Electroacupuncture Pretreatment as a Novel Avenue to Protect Brain against Ischemia and Reperfusion Injury
Figure 4
Effects of EA pretreatment in clinical trials. This diagram shows the results of 2 clinical trials concerning the neuroprotection and myocardial protection of EA pretreatment. (a, b) Neuroprotective effect of EA pretreatment in patients undergoing craniocerebral tumor resection ((a) changes of S100β at different time points; (b) changes of NSE at different time points). (c, d) Myocardial protection of EA pretreatment in patients undergoing heart valve replacement surgery ((c) serum cTnI levels during 72 hours after the removal of aorta cross-clamping; (d) inotrope scores over the first 48 hours after arrival in the ICU). EA: electroacupuncture; S100β: S100 calcium-binding protein β; NSE: neuronspecific enolase; cTnI: cardiac troponin I; ICU: intensive care unit. These figures ware adapted from [44, 56].
