Myocardial hibernation denotes a protective state of the myocardium, which manifests in response to chronic ischemia and hypoxia encountered during coronary chronic total occlusion. This functionally ...

As an adjunct to bypass surgery for ischemic cardiomyopathy, a cardiac shockwave therapy aimed at regenerating ischemic myocardium boosted left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and physical ...

241659 Introduction: To explore the association between the quantity of hibernating myocardium (HM) and the grading of collateral circulation in patients with chronic total occlusion (CTO) of the ...

In fact, if a substantial amount of hibernating myocardium is present, coronary revascularisation may substantially improve regional and global contractile function in selected patients with ischaemic ...

Sunil Rao, MD (NYU Langone Medical Center, New York), agreed that the analysis challenges current concepts and definitions of hibernating myocardium. “The whole idea behind hibernating myocardium is ...

Unlike myocardial viability at baseline, the metric of scar burden, assessed in a subgroup of 478 individuals, did predict fewer deaths and heart failure hospitalizations (HR 1.18, 95% CI 1.04-1.33) ...

So the analysis "seems to call into question what the definitions of viability and hibernating myocardium really are. In a way, it throws a monkey wrench into our entire thinking on it," he said.

So maybe we cannot hibernate all winter long, but we can give ourselves permission to crawl in bed earlier and hit the snooze button with impunity. We can also make more time to sleep during the day.

This is a good method when myocardial viability is also in question (from hibernating myocardium). Special Situations Aortic valve stenosis , when severe, is considered a relative contraindication ...

The concepts of stunned and hibernating myocardium were described and received considerable attention in the 1980s. These phenomena, related to myocardial ischemia (), occur far more frequently than ...