Surgical Reperfusion of Acute Myocardial Ischemia: A Clinical Review

The stunned myocardium: prolonged, postischemic ventricular dysfunction.

1982 • 2,825 citations

Prevalence of Total Coronary Occlusion during the Early Hours of Transmural Myocardial Infarction

1980 • 2,722 citations

The wavefront phenomenon of ischemic cell death. 1. Myocardial infarct size vs duration of coronary occlusion in dogs.

1977 • 1,927 citations

Effects of aging on changing arterial compliance and left ventricular load in a northern Chinese urban community.

1983 • 964 citations

Western Washington Randomized Trial of Intracoronary Streptokinase in Acute Myocardial Infarction

1983 • 805 citations

Myocardial Changes Associated with Cardiogenic Shock

1971 • 675 citations

Prognosis after initial myocardial infarction: The Framingham study

1979 • 580 citations

Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty: report of complications from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute PTCA Registry.

1983 • 579 citations

A Platelet-Inhibitor-Drug Trial in Coronary-Artery Bypass Operations

1982 • 550 citations

A Randomized Trial of Intracoronary Streptokinase in the Treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction

1983 • 536 citations

Preinfarctional (Unstable) Angina—A Prospective Study— Ten Year Follow-Up

1973 • 395 citations

Coronary Artery Reperfusion

1972 • 375 citations

Intravenous short-term infusion of streptokinase in acute myocardial infarction.

1983 • 368 citations

Unstable angina pectoris: National cooperative study group to compare surgical and medical therapy

1978 • 329 citations

Time course of functional and biochemical recovery of myocardium salvaged by reperfusion

1983 • 325 citations

Complement activation and neutropenia occurring during cardiopulmonary bypass

1981 • 324 citations

Multivariate discriminant analysis of the clinical and angiographic predictors of operative mortality from the Collaborative Study in Coronary Artery Surgery (CASS)

1980 • 310 citations

Effects of Intracoronary Streptokinase and Intracoronary Nitroglycerin Infusion on Coronary Angiographic Patterns and Mortality in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction

1984 • 288 citations

Unstable Angina and Progression of Coronary Atherosclerosis

1983 • 253 citations

Loss of the improvement of angina between 1 and 7 years after aortocoronary bypass surgery: correlations with changes in vein grafts and in coronary arteries.

1979 • 247 citations

Shock after acute myocardial infarction

1970 • 234 citations

Intravenous streptokinase in evolving acute myocardial infarction

1984 • 230 citations

Salvage of myocardial function by coronary artery reperfusion 1, 2, and 3 hours after occlusion in conscious dogs.

1983 • 212 citations

Response of reperfusion-salvaged, stunned myocardium to inotropic stimulation

1984 • 210 citations

Inhibition of surgically induced ischemia/reperfusion injury by oxygen free radical scavengers

1983 • 207 citations

Revascularization after 3 hours of coronary arterial occlusion: Effects on regional cardiac metabolic function and infarct size

1975 • 198 citations

Effects of Intraaortic Balloon Counterpulsation on the Severity of Myocardial Ischemic Injury following Acute Coronary Occlusion

1972 • 191 citations

Return of left ventricular function after reperfusion in patients with myocardial infarction: importance of subtotal stenoses or intact collaterals.

1984 • 188 citations

Prospective randomized trial of intravenous and intracoronary streptokinase in acute myocardial infarction.

1983 • 182 citations

Factors presaging early recurrent myocardial infarction (“Extension”)

1981 • 182 citations

Benefits of normothermic induction of blood cardioplegia in energy-depleted hearts, with maintenance of arrest by multidose cold blood cardioplegic infusions

1982 • 178 citations

The clinical course, early prognosis and coronary anatomy of subendocardial infarction

1976 • 170 citations

Favorable Effects of Hyaluronidase on Electrocardiographic Evidence of Necrosis in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction

1977 • 169 citations

Time from onset of symptoms to thrombolytic therapy: A major determinant of myocardial salvage in patients with acute transmural infarction

1985 • 167 citations

Preferential uptake of lactate by the normal myocardium in dogs

1980 • 167 citations

Warm induction of cardioplegia with glutamate-enriched blood in coronary patients with cardiogenic shock who are dependent on inotropic drugs and intra-aortic balloon support

1983 • 163 citations

The effect of intraaortic balloon counterpulsation on regional myocardial blood flow and oxygen consumption in the presence of coronary artery stenosis in patients with unstable angina.

1982 • 158 citations

The next 30 years--will the progress continue?

1980 • 156 citations

Augmentation of regional coronary blood flow by intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation in patients with unstable angina.

1983 • 156 citations

A clinical trial of blood and crystalloid cardioplegia

1984 • 156 citations

Myocardial-Infarct Extension Detected by Precordial ST-Segment Mapping

1974 • 155 citations

Sustained improvement in left ventricular function and mortality by intracoronary streptokinase administration during evolving myocardial infarction.

1983 • 154 citations

Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty: Application for acute myocardial infarction

1984 • 153 citations

Medical and surgical management of myocardial infarction

1979 • 149 citations

Emergency coronary artery revascularization: a possible therapy for acute myocardial infarction.

1979 • 148 citations

The oxygen free radical system: Potential mediator of myocardial injury

1985 • 146 citations

Medical versus Surgical Therapy for Acute Coronary Insufficiency

1975 • 136 citations

Mortality in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery after myocardial infarction

1974 • 135 citations

Myocardial metabolism and ventricular function following cold potassium cardioplegia

1985 • 127 citations

Changes in left ventricular function after intracoronary streptokinase infusion in clinically evolving myocardial infarction

1981 • 125 citations

Unstable angina: Natural history and determinants of prognosis

1981 • 120 citations

Determinants of myocardial hemorrhage after coronary reperfusion in the anesthetized dog.

1982 • 104 citations

Ten-Year Survival after Coronary Bypass Surgery for Unstable Angina

1983 • 103 citations

Acute myocardial infarction

1975 • 100 citations

Effect of reperfusion on myocardial infarct, and the accuracy of estimating infarct size from serum creatine phosphokinase in the dog

1976 • 96 citations

Immediate coronary artery bypass for acute evolving myocardial infarction

1981 • 91 citations

Surgical revascularization following unsuccessful percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty

1982 • 91 citations

Ribose-enhanced myocardial recovery following ischemia in the isolated working rat heart

1982 • 88 citations

Discriminant analysis of the changing risks of coronary artery operations: 1971-1979.

1983 • 88 citations

Conduction and Block in the Right Bundle Branch

1972 • 85 citations

Clinical experience with glucose-insulin-potassium therapy in acute myocardial infarction

1981 • 84 citations

The aggressive treatment of acute myocardial infarction.

1985 • 84 citations

Discriminant analysis of the changing risks of coronary artery operations: 1971–1979

1983 • 79 citations

Combined intracoronary streptokinase infusion and coronary angioplasty during acute myocardial infarction

1984 • 79 citations

Results in 339 patients

1983 • 79 citations

Emergency Aortocoronary Bypass for Impending or Extending Myocardial Infarction

1971 • 78 citations

Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in acute myocardial infarction

1984 • 77 citations

Unstable angina pectoris

1976 • 76 citations

Unstable angina pectoris: A randomized study of patients treated medically and surgically

1978 • 75 citations

Myocardial revascularization after acute infarction

1975 • 75 citations

Extension of myocardial infarction: incidence and prognosis.

1979 • 67 citations

Determinants of operative mortality and long-term survival in patients with unstable angina. The CASS experience.

1985 • 65 citations

Reduction of Extent of Myocardial Infarction by Counterpulsation

1969 • 64 citations

Safe early revascularization for continuing ischemia after acute myocardial infarction.

1979 • 63 citations

Reperfusion Protocol and Results in 738 Patients with Evolving Myocardial Infarction

1986 • 62 citations

Coronary Bypass for Relief of Persistent Pain Following Acute Myocardial Infarction

1981 • 60 citations

Evolving Indications for Preoperative Intraaortic Balloon Pump Assistance

1976 • 59 citations

Medical versus surgical treatment of unstable angina

1976 • 57 citations

Timing of coronary revascularization after acute myocardial infarction. Early and late results in patients revascularized within seven weeks.

1984 • 57 citations

Coronary bypass operation following acute complicated myocardial infarction

1983 • 55 citations

Determinants of operative mortality and long-term survival in patients with unstable angina

1985 • 54 citations

Nifedipine Cardioplegia Experience: Results of a 3-Year Cooperative Clinical Study

1983 • 53 citations

Medically refractory unstable angina pectoris. I. Long-term follow-up of patients undergoing intraaortic balloon counterpulsation and operation

1979 • 53 citations

Surgical Intervention for the Complications of Acute Myocardial Ischemia

1973 • 50 citations

Timing of coronary revascularization after acute myocardial infarction

1984 • 50 citations

Myocardial revascularization after failure of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty

1985 • 49 citations

Transient ST-segment elevation with postmyocardial infarction angina: prognostic significance

1975 • 49 citations

New Developments in Medical-Surgical Treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction

1983 • 46 citations

The spectrum of unstable angina: Prognostic role of serum creatine kinase determination

1982 • 45 citations

Emergency revascularization for unstable angina.

1978 • 44 citations

Thrombolysis in acute myocardial infarction: effect of intravenous followed by intracoronary streptokinase application on estimates of infarct size

1984 • 44 citations

Postinfarction angina: results of early revascularization

1983 • 42 citations

Immediate coronary bypass following failed streptokinase infusion in evolving myocardial infarction

1984 • 40 citations

Treatment of post—myocardial infarction angina by intra-aortic balloon pumping and emergency revascularization

1977 • 40 citations

Postinfarction angina: An expanding subset of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass

1985 • 38 citations

Emergency coronary artery revascularization of patients with acute myocardial infarction: you can ... but should you?

1979 • 37 citations

Surgical approach for patients with unstable angina pectoris: Role of the response to initial medical therapy and intraaortic balloon pumping in perioperative complications after aortocoronary bypass grafting

1978 • 36 citations

Abnormal technetium-99m pyrophosphate images in unstable angina: Ischemia versus infarction?

1979 • 34 citations

Mechanism of defective oxygen extraction following global ischemia

1981 • 31 citations

Prospective study of medical and urgent surgical therapy in randomizable patients with unstable angina pectoris: Results of in-hospital and chronic mortality and morbidity

1981 • 30 citations

Unstable Angina Pectoris Factors Influencing Operative Risk

1980 • 28 citations

Management of evolving myocardial infarction by intracoronary thrombolysis and subsequent aorta-coronary bypass

1982 • 28 citations

Hemorrhagic infarction and coronary reperfusion

1981 • 25 citations

Reduced oxygen extraction during reperfusion: A consequence of global ischemic arrest

1980 • 24 citations

Coronary circulatory dynamics before and after successful coronary angioplasty

1983 • 23 citations

Surgery for Evolving Myocardial Infarction

1982 • 22 citations

The Efficacy of Medical Stabilization Prior to Myocardial Revascularization in Early Refractory Postinfarction Angina

1983 • 22 citations

Increasing operability and survival with intra-aortic ballon pump assist.

1976 • 22 citations

Operative Intervention for Postinfarction Angina

1984 • 22 citations

Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Following Thrombolytic Therapy for Acute Coronary Thrombosis

1984 • 21 citations

Determinants of Cardiac Failure after Coronary Bypass Surgery within 30 Days of Acute Myocardial Infarction

1986 • 20 citations

Newer concepts in the pathophysiology of ischemic heart disease

1982 • 20 citations

Sequential intracoronary streptokinase and transluminal angioplasty in unstable angina with evolving myocardial infarction

1982 • 19 citations

Pharmacologic modification of myocardial ischemia.

1982 • 18 citations

Emergency Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery for Threatened Acute Myocardial Infarction Related to Coronary Artery Catheterization

1985 • 18 citations

Cardiopulmonary bypass during reperfusion after coronary occlusion attenuates the “no reflow” phenomenon in ischemic myocardium

1983 • 17 citations

Mediation of cardiac ischemia by thromboxanes released from human platelets.

1982 • 16 citations

Changing Indications for the Surgical Treatment of Unstable Angina

1978 • 16 citations

Early bypass grafting following intracoronary thrombolysis with streptokinase

1984 • 16 citations

Shock in Acute Myocardial Infarction

1964 • 15 citations

Determinants of risk for coronary artery bypass grafting in stable and unstable angina pectoris.

1985 • 14 citations

Myocardial surgical revascularization after streptokinase treatment for acute myocardial infarction

1985 • 14 citations

Intracoronary thallium 201 scintigraphy as an immediate predictor of salvaged myocardium following intracoronary lysis

1984 • 14 citations

Effect of Dipyridamole on Ischemia-Induced Changes in Cardiac Performance and Metabolism

1980 • 13 citations

Early operative intervention after thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction

1985 • 13 citations

Long term course of subendocardial myocardial infarction compared to that of anterior and inferior transmural infarction. A controlled study

1978 • 12 citations

Effect of coronary artery reperfusion on infarct size in swine

1981 • 10 citations

The Surgeon’s Role in the Treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction

1985 • 10 citations

Delayed semielective coronary bypass surgery for unstable angina pectoris

1978 • 9 citations

Coronary Sinus Retroperfusion and Pressure-Controlled Intermittent Coronary Sinus Occlusion (PICSO) for Myocardial Protection

1985 • 9 citations

Surgery for evolving myocardial infarction

1982 • 5 citations

Unstable Angina Recognition and Management

1982 • 5 citations

Surgical reperfusion of acute myocardial infarction.

1985 • 4 citations

Inotropic Response of the Salvaged Myocardium after Acute Coronary Occlusion

1986 • 3 citations

Coronary artery bypass grafting for unstable angina. Risk factors of operative mortality.

1984 • 3 citations

Should coronary artery bypass be delayed following successful direct coronary artery streptokinase thrombolysis during evolving myocardial infarction?

1986 • 3 citations

Should coronary artery bypass be delayed following successful direct coronary artery streptokinase thrombolysis during evolving myocardial infarction?

1986 • 2 citations

Early operative intervention after thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction

1985 • 2 citations