Items for "surgical stress"

Declines in serum free and bound choline concentrations in humans after three different types of major surgery

We examined the changes in circulating choline status in humans in response to major surgery by measuring serum free and phospholipid-bound choline concentrations before, during and 1–72 h after total abdominal hysterectomy, off-pump coronary artery graft surgery or brain tumor surgery...

Keywords: bound choline, brain surgery, cortisol, free choline, hysterectomy, surgical stress