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Current Perspective

Ischemic Preconditioning in Humans

Models, Mediators, and Clinical Relevance

Fabrizio Tomai, MD; Filippo Crea, MD; Luigi Chiariello, MD; Pier A. Gioffrè, MD

From the Divisione di Cardiochirurgia, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, European Hospital and Istituto di Cardiologia (F.C.), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.

Correspondence to Dr Fabrizio Tomai, Divisione di Cardiochirurgia, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, European Hospital, via Portuense 700, 00149 Rome, Italy.

Abstract—Ischemic preconditioning, a powerful form of endogenous protection against myocardial infarction, has been demonstrated in several animal species and, recently, in isolated human cardiomyocytes. For both logistic and ethical reasons, no clinical study can meet the strict conditions of experimental studies on preconditioning with infarct size as the end-point. Nevertheless, the demonstration of adaptation to ischemia observed during in vitro studies on human atrial trabeculae, in patients in the setting of coronary bypass surgery, and in the setting of coronary angioplasty in the absence of collateral vessel recruitment strongly suggests that ischemic preconditioning occurs in humans. This notion is further supported by the observation that in these human models, the adaptation to ischemia is influenced by drugs acting on KATP channels and on purinergic and {alpha}-adrenergic receptors, similar to what is observed in accepted experimental models of ischemic preconditioning. This important form of myocardial endogenous protection may also play a role in the warm-up phenomenon and in mediating the beneficial effects of preinfarction angina. The demonstration of ischemic preconditioning in humans and the identification of some of its mediators suggests that in patients at high risk for myocardial infarction, drugs known to block this endogenous form of protection should be used with caution, whereas drugs known to elicit preconditioning might have a relevant therapeutic role.


Key Words: angina • ischemia • myocardial infarction




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