A Randomized Double-blind Placebo-controlled Clinical Study Investigating Clinical Outcome and Gene Expression Responses to Insulin-enhanced Cardioplegia during Cardiac Surgery in Infants with Tetralogy of Fallot
Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) is the most common cyanotic congenital heart defect and infants with TOF incur significant right ventricular(RV) dysfunction due to perioperative injury. Insulin has been shown to reduce perioperative myocardial injury and significantly improve postoperative cardiac functio...
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Language: | en_ca |
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2008
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1807/11183 |