Table 3.

Plasma concentrations of IL-6, cortisol, LXA4, and RvD in patients with and without postoperative complications

Cytokine	Median preoperative [IQR]	Median POD-1 [IQR]	Median POD-3 [IQR]	Median POD-5 [IQR]
IL-6, pg/mL
Complications, n = 9	34 [19.33–46.25]	254 [82.25–593.3]	98 [54.75–268.3]	76 [50–284.8]
No complications, n = 31	27 [0–115]	206 [38–359]	128 [44–286]	59 [3–163]
P value	0.999	0.999	0.999	0.991
Cortisol, pg/mL
Complications, n = 9	28.1 [13.60–40.66]	34.75 [31.19–87.6]	27.72 [8.46–46.2]	30.88 [16.4–48.3]
No complications, n = 29	33.34 [16.8–54.37]	40 [25.69–81.35]	39.12 [17.96–51.78]	40.36 [13.52–56.21]
p value	0.999	0.999	0.999	0.999
LXA4, pg/mL
Complications, n = 9	3.95 [1.57–19.52]	3.2 [1.05–6.25]	3.15 [1.12–8.63]	2.87 [1.23–6.01]
No complications, n = 31	7 [2.01–17.24]	4.21 [1.48–8.99]	4.93 [1.68–10.64]	5.96 [2.27–13.63]
p value	0.999	0.968	0.999	0.534
RvD, pg/mL
Complications, n = 9	1.13 [0.56–1.85]	0.43 [0.28–1.5]	0.76 [0.28–1.03]	1.02 [0.48–1.39]
No complications, n = 27	0.89 [0.6–1.5]	0.68 [0.47–1.03]	0.98 [0.67–1.93]	1.01 [0.69–2]
p value	0.999	0.435	0.501	0.999

IL-6 interleukin 6, LXA4 lipoxin A4, RvD resolvin D, IQR interquartile range, POD postoperative day