The relationship between cardiopulmonary exercise test variables, the systemic inflammatory response, and complications following surgery for colorectal cancer.
Stephen Thomas McSorleyCampbell S D RoxburghPaul G HorganDonald C McMillanPublished in: Perioperative medicine (London, England) (2018)
The present pilot study reports a possible association between preoperative CPET-derived measures of exercise tolerance, and the preoperative systemic inflammatory response, but not postoperative CRP in patients undergoing surgery for colorectal cancer.