Epicardial temperature is a major predictor of myocardial infarct size in dogs.

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To determine whether epicardial temperature varies among anesthetised, open-chest dogs, and, if so, whether such variation has a measurable effect on myocardial infarct size, 35 open-chest mongrel dogs underwent 60 min of circumflex coronary artery occlusion and 3 h of reperfusion. Infarct size was measured using triphenyl tetrazolium chloride (TTC) macrochemistry. Known predictors of infarct size including...

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