Toshihiro Fukui, MD, Susumu Manabe, MD, Tomoki Shimokawa, MD, and
Shuichiro Takanashi, MD

Stefan Christiansen, MD, and Rüdiger Autschbach, MD

Yoshinori Watanabe, MD, PhD, Takeshiro Fujii, MD, PhD, Masanori Hara, MD,
Yuki Sasaki, MD, Tomoyuki Katayanagi, MD, Noritsugu Shiono, MD, PhD,
and Nobuya Koyama, MD, PhD

Hitoshi Yaku, MD, PhD, and Kiyoshi Doi, MD, PhD

Evaluation of the Effects of Ischemic Preconditioning
with a Short Reperfusion Phase on Patients
Undergoing a Coronary Artery Bypass Graft

Hiroyuki Nishi, MD,1 Masataka Mitsuno, MD,1 Mitsuhiro Yamamura, MD,1
Hiroe Tanaka, MD,1 Masaaki Ryomoto, MD,1 Shinya Fukui, MD,1 Yoshiteru Yoshioka, MD,1
Shunichiro Takanashi, MD,2 and Yuji Miyamoto, MD1

Tomas Jernberg, MD, PhD
Per Johanson, MD, PhD
Claes Held, MD, PhD
Bodil Svennblad, MsC
Johan Lindba¨ck, MsC
Lars Wallentin, MD, PhD
for SWEDEHEART/RIKS-HIA.

R. Speich

Madhav Swaminathan, MD, Alina Nicoara, MD, Barbara G. Phillips-Bute, PhD,
Nicolas Aeschlimann, MD, Carmelo A. Milano, MD, G. Burkhard Mackensen, MD, PhD,
Mihai V. Podgoreanu, MD, Eric J. Velazquez, MD, Mark Stafford-Smith, MD,
Joseph P. Mathew, MD, and the Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Research Endeavors
(CARE) Group*

Craig D. Ainsworth, MD, FRCPC; Omid Salehian, MSc, MD, FRCPC, FACC, FAHA