deliberate arrest of the action of the heart, as by hypothermia or the injection of chemicals, to enable complex heart surgery to be carried out
cardioplegia in American English
(ˌkɑːrdiouˈplidʒiə, -dʒə)
noun
the temporary arresting of the heartbeat during cardiac surgery by any of various methods, esp. by injection of chemical substances
Word origin
[cardio- + -plegia]cardio- is a combining form meaning “heart,” used in the formation of compound words. Otherwords that use the affix cardio- include: cardioactive, cardiogenic, cardiolipin, cardiotonic, cardioversion
Examples of 'cardioplegia' in a sentence
cardioplegia
All surgeries were performed using identical techniques besides the cardioplegia volume and number of doses.
David Sladden, Kevin Schembri, Liberato Camilleri, Robert Xuereb, Joseph Galea 2016, 'Improving Myocardial Protection: The Key Variables which Affect Troponin Release afterCABG.', International Cardiovascular Forum Journalhttp://icfjournal.org/index.php/icfj/article/view/349/SLADDEN%2010.17987%3Aicfj.v9i0.349. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Retrograde blood cardioplegia was used for myocardial preservation.
Domingo M Braile, Ênio Buffolo, José Carlos S Andrade, Marco Antônio Volpe, José HonórioPalma, Marcos Zaiantchick 1992, 'Tratamento cirúrgico das lesões da aorta torácica utilizando parada circulatória totalhipotérmica com perfusão cerebral retrógrada Surgical treatment of the pathologiesinvolving thoracic aorta using deep hypothermic total circulatory arrest with retrogradecerebral perfusion', Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgeryhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-76381992000200004. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
All patients were operated under moderate hypothermia with a single infusion of blood cardioplegia.
Bayard GONTIJO FILHO, Fernando A. FANTINI, Harold M. LORA, Cristiane MARTINS, RobertoMax LOPES, Eliane HAYDEN, Mario O. VRANDECIC 2001, 'Reconstrução da artéria pulmonar na operação de Jatene Reconstruction of the pulmonaryartery in Jatene's operation', Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgeryhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-76382001000300008. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
A slight improvement of hemodynamic data was noted when intermittent tepid blood cardioplegia was used.
Gintaras Turkevičius, Stanislovas Stankevič, Arimantas Grebelis, Rasa Čypienė, PalmyraSemėnienė 2007, 'Drungno kraujo kardioplegijos įvertinimas atliekant trijų vožtuvų korekcijos operacijas',Lietuvos Chirurgijahttp://www.journals.vu.lt/lietuvos-chirurgija/article/view/2203. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
All patients were operated on under moderate hypothermia and myocardial protection, with cristalloid cardioplegia.
Bayard Gontijo Filho, Mário O Vrandecic, Mário Morea, Kjell Radegran, João Alfredode Paula e Silva, Fernando Antônio Fantini, Juscelino Teixeira Barbosa 1992, 'Nova bioprótese aórtica sem suporte: resultados clínicos Clinical results with a new"Stentless" aortic bioprosthesis', Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgeryhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-76381992000300008. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The control group received potassium cardioplegia in blood.
Ahmed Shalaby, Timo Rinne, Otso Järvinen, Juha Latva-Hirvelä, Kristiina Nuutila, AnttiSaraste, Jari Laurikka, Helena Porkkala, Pekka Saukko, Matti Tarkka 2009, 'The Impact of Adenosine Fast Induction of Myocardial Arrest during CABG on MyocardialExpression of Apoptosis-Regulating Genes Bax and Bcl-2', Cardiology Research and Practicehttp://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2009/658965. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Both cases were done under cardiopulmonary bypass and cold blood cardioplegia.
Valdester C. PINTO Jr., Waldemiro CARVALHO Jr., Haroldo B. BARROSO, Juan Alberto C.MEJIA, Fernando Antonio de MESQUITA, Claudia R. C. SARDENBERG, Célia M. F. CIRINO,Marilena G. ROCHA, Ricardo F. SARDENBERG, Edna S. RODRIGUES, José Augusto R. ARAÚJO,Antonio Olavo S. MAGALHÃES, João Martins de S. TORRES 1998, 'Anastomose cavo-pulmonar total sem uso de material protético', Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgeryhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-76381998000300009. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Cardiopulmonary bypass and cardioplegia are the most frequently used techniques incardiac surgery.
M.Т. Vatutin, G.G. Taradin, A.О. Taratorina, Ye.V. Yeshchenko, V.S. Kolesnikov 2016, 'Myocardial damage in cardioplegia and cardiopulmonary bypass', Kardìohìrurgìâ ta Intervencìjna Kardìologìâhttp://csic.com.ua/images/pdf/2016/2-2016/myocardial-damage-cardioplegia-cardiopulmonary-bypass.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The operation was performed under normothermic cardiopulmonary bypass and no cardioplegia was used.
Randas J. V Batista, José Luiz Verde dos Santos, Marcos Franzoni, A. C. F Araujo,Noriaki Takeshita, Murilo Furukawa, Lise Bochino, Dalton Precoma, Paulo Neri, LisiasThome, Eduardo Oliveira, Rosane Carvalho, Marco A Cunha 1996, 'Ventriculectomia parcial: um novo conceito no tratamento cirúrgico de cardiopatiasem fase final Partial ventriculectomy: a new concept for surgical treatment of endstage cardiopathies', Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgeryhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-76381996000100002. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Another analysis was performed on the volume of cardioplegia used.
David Sladden, Kevin Schembri, Liberato Camilleri, Robert Xuereb, Joseph Galea 2016, 'Improving Myocardial Protection: The Key Variables which Affect Troponin Release afterCABG.', International Cardiovascular Forum Journalhttp://icfjournal.org/index.php/icfj/article/view/349/SLADDEN%2010.17987%3Aicfj.v9i0.349. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)