Myocardial infarction resulting from coronary atherosclerosis is the leading cause of death in modern soci- ety. Reperfusion is an essential treatment to salvage ischemia myocardium from necrosis, while it also leads ...
This work was supported by the grant Irom the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81070098) and Foundation for Postgraduates' Innovative Research of Peking Union Medical College (No. 2010-1002-004).
Background It has been proved that sevoflurane postconditioning (SpostC) could protect the heart against myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury, however, there has been few research focused on the electrophysiologic...