The Effect of Supplemental Cardioplegia Infusion before Anastomosis in Patients Undergoing Heart Transplantation with Long Ischemic Times.

Conclusion: The additional infusion of a cardioplegia solution immediately before implantation in patients with longer ischemic times is a simple, reproducible, and safe procedure. However, we did not observe benefits of this strategy in the present study. PMID: 33046664 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Korean Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery - Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Tags: Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Source Type: research