The -174G/C interleukin-6 polymorphism influences postoperative interleukin-6 levels and postoperative atrial fibrillation. Is atrial fibrillation an inflammatory complication?

Circulation

Volumn 108, Issue 10 SUPPL., 2003, Pages

  Gaudino, Mario ^a   Andreotti, Felicita ^b   Zamparelli, Roberto ^b   Di Castelnuovo, Augusto ^b   Nasso, Giuseppe ^b   Burzotta, Francesco ^b   Iacoviello, Licia ^b   Donati, Maria Benedetta ^b   Schiavello, Rocco ^b   Maseri, Attilio ^b   Possati, Gianfederico ^b  

^a FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aortocoronary bypass; Atrial fibrillation; Genetics

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYTOSINE; FIBRINOGEN; GUANINE; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART RATE; HEART RHYTHM; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS);

EID: 0041414587     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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