Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Damage

Survey of Cardiovascular Damage due to Atherosclerosis in 112 Patients

ABSTRACT Atherosclerosis is one of the most common disorders in Iran. It usually involved adult males over the age of 60 year. All Major and middle arteries are at risk and usually it has two types effects on arteries, Occlusive lesions in the site of dividing arteries and aneurysmal lesions which occure in abdominal aorta in 90%. Frequency, symptoms and pathologies of atherosclosis is still...

Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Disease

Novel Possible Biomarkers for the Cardiovascular Diseases Prognosis

Cardiovascular disease (CVD), especially heart failure (HF) as its common final pathway, is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Furthermore, oxidative and inflammatory processes represent fundamental underlying mechanisms for the development and progression of HF. Of interest, in recent years the development of markers with diagnostic and prognostic value for this pathology ...

Biomarkers in cardiovascular medicine.

Cardiovascular disease is the principal cause of death in developed countries. The underlying pathological process is arterial wall thickening due to the formation of atherosclerotic plaque, which is frequently complicated by thrombus, thereby giving rise to the possibility of acute coronary syndrome or stroke. One of the major challenges in cardiovascular medicine is to find a way of predictin...

Emerging Biomarkers in Renal Damage

1 Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, Urology, Andrology and Kidney Transplantation Unit, University of Bari, Piazza G. Cesare 11, 70124 Bari, Italy 2 Department of Nephrology, Leiden University Medical Center, Albinusdreef 2, P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands 3 Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of ...