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Table 3.

Immunoglobulin G, A, M and total lymphocyte concentrations (mean ± SEM) at baseline, day of surgery (0) and on postoperative days 2, 4 and 10 in patients who received either Impact preoperatively and postoperatively (IMN) or Isosource postoperatively (STD).

	Baseline	Day 0	POD 2	POD 4	POD 10	P value ^a
	Baseline	Day 0	POD 2	POD 4	POD 10	Group	Time	Group × Time
Immunoglobulin G (g/L)
STD	11.03 ± 1.26	9.40 ± 1.19	6.93 ± 0.69 ^c	7.36 ± 1.03	9.50 ± 1.47	0.37	0.0047	0.56
IMN	13.08 ± 2.68	12.28 ± 2.03	8.15 ± 0.61	8.83 ± 0.91	10.25 ± 1.32	0.37	0.0047	0.56
Immunoglobulin A (g/L)
STD	3.33 ± 0.09	2.88 ± 0.17	2.10 ± 0.14 ^b	2.43 ± 0.26	3.43 ± 0.21	0.15	0.0001	0.35
IMN	2.85 ± 0.10	2.70 ± 0.11	1.93 ± 0.26	2.35 ± 0.28	2.80 ± 0.16
Immunoglobulin M (g/L)
STD	1.34 ± 0.49	1.32 ± 0.43	0.80 ± 0.26	0.86 ± 0.27	1.67 ± 0.32	0.36	0.0028	0.17
IMN	0.90 ± 0.27	0.88 ± 0.31	0.57 ± 0.21	0.65 ± 0.22	0.89 ± 0.25
Total lymphocytes (10⁹/L)
STD	2.05 ± 0.56	2.05 ± 0.11	1.12 ± 0.30	1.23 ± 0.19	1.66 ± 0.34	0.98	0.026	0.56
IMN	1.89 ± 0.16	1.63 ± 0.25	1.43 ± 0.28	1.43 ± 0.10	1.80 ± 0.35

Data are expressed as mean ± SEM; ^a Two-way repeated measures analysis of variance; ^b P < 0.05 for paired t-test vs. the preceding measurement; ^c P < 0.01 for paired t-test vs. the preceding measurement.