High-dose cimetidine reduces proinflammatory reaction after cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1945-1949

  Tayama, Eiki ^a   Hayashida, Nobuhiko ^a   Fukunaga, Shuji ^a   Tayama, Keiichiro ^a   Takaseya, Toru ^a   Hiratsuka, Ryouichi ^a   Aoyagi, Shigeaki ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CIMETIDINE; CREATINE KINASE MB; ELASTASE; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; OXYGENATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGICAL STRESS;

AGED; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CIMETIDINE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; INTERLEUKIN-8; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

EID: 0035662323     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(01)03225-8     Document Type: Article

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