Cardiopulmonary Protective Effects of Modified Remote Ischaemic Preconditioning in Mitral Valve Replacement Surgery

Overview

During cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass , injury occurs to the heart muscle and the lung.The heart and lung injury is a serious complication ,which increases both mortality and morbidity of cardiac surgery .Remote ischemic preconditioning(RIPC) with transient upper limb ischemia/reperfusion is a novel, simple, cost-free,non-pharmacological and non-invasive strategy.Recent some trials suggested that RIPC could provide myocardial protection by reducing serum cardiac biomarkers,however, more recent multicenter studies\[9-11\] had failed to show the protective effects of RIPC with respect to the troponin release and lung injury. Remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) is reported to have the early-phase and delayed-phase organ protective effects, whether the modified RIPC protocol induced repeatedly has the cardiopulmonary protective effect is still uncertain.

modified RIPC was induced at 24 h, 12 h and 1 h before surgery to reinforce the protective effects of RIPC.The single RIPC protocol was induced by three cycles of upper-limb ischemia, a standard blood-pressure cuff was placed on the ringt upper arm, then inflated the cuff to 200 mm Hg for 5 minutes, followed by 5 min of cuff deflation.

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