Clinical and ultramicroscopic myocardial randomized study of beating versus arrested heart for mitral surgery

INTRODUCTION: Beating heart surgery on normothermic bypass simulates physiologic cardiac status. OBJECTIVES: This study compared clinical and transmission electron microscopic aspects of myocardial protection during mitral valve replacement using warm retrograde perfusion in empty beating versus arr...

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Main Authors: Clotario Neptali Carrasco Cueva, Maiara dos Santos Rocha, Carlos Maurício Cardeal Mendes, Luiz Antonio Rodrigues de Freitas, José Augusto Baucia, Roberto Badaró
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia Cardiovascular 2013-06-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-76382013000200017&lng=en&tlng=en