Reduced Concentrations of NSE, S100β, Aβ, and Proinflammatory Cytokines in Elderly Patients Receiving Ultrasound-Guided Combined Lumbar Plexus-Sciatic Nerve Block during Hip Replacement

Table 5

Proinflammatory cytokine levels in the two groups.

Treatments	N	IL-6		TNF-α		IL-1β		Hs-CRP
		Before surgery	10 days after surgery	Before surgery	10 days after surgery	Before surgery	10 days after surgery	Before surgery	10 days after surgery
Ultrasound-guided combined lumbar plexus-sciatic nerve block	58	52.11 ± 12.01	102.30 ± 36.98	48.35 ± 13.47	80.88 ± 22.78	35.72 ± 3.82	45.54 ± 5.68	18.42 ± 0.19	23.93 ± 2.60
Combined spinal-epidural anesthesia	62	53.86 ± 11.85	124.53 ± 41.31^a	44.17 ± 11.11	101.56 ± 27.04^a	35.66 ± 4.83	50.90 ± 5.59^a	18.5 ± 0.29	28.02 ± 2.17^a
T		0.803	3.098	1.859	4.515	0.075	5.208	1.774	9.378
P		0.4235	0.0024	0.0655	<0.0001	0.940	<0.0001	0.079	<0.0001

indicates compared with combined spinal-epidural anesthesia; ^aindicates compared with that before surgery.