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Ann Thorac Surg 2002;73:608-609
© 2002 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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^a Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Primary Children’s Medical Center, 100 North Medical Dr, Salt Lake City, UT 84113, USA

e-mail: jhawkins@med.utah.edu

This study by Dr Hovels-Gurich and associates from Aachen, Germany, demonstrates a correlation between elevated levels of IL-6 and the severity of cyanosis that occurs prior to operation in a group of 10 infants with tetralogy of Fallot. They correspondingly found lower levels of preoperative IL-6 in a group of 10 infants who had predominantly left-to-right shunts, including atrioventricular canal or ventricular septal defect. They also measured levels of IL-10, an antiinflammatory cytokine, and compared the ratio of IL-6 to IL-10 in these two clinical groups. During cardiopulmonary bypass IL-6 levels were higher and IL-10 and ratio of IL-10 to IL-6 levels were . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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