Regional ischemic 'preconditioning' protects remote virgin myocardium from subsequent sustained coronary occlusion.

BACKGROUND: One or more brief episodes of coronary artery occlusion protect or "precondition" the myocardium perfused by that artery from a subsequent episode of sustained ischemia. We sought to determine whether ischemic preconditioning protects only those myocytes subjected to brief coronary occlu... View More