FREE: Narrative Review of the Systemic Inflammatory Reaction to Cardiac Surgery and Cardiopulmonary Bypass.

Narrative Review of the Systemic Inflammatory Reaction to Cardiac Surgery and Cardiopulmonary Bypass.

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Data from large cardiac surgery registries have been depicting a downward trend of mortality and morbidities in the last 20 years. However, de-spite decades of medical evolution, cardiac surgery and cardiopulmonary bypass still provoke a systemic inflammatory response, which occasionally leads to wors-ened outcome. This article seeks to outline the mechanism of the phenomenon.