Measurement of the inflammatory response in the early postoperative period after hip and knee arthroplasty.
Marcin Krzysztof WaskoKonstancja Bobecka-WesołowskaRyszard TomasiukJacek KowalczewskiPublished in: Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine (2016)
IL-6 has faster kinetics and is less influenced by patient weight, therefore it seems to be more useful in clinical practice. Summary measures describe the inflammatory response well and are easier to analyze than multiple analyses of single time points.