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The variations in the immunologic features and interleukin-6 levels for the surgical treatment of cardiac myxomas.
Surgery today - 1 Jan 2007
Yokomuro Hiroki, Yoshihara Katsunori, Watanabe Yoshinori, Shiono Noritsugu, Koyama Nobuya, Takanashi Yoshinori
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: In this study, we propose the existence of a relationship between cardiac myxomas and the immunologic features or interleukin-6 (IL-6), while also considering the optimal treatment of cardiac myxoma, especially "familial myxoma." METHODS: In a 19-year period at our hospital, 20 patients underwent 21 operations for cardiac myxomas. The immunologic features and the IL-6 levels were measured pre-operatively...
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