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PTX3, A Prototypical Long Pentraxin, Is an Early Indicator of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Humans

DOI

423

Citations

24

References

2000

Year

Giuseppe Peri, Martino Introna, Domenico Corradi, Giuseppe Iacuitti, Stefano Signorini, Fausto Avanzini, Fabrizio Pizzetti, Aldo P. Maggioni, Tiziano Moccetti, Marco Metra,
Circulation

Abstract

PTX3 is present in the intact myocardium, increases in the blood of patients with AMI, and disappears from damaged myocytes. We suggest that PTX3 is an early indicator of myocyte irreversible injury in ischemic cardiomyopathy.

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