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Isoflurane and Myocardial Ischemia

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Isoflurane

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Abstract

A large body of reports of animal experiments demonstrate that isoflurane is a coronary vasodilator which interferes with autoregulation. Its potency appears to be considerably greater than that of halothane or enflurane, but less than that of adenosine (Fig.1) [1–7].

Supported by grants from the Swedish National Foundation Against Heart and Lung Diseases and the Umeå University Research Foundation

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Reiz, S., Lowenstein, E. (1986). Isoflurane and Myocardial Ischemia. In: Lawin, P., Van Aken, H., Puchstein, C. (eds) Isoflurane. Anaesthesiology Intensive Care Medicine/Anaesthesiologie und Intensivmedizin, vol 182. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71230-2_35

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