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Volume 24, Issue 1 , Pages 3-7 , February 2012

Meta-analysis of the effect of central neuraxial regional anesthesia compared with general anesthesia on postoperative natural killer T lymphocyte function

Ian Conrick-Martin, FCAI, MRCPI, DIBICM (Specialist Registrar in Anaesthesia)
- Department of Anaesthesia, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Eccles St., Dublin 7, Ireland
- Correspondence: Ian Conrick-Martin, FCAI, MRCPI, DIBICM, Department of Anaesthesia, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Eccles St., Dublin 7, Ireland. Tel.: +353 1 803-2281; fax: +353 1 830-9563.
Malcolm R. Kell, MD, FRCSI, FRCS(Glasg) (Consultant Surgeon)
- Department of Surgery, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Eccles St., Dublin 7, Ireland
Donal J. Buggy, MD, MSc, FRCPI, FCAI, FRCA (Professor of Anaesthesia; Consultant in Anaesthesia)
- Department of Anaesthesia, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Eccles St., Dublin 7, Ireland
- Outcomes Research Consortium, Cleveland Clinic, OH, USA

Received 4 September 2010 ,Revised 3 August 2011 ,Accepted 6 September 2011.

Trial flow chart.

Trial flow chart.
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Fixed-effects and random-effects odds ratio meta-analysis plots. The overall fixed-effect odds ratio (OR) was 0.86 (95% CI = 0.66-1.14, P = 0.25) and the random-effect OR was 1.13 (95% CI = 0.26 - 4.9

Fixed-effects and random-effects odds ratio meta-analysis plots. The overall fixed-effect odds ratio (OR) was 0.86 (95% CI = 0.66-1.14, P = 0.25) and the random-effect OR was 1.13 (95% CI = 0.26 - 4.92, P = 0.79).
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