The articles collected in this volume largely arose from two related
meetings held last spring. The first was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina
on April 11-12, 1997 and was titled Nuevos Avances en el Fenómeno de
Isquemia y Reperfusión (New Advances in the Phenomenon of Ischemia and
Reperfusion).
The second meeting took place in Stará Lesná located in the High Tatras
Mountains of the Slovak Republic on June 27-30, 1997.
Both meetings were sponsored by several organizations including the
International Society and Federation of Cardiology, the International
Society for Heart Research and The American Heart Association.