The immunosuppressive effects of volatile versus intravenous anesthesia combined with epidural analgesia on kidney cancer: a pilot randomized controlled trial.

Conclusions: The results of the current pilot study did not support the hypothesis that the suppression of the cell-mediated immunity is worse under the use of inhalational anesthesia as compared to total intravenous anesthesia, in patients undergoing kidney cancer surgery under combined low thoracic epidural analgesia and general anesthesia. PMID: 32098012 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Korean Journal of Anesthesiology - Category: Anesthesiology Tags: Korean J Anesthesiol Source Type: research