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Myocardial Reperfusion Injury

"Myocardial 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.

Damage to the MYOCARDIUM resulting from MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION (restoration of blood flow to ischemic areas of the HEART.) Reperfusion takes place when there is spontaneous thrombolysis, THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY, collateral flow from other coronary vascular beds, or reversal of vasospasm.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Myocardial Reperfusion Injury" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Myocardial Reperfusion Injury" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 285 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 19 publications in 2004 and 2011
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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.