... Education and Research Hospital, Konya, Turkey; 2. Microbiology Laboratory, Konya Education and Research Hospital, Konya, Turkey Corresponding author: Recep Kesli, MD., Konya Education and Research ... Proinflammatory cy-tokines induce not only a local inflammation at the site of injury, but also systemic responses such as tachycardia, tachypnea, leukocytosis, and pyrexia ( 1). Increased levels of ... circulating levels of plasma inflammatory markers ( 7). Our results showed that the levels of serum CRP, IL-6, and TNF-α were high in all patients after surgery, and that CRP and IL-6 elevations...