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Gaseous micro-embolism (GME) is associated with systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) after open heart surgery. A missing piece of a complex puzzle?
2022-01-23
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<h4>Background</h4> Gaseous micro-embolism (GME) occurring during contemporary open heart surgery is poorly studied. Current understanding of the biological impact of cardiac surgery focuses on the surgical aggression itself together with contact activation of inflammatory cascades by the extracorporeal circulation (ECC), both promoting various degrees of a systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS). <h4>Metho...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 0b1cb16f-78cd-5b6b-8366-0bc2b0c8174b
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.01.20.22269116
