Monitoring of the redox potential of blood serum for the diagnosis of complications in patients with liver transplants

Abstract

We have previously found that the monitoring of the redox potential of the blood serum of patients after liver transplantation can detect acute graft dysfunction. In this study, investigations were performed according to a modified method of measuring the redox potential. The values of the redox potentials of healthy people were investigated to identify the normal levels of the measuring values of the potentials. Monitoring of the redox potential of the blood serum of patients with liver transplants gave us a possibility to establish the correlation between the magnitude and direction of shifts of potential and the development of complications such as cholestasis, pneumonia, septic conditions, an overdose of drugs. The relation between the values of redox potential shifts and the results of anti-inflammatory treatment has been detected.

Keywords

• redox potential
• liver transplantation
• cholestasis
• septic conditions