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Novel Biomarkers Assessing Renal Function in Heart Failure: Relation to Inflammatory Status and Cardiac Remodelling

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2014

Year

Gerasimos Siasos, Dimitris Tousoulis, Stavroula Michalea, Evangelos Oikonomou, Μanolis Vavuranakis, Dimitris Athanasiou, Panagiotis Tourikis, Nikolaos Gouliopoulos, Antigoni Miliou, Konstantinos Mourouzis,
Current Medicinal Chemistry

Abstract

NGAL is associated with left ventricle ejection fraction, and biomarkers of inflammation and cardiac remodeling in patients with HF. These findings highlight a possible common pathogenetic mechanism of renal dysfunction, inflammatory process and cardiac dysfunction in HF.