Journal:
:acta medica iranica
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abbas ghiasi department of anesthaesiology and critical care, tehran heart center, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
akbar shafiee department of cardiovascular research, tehran heart center, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
abbas salehi omran department of cardiac surgery, tehran heart center, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
neda ghaffari-marandi department of cardiovascular research, tehran heart center, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
mahmood shirzad department of cardiac surgery, tehran heart center, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
khosro barkhordari department of cardiovascular research, tehran heart center, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
this trial was performed to determine if a continuous low-dose infusion of methylprednisolone is as effective as its bolus of high-dose in reducing inflammatory response. the study was single-center, double-blinded randomized clinical trial and performed in a surgical intensive care unit of an academic hospital. in this study, 72 consecutive patients undergoing elective coronary artery bypass g...
