pubmed-article:9641336 | pubmed:abstractText | Experimental evidence suggests that cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) associated inflammatory response leads to endothelial injury and increased permeability, but this has been difficult to show clinically. We have investigated the use of von Willebrand factor (vWF), and urinary albumin excretion, as measured by the urinary albumin creatinine ratio (ACR), to demonstrate this. | lld:pubmed |