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Pre-surgery status determines inflammation levels post-elective surgery
2015-09-10
Abstract excerpt
In the present study we quantified a panel of systemic inflammation parameters in patients undergoing elective surgery with a view to evaluate pre-surgical inflammation status in relation to consequences post-surgery. The investigation revealed significantly decreased levels of plasma TNF-α, IL1-β, IL7, IL-8, MIP-1a and IL-1Ra in 79% of patients at 6 hrs post-surgery which have been designated by us a ‘hypo-respon...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 5433048d-56bf-55e5-86cb-fefcf03a52f9
- DOI
- 10.12688/f1000research.6991.1
