Scar Formation with Decreased Cardiac Function Following Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in 1 Month Old Swine
An interesting article evaluating the scar formation and cardiac function in pig heart after ischemia/reperfusion (IR) injury. Researchers used CHPs in this study to evaluate the damage immediately following IR and even compared this with Masson's Trichrome staining. They found that immediately after IR, the heart does see a decrease in cardiac function in terms of ejection fraction and fractional shortening but that these conditions did not worsen afte...