Slovenská chirurgia 1/2014
The use of the ischemic tolerance phenomenon in clinical practice
Breakdown of organs blood flow is till now one of most important issues of modern medicine, but it has also big economic and social impact. Except well-known civilisation disease, ischemic injury occurs also during injuries and elective surgical procedures. Usage of relatively new phenomena of „ischemic tolerance“ is surprisingly efficient, easy and cheap method, which is able to ameliorate extent of ischemic reperfusion injury.
Keywords: ischemia, reperfusion, skeletal muscle, ischemic tolerance, predonditioning, postconditioning, remote ischemic postconditioning.
