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epicardial.

epicardial
pertaining to the visceral pericardium (epicardium) or to the epicardia.

epicardial receptors
receptors in the left ventricle adapted to respond to stretch and chemical stimulants.


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Particle pollution may decrease myocardial oxygen supply and increase the risk of cardiac ischemia due to epicardial coronary disease through potentially interrelated mechanisms, including systemic inflammation, oxidative stress, endothelial dysfunction, and/or autonomic dysfunction (Gold et al.
Postoperative cardiac patients are taken directly from theatre to ICU, intubated and sedated with a short acting sedative agent such as propofol, with a Swan Ganz catheter, arterial line, mediastinal drain tubes, indwelling urinary catheter and epicardial pacing wires in situ.
Although the heart contained patchy epicardial lymphoid infiltrates, no evidence of myonecrosis was found.
 
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