1. Management of immune dysfunction after adult cardiac surgery
J. Scott Rankin, MD, Olusola Oguntolu, MD, Robert S. Binford, MD, D. Scott Trochtenberg, MD, Lawrence H. Muhlbaier, PhD, Charles W. Stratton, MD 
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 
Volume 142, Issue 3, Pages (September 2011)
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2. Figure 1
Mean ± standard deviation of course of PMI for 3 days before (−3) to 5 days after (+5) beginning IVIgG therapy in 44 postoperative patients. IVIgG therapy was begun on day zero (0). IVIgG was associated with a consistent reversal of worsening of postoperative morbidity and a highly significant treatment effect, using each patient as his/her own control (P < .0001). See text for details. PMI, Postoperative morbidity index; SD, standard deviation; IVIG, intravenous immunoglobulin.
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