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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jan 7.
Published in final edited form as: Innovations (Phila). 2006;1(5):232–238. doi: 10.1097/01.imi.0000242160.21278.b7

FIGURE 3.

FIGURE 3

Simultaneous blood draws were obtained from the aorta and coronary sinus at 30 minutes after protamine administration and assayed for myoglobin for patients undergoing OPCAB. This transcardiac gradient of myoglobin showed a strong inverse correlation with the maximal degree of regional pH change that developed during native vessel occlusion (R=-0.96, P < 0.0001).