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Ann Thorac Surg 1996;61:1657
© 1996 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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DR WILLIAM A. GAY, JR (St. Louis, MO): That was a very interesting study, and I had just one question. Some of your slides suggested that there was an additive effect when you added l-arginine to the reperfusate. This would then suggest that there is a systemic deficit of l-arginine in the preparation. How do you explain the additive effect of l-arginine in the reperfusate?

DR CARRIER: We do not know yet how we can explain that, but effectively in some of the slides, the difference between the two groups that received l-arginine was shown just by the end of the period of reperfusion. I am not sure exactly how to explain both, but in most of the experiments that use segmental ischemia, the investigator used to inject l-arginine during reperfusion to show that there is a difference. I do . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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