British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2003, Vol. 91, No. 4 566-576
© 2003 The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia
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Anaesthetics and cardiac preconditioning. Part II. Clinical implications
1 Institute of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. 2 Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. 3 Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Corresponding author: Institute of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital Zurich, Rämistrasse 100, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland. E-mail: michael.zaugg@usz.ch
Abstract
There is compelling evidence that preconditioning occurs in humans. Experimental studies with potential clinical implications as well as clinical studies evaluating ischaemic, pharmacological and anaesthetic cardiac preconditioning in the perioperative setting are reviewed. These studies reveal promising results. However, there are conflicting reports on the efficacy of preconditioning in the diseased and aged myocardium. In addition, many anaesthetics and a significant number of perioperatively administered drugs affect the activity of cardiac sarcolemmal and mitochondrial KATP channels, the end-effectors of cardiac preconditioning, and thereby markedly modulate preconditioning effects in myocardial tissue. Although these modulatory effects on KATP channels have been investigated almost exclusively in laboratory investigations, they may have potential implications in clinical medicine. Important questions regarding the clinical utility and applicability of perioperative cardiac preconditioning remain unresolved and need more experimental work and randomized controlled clinical trials.
Br J Anaesth 2003; 91: 56676
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