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Reperfusion Injury

"Reperfusion Injury" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Adverse functional, metabolic, or structural changes in ischemic tissues resulting from the restoration of blood flow to the tissue (REPERFUSION), including swelling; HEMORRHAGE; NECROSIS; and damage from FREE RADICALS. The most common instance is MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION INJURY.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Reperfusion Injury" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Reperfusion Injury" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 671 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 40 publications in 2012
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.