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Original Articles: Adult Cardiac

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Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong, China

(Email: swan@cuhk.edu.hk).

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Although it is well recognized that hypoglycemic and hyperglycemic conditions during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) can lead to untoward clinical outcomes, normoglycemia in this particular setting may still need to be better defined. In the current randomized study involving 52 patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), Albacker and colleagues [1] demonstrated that maintaining a high blood insulin level perioperatively while maintaining the lower limit of normoglycemia could result in a reduced production of pro-inflammatory cytokines after CPB. Echoing with their previous observation [2], such treatment is associated with better myocardial protection as reflected by the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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