PMID: 22334903Feb 16, 2012Paper

Ghrelin secretion in patients, operated on cholelithiasis

Khirurgiia
I V Tereshchenko, P E Kaiushev

Abstract

The grelin blood level was measured on 54 patients, of whom 18 were healthy volunteers; 20 patients with cholecystolithiasis had been measured perioperatively during the cholecystectomy; and the rest 16 patients of the study group had had cholecystectomy 2-15 years ago. All patients demonstrated perioperative hypergrelinemy with the normalization of the grelin level during the long-term follow-up. Grelin is considered to have certain immunomodulating and anti-inflammatory effects, thus improving the postoperative regeneration. Therefore, the increase of grelin blood level during the perioperative period is considered to be a defense reaction.

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