Myocardial Protection With Adenosine Preconditioning

Summary

Adenosine has been proved to be an important mediator of myocardial protection induced by ischemic preconditioning. The hypothesis of this study is that adenosine preconditioning can provide additional myocardial protection in the setting of pediatric open heart surgery with cardioplegia and cardiopulmonary bypass.

Timeline

Start

2008-06

Primary completion

2008-12

Completion

2008-12

Drugs

Indications