Hugo Tannus Furtado de Mendonça-Filho, Kelly Cristina Pereira, Mariane Fontes, Daniel Augusto de Souza Aranha Vieira, Maria Lucia A Furtado de Mendonça, Luiz Antonio de Almeida Campos, and Hugo Caire Castro-Faria-Neto
Abstract:
Introduction
Cardiovascular surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) has improved in past decades, but inflammatory activation in this setting is still unpredictable and is associated with several postoperative complications. Perioperative levels of macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) and other inflammatory mediators could be implicated in adverse outcomes in cardiac surgery.