Blood Immunoglobulins, Complement and TNF Receptor Following Minimally Invasive Surgery in Patients Undergoing Pulmonary Lobectomy

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Surgery is associated with disturbances in immune function, which include an acute activation response and longer term immune suppression. The practical reason for this study was the finding that improvements in clinical progress following minimally invasive (keyhole) surgery were not closely linked to any individual biomarker, and few prospective controlled trials of keyhole versus conventional open surgery had been performed. This study was part of a larger investigation of acute phase [1] and lymphocyte [2] responses to surgical stress, in which differences between keyhole and open surgery were detected. 1. Eur J Cardiothoracic Surg doi: 10.1016/S1010-7940(01)00841-7 2. Eur J Clin Invest DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2362.2000.00622.x

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