Changes in inflammatory and vasoactive mediator profiles during valvular surgery with or without infective endocarditis: A case control pilot study

• Mahmoud Diab,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Jena, Germany, Center for Sepsis Control and Care, Jena, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1529-6046

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• Raphael Tasar,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Jena, Germany

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• Christoph Sponholz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Jena, Germany

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• Thomas Lehmann,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center of Clinical Studies, Jena, Germany

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• Mathias W. Pletz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Sepsis Control and Care, Jena, Germany, Institute for Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Jena University Hospital–Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany

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• Michael Bauer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Sepsis Control and Care, Jena, Germany, Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Jena, Germany

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• Frank M. Brunkhorst,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Sepsis Control and Care, Jena, Germany, Center of Clinical Studies, Jena, Germany

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• Torsten Doenst

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: doenst@med.uni-jena.de

  Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Jena, Germany

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