Fig. 6From: Cardiac rupture complicating acute myocardial infarction: the clinical features from an observational study and animal experimentEffect of reperfusion on the incidence of CR and infarct size in mice. a Comparison of survival in mice with permanent coronary artery occlusion (Group-1, n = 36), or reperfusion following 1-h (Group-2, n = 19) or 4-h (Group 3, n = 21) ischemia. b influence of reperfusion on infarct size in relation to ischemic duration. Note that infarct size was significantly reduced by early (i.e. 1-h ischemia) but not delayed (4-h ischemia) reperfusion. Infarct size date are mean ± SEM. The group size was 6–8. *P < 0.01 vs. non-reperfused MI or 4-h IR groupBack to article page