Is the relationship between supine blood pressure and postural changes in blood pressure artefactual?
Only the broad application of the method of Blomqvist to other data sets will determine the generalizability of the present finding that initial blood pressure is unrelated to the postural change in blood pressure.
This small study suggests that high or increasing CRP levels may precede the clinical diagnosis of general or surgical/infectious complications after esophagectomy. Elevated PCT levels may more specifically and timely precede combined surgical/infectious complications mainly associated with anastomotic leakage.