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Alterations in the number of circulating leucocytes, phenotype of monocyte and cytokine production in patients undergoing cardiothoracic surgery.
Clinical and experimental immunology - 1 Feb 1999
Hiesmayr M J, Spittler A, Lassnigg A, Berger R, Laufer G, Kocher A, Artemiou O, Boltz-Nitulescu G, Roth E
Abstract excerpt
Changes in the differential blood cell count, monocyte phenotype and the cytokine plasma levels in a group of seven patients with cardiac surgery/cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) and nine patients with thoracic surgery/without CPB, both receiving identical opioid-based anaesthetic technique, were assessed. A significant reduction in the number of circulating lymphocytes and monocytes was observed after anaesthesia...
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