Epidural anesthesia followed by epidural analgesia produces less inflammatory response than spinal anesthesia followed by intravenous morphine analgesia in patients with total knee arthroplasty

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 73-80

  Chloropoulou, Pelagia ^a   Iatrou, Christos ^a   Vogiatzaki, Theodosia ^a   Kotsianidis, Ioannis ^a   Trypsianis, Grigorios ^a   Tsigalou, Christina ^b   Paschalidou, Eleftheria ^b   Kazakos, Konstantinos ^a   Touloupidis, Stavros ^c   Simopoulos, Konstantinos ^c  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY GENERAL HOSPITAL OF ALEXANDROUPOLIS   (Greece)

^c DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Epidural; Inflammatory response; Spinal; Total knee arthroplasty

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CD11B ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 6; L SELECTIN; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; MORPHINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTRAVENOUS REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

EID: 84876868570     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12659/MSM.883749     Document Type: Article

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