Potential role of salivary cortisol levels to reflect stress response in children undergoing congenital heart surgery.
Serçin TaşarNur Dikmenİsmail BulutYunus Emre HaskılıçRukiye Ünsal SaçMehmet ŞenesMedine Ayşin TaşarMehmet TaşarPublished in: Cardiology in the young (2022)
Diurnal variability of salivary cortisol levels in children undergoing congenital heart surgery may be different from normal reference values both in preoperative and postoperative periods that can be a predictive indicator of anxiety on pre- and postoperative period for children that undergoing cardiac surgery.