ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2025
Effect of ketamine on cellular immunity and inflammation in patients who undergo laparoscopic colon cancer surgery: a retrospective study.
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Objective: Anesthesia during the surgery impairs immune systems. Ketamine is an anesthetic with immune protective effects. This study intended to investigate the effect of a ketamine-involved anesthetic regimen on cellular immunity and inflammatory cytokines in patients who undergo laparoscopic colon cancer surgery. Methods: This retrospective study screened 60 patients who underwent laparoscopic colon cancer surgery with an anesthesia regimen involving ketamine (N = 30, ketamine group) or not (N = 30, opioid group). Data on surgery-related parameters, blood pressure, heart rate (HR), blood routine examination parameters, cluster of differentiation (CD) 3 Results: The 1 h-postoperative pain score ( Conclusion: A ketamine-involved anesthetic regimen seems to be correlated with the improvement of cellular immunity and inflammation with a tolerable safety profile. However, more studies with a prospective, randomized, controlled design are needed to verify this finding and draw a solid conclusion.
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