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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on November 30, 2004
European Heart Journal 2005 26(1):99; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi029
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Letter to the Editor

What is ‘reperfusion injury’?

Petr Ostadal

Department of Cardiology
2nd Faculty of Medicine
Charles University
University Hospital Motol
V Uvalu 84
150 18 - Prague 5
Czech Republic
E-mail address: ostadal@yahoo.com

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I read with great interest the article by Turschner et al.1 describing the echocardiographic observation of experimentally induced myocardial infarction and subsequent reperfusion in the pig model. They have demonstrated an increase in regional wall thickness in the reperfused infarct zone due to ‘oedema associated with reperfusion injury’.

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