Disturbances in melatonin, cortisol and core body temperature rhythms after major surgery

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 290-298

  Gögenur, Ismail ^a   Ocak, Ubbat ^a   Altunpinar, Ömer ^a   Middleton, Benita ^b   Skene, Debra J ^b   Rosenberg, Jacob ^a  

^a GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; MELATONIN; OPIATE;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY TEMPERATURE DISORDER; BODY TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; CALCULATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORE TEMPERATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; LIGHT; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MAJOR SURGERY; MALE; NIGHT; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL PATIENT;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MELATONIN; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33846605478     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-006-0256-5     Document Type: Article

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