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Ann Thorac Surg 1995;59:802-803
© 1995 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Invited Commentary

INVITED COMMENTARY

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery Hopital Lariboisiere 2, rue Ambroise Pare 75010 Paris, France

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See also page 795.

This article demonstrates, with the use of sophisticated hemodynamic end points, that warm continuous retrograde blood cardioplegia provides poor protection, compared with the more conventional cold antegrade technique, in a canine model of cardioplegic arrest superimposed on a previous episode of normothermic unprotected global ischemia. Van Camp and associates logically conclude that their data ``dictate cautious use of warm retrograde cardioplegia in the setting of acute ischemia.'' I think that the interpretation of this conclusion should be equally cautious because two major features of the experimental design seriously limit the clinical relevance of this study.

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