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Association between increased blood interleukin-6 levels on emergency department arrival and prolonged length of intensive care unit stay for blunt trauma

BACKGROUND: Systemic immune response to injury plays a key role in the pathophysiological mechanism of blunt trauma. We tested the hypothesis that increased blood interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels of blunt trauma patients on emergency department (ED) arrival are associated with poor clinical outcomes, and...

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Autores principales: Taniguchi, Masashi, Nakada, Taka-aki, Shinozaki, Koichiro, Mizushima, Yasuaki, Matsuoka, Tetsuya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4727350/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26816526
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13017-016-0063-8