[Does anesthesia have an immunosuppressive effect?].
Immune depression occurs after general anaesthesia. It is related to depression of serum factors after anesthesia with ether or chloroform, or secondary to depression of antibody-producing cells after anaesthesia with halothane, nitrous oxyde or Pentothal. This immune depression augments proneness to bacterial and viral infection and to malignant disease.
D000768:Anesthesia, General; D000777:Anesthetics / Q000276:immunology / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000917:Antibody Formation / Q000187:drug effects; D006801:Humans; D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents
D000777:Anesthetics; D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents
L'Anesthésie a-t-elle un effet immunosuppresseur