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José Luis Guerrero-Orriach1,2,3, Maria Dolores Carmona-Luque4,5,6, Laura Gonzalez-Alvarez1
1Institute of Biomedical Research in Malaga, 29010 Malaga, Spain.
Abstract:
Heart disease requires a surgical approach sometimes. Cardiac-surgery patients develop heart failure associated with ischemia induced during extracorporeal circulation. This complication could be decreased with anesthetic drugs. The cardioprotective effects of halogenated agents are based on pre- and postconditioning (sevoflurane, desflurane, or isoflurane) compared to intravenous hypnotics (propofol). We tried to put light on the shadows walking through the line of the halogenated anesthetic drugs' effects in several enzymatic routes and oxidative stress, waiting for the final results of the ACDHUVV-16 clinical trial regarding the genetic modulation of this kind of drugs.
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