Use of Different Cardioplegia Solutions in Heart Valve Surgery.
2024
Mesut Engin, and
Bişar Amaç, and
Mustafa Abanoz
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Health Sciences, Bursa Yuksek Ihtisas Training and Research Hospital, Yıldırım, Bursa, Turkey. E-mail: mesut_kvc_cor@hotmail.com.
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Cardioplegic Solutions
Solutions which, upon administration, will temporarily arrest cardiac activity. They are used in the performance of heart surgery.
A procedure to stop the contraction of MYOCARDIUM during HEART SURGERY. It is usually achieved with the use of chemicals (CARDIOPLEGIC SOLUTIONS) or cold temperature (such as chilled perfusate).
Flaps of tissue that prevent regurgitation of BLOOD from the HEART VENTRICLES to the HEART ATRIA or from the PULMONARY ARTERIES or AORTA to the ventricles.