Articles: function.
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Review Historical Article
[Long QT syndrome : History, genetics, clinical symptoms, causes and therapy].
The long QT syndrome is caused by a change in cardiac repolarization due to functional ion channel defects. A differentiation is made between a congenital (cLQTS) and an acquired (aLQTS) form of the disease. ⋯ This article summarizes the current knowledge on the history, pathophysiology, clinical symptoms and therapy of cLQTS and aLQTS. This knowledge of pathophysiological features of the symptoms allows the underlying anesthesiological approach for individualized perioperative concepts for patients suffering from LQTS to be derived.
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Journal of anesthesia · Aug 2015
Dietary supplementation with sodium nitrite can exert neuroprotective effects on global cerebral ischemia/reperfusion in mice.
Nitrite-derived NO protects against middle cerebral artery occlusion in mice. We developed a new mouse model of global cerebral ischemia and reperfusion (GCI/R) involving reversible occlusion of the major vessels from the aortic arch supplying the brain, and investigated neuroprotection with dietary sodium nitrite supplementation against GCI/R injury. ⋯ Sodium nitrite supplementation attenuated mortality and neurological impairment after 3-min GCI in mice; an effect likely mediated via vascular mechanisms involving NO.
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Blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been used to study the effects of anesthetic agents on correlated intrinsic neural activity. Previous studies have focused primarily on intravenous agents. The authors studied the effects of sevoflurane, an inhaled anesthetic. ⋯ Sevoflurane-induced unconsciousness is associated with both globally reduced BOLD signal amplitudes and selectively reduced functional connectivity within cortical networks associated with consciousness (default mode network) and orienting to salient external stimuli (ventral attention network). Scrupulous attention to minimizing the impact of head motion artifact is critical in fMRI studies using anesthetic agents.
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Retraction Of Publication
Blood Conservation Techniques and Platelet Function in Cardiac Surgery: Retraction.