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Case Reports
. 1994 May;47(5):405-7.

[Changes in plasma interleukin 6 in a surgical case of left atrial myxoma]

[Article in Japanese]
T Osada  1 , M Cho, H Fukushima, T Kudo, M Sakamoto, K Furukawa
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  • PMID: 8196249
Case Reports

[Changes in plasma interleukin 6 in a surgical case of left atrial myxoma]

[Article in Japanese]
T Osada et al. Kyobu Geka. 1994 May.

Abstract

It was recently described that the cardiac myxoma produced Interleukin-6 (IL-6) as a kind of cytokines, and the constitutional signs in patients with cardiac myxoma were due to the IL-6 production. We measured the values of plasma IL-6 concentration before and after surgical therapy. It was decreased from 7.2 pg/ml to less than 4.0 pg/ml two months after surgical removal of the myxoma. It is recommended that the measurement of IL-6 is useful for screening of cardiac myxoma and postoperative follow-up.

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