Leptin and Soluble Leptin Receptor Changes after Pulmonary Endarterectomy: Relations to Cortisol and Cytokine Network

Abstract

Large cardiovascular surgery caused a significant inrease in serum leptin, which demostrated an acute regulation by stress factors, this effect may be secondary to the inflammatory response mediated via cytokine stimulation

Keywords

• Leptin
• soluble receptor
• pulmonary endarterectomy