Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Myocardial protection: is primary PCI enough?

  • Viewpoint
  • Published:

From Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine

View current issue Sign up to alerts

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Yellon DM and Hausenloy DJ (2007) Myocardial reperfusion injury. N Engl J Med 357: 1121–1135

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  2. Zhao ZQ et al. (2003) Inhibition of myocardial injury by ischemic postconditioning during reperfusion: comparison with ischemic preconditioning. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H579–H588

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. Thibault H et al. (2008) Long-term benefit of postconditioning. Circulation 117: 1037–1044

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  4. Piot C et al. (2008) Effect of cyclosporine on reperfusion injury in acute myocardial infarction. N Engl J Med 359: 473–481

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. Hausenloy DJ and Yellon DM (2008) Time to take myocardial reperfusion injury seriously. N Engl J Med 359: 518–520

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  6. Hausenloy DJ and Yellon DM (2007) Reperfusion injury salvage kinase signalling: taking a RISK for cardioprotection. Heart Fail Rev 12: 217–234

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  7. Kitakaze M et al.; J-WIND investigators (2007) Human atrial natriuretic peptide and nicorandil as adjuncts to reperfusion treatment for acute myocardial infarction (J-WIND): two randomised trials. Lancet 370: 1483–1493

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  8. Hausenloy DJ and Yellon DM (2008) Remote ischemic preconditioning: underlying mechanisms and clinical application. Cardiovasc Res 79: 377–386

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. DJ Hausenloy is a Senior Clinical Research Fellow, and DM Yellon is Director of the Hatter Cardiovascular Institute, University College London, London, UK.,

    Derek J Hausenloy & Derek M Yellon

Authors
  1. Derek J Hausenloy
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Derek M Yellon
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Derek M Yellon.

Ethics declarations

Competing interests

The authors declare no competing financial interests.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Hausenloy, D., Yellon, D. Myocardial protection: is primary PCI enough?. Nat Rev Cardiol 6, 12–13 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpcardio1371

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpcardio1371

  • Springer Nature Limited

This article is cited by

Search

Navigation