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Ann Thorac Surg 1996;62:61-62
© 1996 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Discussion

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DR DAVID A. FULLERTON (Denver, CO): Doctor Mauney, I compliment you on a beautiful presentation. I think that you and your colleagues at the University of Virginia continue to lead the way in trying to fine-tune the mechanisms of organ procurement and organ protection, and we are all waiting for this to become an elective operation. So I compliment you in that regard.

I was wondering if I could get you to speculate on a couple of things. You have a very elegant setup, and so I suspect that you may have thought about or even initiated the experiments to do a couple of things. I must admit that I found the function of your cardiac groups to be significantly better than I would have anticipated; you clearly have a technique here to study some of the mechanisms of myocardial preconditioning. Have you had an opportunity to try to make these hypoxic and reperfused groups function even more closely to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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