“…Accordingly, the repeated contact of patient’s blood with the materials of the extracorporeal circulation causes oxidative stress biomarker formation, changes in the levels of inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines (such as IFN-γ, TNF-α, interleukin (IL)-1β, IL-4, IL-6, IL-10, IL-12 and IL-18), acute-phase (C-reactive protein (CRP), SSA and fibrinogen) and negative-phase (serum albumin, prealbumin and transferrin) proteins, and leukocyte subsets, which reset to a dysfunctional immunoinflammatory phenotype [recently reviewed in [7]]. Other consequences of bioincompatibility are the activation of complement and contact pathways [4,8], and platelets [9]. Indices of red blood cell damage can represent other useful markers of biocompatibility [7,10,11].…”