Video: The Determinants of Cardiac Output

International Perfusion Journal Vol. 1 No. 4

Table of Contents /Vol. 1, No. 4    Editorial: “We Need to Get the Recognition and Respect We Deserve.”  Frank Merkle Discusses […]

Surgical Trauma Affects the Proinflammatory Status After Cardiac Surgery to a Higher Degree Than Cardiopulmonary Bypass

To quantify the contribution of bypass-induced versus trauma-induced inflammatory response after coronary artery bypass grafting, we examined plasma cytokine levels in 120 patients with coronary artery disease who were treated with or without cardiopulmonary bypass-assisted procedures.