Kosmas Tsakiridis, Paul Zarogoulidis, Giorgos Vretzkakis, Dimitris Mikroulis, Andreas Mpakas, Georgios Kesisis, Stamatis Arikas, Alexandros Kolettas, Giorgios Moschos, Nikolaos Katsikogiannis, Nikolaos Machairiotis, Theodora Tsiouda, Stavros Siminelakis, Thomas Beleveslis, Konstantinos Zarogoulidis
BACKGROUND: The establishment of Extracorporeal Circulation (EC) significantly contributed to improvement of cardiac surgery, but this is accompanied by harmful side-effects. The most important of them is systemic inflammatory response syndrome. Many efforts have been undertaken to minimize this problem but unfortunately without satisfied solution to date. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Lornoxicam is a non steroid anti-inflammatory drug which temporally inhibits the cycloxygenase...
March 2014: Journal of Thoracic Disease