Molecular mechanisms initiated within cyanotic and acyanotic infant myocardium during cardio-pulmonary bypass in vivo and ischemic-reperfusion injury in vitro
Children with the congenital heart defect TOF require surgical repair. Their myocardium is exposed to chronic hypoxia due to insufficiently oxygenated blood shunted from the right to the left side of the heart through the VSD, resulting in cyanosis. Such corrective surgery often requires the use of...
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University of Glasgow
2013
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.570015 |