1. Minimally Invasive Extracorporeal Bypass in Minimally Invasive Heart Valve Operations: A Prospective Randomized Trial 
Hardy Baumbach, MD, Christian J. Rustenbach, MD, Samir Ahad, MD, Ragi Nagib, MD, Marc Albert, MD, Dieter Ratge, MD, Ulrich F.W. Franke, MD, PhD 
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 
Volume 102, Issue 1, Pages (July 2016)
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2. Fig 1
Levels of procalcitonin; p = 0.05 was determined using repeated-measure analysis of variance (RM ANOVA). (CECC = conventional extracorporeal circulation; CPB = cardiopulmonary bypass; MECC = minimally invasive extracorporeal circulation.)
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3. Fig 2
Levels of the proinflammatory interleukins IL-6 and IL-8; p = and p = were determined using repeated-measure analysis of variance (RM ANOVA). ). (CECC = conventional extracorporeal circulation; CPB = cardiopulmonary bypass; IL = interleukin; MECC = minimally invasive extracorporeal circulation.)
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4. Fig 3
Levels of the antiinflammatory interleukin (IL)-10; p = 0.601 was determined using repeated-measure analysis of variance (RM ANOVA). (CECC = conventional extracorporeal circulation; CPB = cardiopulmonary bypass; MECC = minimally invasive extracorporeal circulation.)
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5. Fig 4
Levels of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) and interferon-gamma (IFN-γ); p = 0.387 and p = were determined using repeated-measure analysis of variance (RM ANOVA). (CECC = conventional extracorporeal circulation; CPB = cardiopulmonary bypass; MECC = minimally invasive extracorporeal circulation.)
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6. Fig 5
Levels of cell-free hemoglobin and haptoglobin; p = and p = 0.522 were determined using repeated-measure analysis of variance (RM ANOVA). (CECC = conventional extracorporeal circulation; Hb-CF = cell-free hemoglobin; HLM = heart lung machine; MECC = minimally invasive extracorporeal circulation.)
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7. Fig 6
Levels of hemoglobin (Hb) and hematocrit (Hc); p = and p = were determined using repeated-measure analysis of variance (RM ANOVA). (CPB = cardiopulmonary bypass; CECC = conventional extracorporeal circulation; MECC = minimally invasive extracorporeal circulation.)
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