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Ann Thorac Surg 1997;63:26-27
© 1997 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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DR RALPH J. DAMIANO (Hershey, PA):

Doctor Murphy, I congratulate you on a beautiful presentation of very interesting data. I have several questions and would like your opinion on the clinical relevance of your findings.

First, have you looked at the time course of recovery? From a clinical standpoint, this would be very important. Is this a prolonged impairment of vasoreactivity or is this something that 6 or 12 hours later has resolved completely?

My second question is: Have you looked further at more clinically significant physiologic correlates of your findings? Have you found in any other models a real difference in postreperfusion blood flow that may correlate with some of the isolated vessel findings?

You concluded by speculating that by altering the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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