Perioperative endotoxemia and bacterial translocation during major abdominal surgery: Evidence for the protective effect of endogenous prostacyclin?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1293-1301

  Brinkmann, Alexander ^a   Wolf, Christian F ^a   Berger, Dieter ^a   Kneitinger, Elisabeth ^a   Neumeister, Birgit ^a   Büchler, Markus ^a   Radermacher, Peter ^a   Seeling, Wulf ^a   Georgieff, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

bacterial translocation; eicosanoids; endotoxin; ibuprofen; prostacyclin; sepsis; splanchnic circulation; surgery, abdominal; surgery, vascular; thromboxane

Indexed keywords

6 OXOPROSTAGLANDIN F1 ALPHA; IBUPROFEN; PROSTACYCLIN; THROMBOXANE B2;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ENDOTOXEMIA; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIMULUS LYSATE TEST; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; MALE; MESENTERY LYMPH NODE; PANCREAS RESECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 0029786778     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199608000-00005     Document Type: Article

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