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Inflammatory responses after surgery
Susanne Herroeder1, Marcel E Durieux, Markus W Hollmann
1Department of Anesthesiology, University of Maastricht, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Hospital Medicine (London, England : 1998)
|March 21, 2002
Abstract:
The inflammatory response after major surgery is of great importance for patients, physicians and perioperative medicine in general. This article, although not intended to be comprehensive, provides an overview of present knowledge about inflammatory mechanisms, predictive parameters and therapeutic approaches.