The current status of stunning, hibernation, and preconditioning ta meeting held in Hanbury
Manor at the end of 1992, an international group of clinical cardiolo-A gists, cardiothoracic …

Issue entitled ''Cardiac Protection by Pre-and Postconditioning''in May of this year. This
editorial is thought to serve as an introduction to the upcoming issue. One of the major …

Myocardium which has been subjected to one or several brief period (s) of ischemia, of
insufficient duration to cause myocyte necrosis, rapidly (within minutes) develops markedly …

Despite considerable advances, coronary artery disease is the leading cause of morbidity
and mortality in the Western world. The development of effective therapeutic strategies for …

Analyses of regional myocardial blood flow, function, metabolism, and morphology in
ischemic and reperfused myocardium has led to the identification of important phenomena …

The term “hibernation”—a paradigm borrowed from zoology—implies a regulatory reduction
of energy expenditure in adaptation to reduced energy supply, thereby allowing survival. In …

Since the mid-seventies, numerous articles on stunned and hibernating myocardium have
appeared in the medical literature. Since 1986, investigators of the ischemic myocardium …

Myocardial hibernation, as first defined by Rahimtoola, is a state of chronic contractile
dysfunction in patients with coronary artery disease which is fully reversible upon …