The Effect of Remote Ischemic Postconditioning on Quality of Life and Clinical Events after an Ischemic Stroke.

Objectives: Repeated remote ischemic postconditioning (rIPostC) may be an easily applicable treatment following ischemic stroke to improve quality of life (QoL) and clinical outcomes. rIPostC consists of repeated, brief periods of limb ischemia (through inflation of a blood pressure cuff), followed by reperfusion. This study investigated the 1-year follow-up of rIPostC on QoL and clinical events.

Attenuated inflammatory profile following single and repeated handgrip exercise and remote ischemic preconditioning in patients with cerebral small vessel disease.

Similar to remote ischemic preconditioning bouts of exercise may possess immediate protective effects against ischemia-reperfusion injury. However, underlying mechanisms are largely unknown. This study compared the impact of single and repeated handgrip exercise versus remote ischemic preconditioning on inflammatory biomarkers in patients with cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD).

Interval exercise, but not endurance exercise, prevents endothelial ischemia-reperfusion injury in healthy subjects.

Endothelial ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury importantly contributes to the poor prognosis during ischemic (myocardial) events. Preconditioning, i.e.