Adaptation to hypoxia and ischemic preconditioning: pathophysiologic and clinical aspects of cardioprotection in patients with coronary disease

Abstract

Research of cardioprotection and endogenous methods of nonspecific myocardial protection - adaptation to hypoxia and ischemic preconditioning grows rapidly nowadays. In cardiovascular patients the use of cell mechanisms based on adaptation to hypoxia, and the phenomenon of ischemic preconditioning is a perspective and promising approach to solve the problem of myocardium protection in ischemic injury. In consequence of basic and clinical research in intracellular functional and methabolic mechanisms of adaptation to hypoxia and ischemia there is a real opportunity of widespread use of data on the mechanisms of adaptation syndrome formation in clinical practice, as well as to develop new research-based effective health technologies in medical rehabilitation programs in cardiovascular patients.

Keywords

• adaptation
• hypoxia
• ischemic preconditioning
• cardiovascular disease