Increased Inflammation in Pericardial Fluid Persists 48 Hours After Cardiac Surgery

Brittany Butts¹, Lee A Goeddel¹, David J George¹+8

• ¹Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, AL (J.E.D., C.-C.W., L.J.D.). Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Disease (B.B., C.-C.W., L.J.D.); Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care (C.S.); Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery (D.J.G., J.F.G.), University of Alabama at Birmingham. Department of Surgery, Wake Forest University Health Science Center, Winston-Salem, NC (J.V., C.M.F.). Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO, and Saint Louis VA Medical Center (S.J.M.). Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (L.A.G.).+1