Is postoperative serum urea associated with 30-day mortality in patients undergoing emergency abdominal surgery?
These results indicate that an increased serum urea concentration, but not serum creatinine concentration, in the postoperative period is associated with an increase in 30-day mortality in patients undergoing emergency abdominal surgery.
Our data point toward the therapeutic potential of neutralizing IL-1 and IL-18 simultaneously in sepsis, rather than inhibiting the upstream inflammatory caspases.