Population
Patients undergoing major abdominal operations
Comparison
Major abdominal operation (surgical trauma) vs Baseline
Design
Other
Follow-up
5 hours (ex vivo incubation)
Authors
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Does not support practice changes; hypothesis-generating for peritoneal cytokine modulation in abdominal surgery.
Peritoneal endothelial and smooth muscle cells are major contributors to the transient increase in IL-6 and MCP-1 following surgical trauma during abdominal operations.
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