GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR-15 IN BLACK PATIENTS WITH ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AND ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME IS ASSOCIATED WITH LEFT VENTRICULAR REMODELING

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (11) ◽  
pp. A149
Author(s):  
Judith E. Mitchell ◽  
Daniel Fung ◽  
Roseann Chesler ◽  
Haroon Kamran ◽  
Erdal Cavusoglu
2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. S63
Author(s):  
Lauren T. Wasson ◽  
William Whang ◽  
Sujith Kuruvilla ◽  
Manjunath Harlapur ◽  
Karina Davidson ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 98-102
Author(s):  
T. M. Poponina ◽  
K. I. Gunderina ◽  
Yu. S. Poponina ◽  
M. V. Soldatenko

Aim:to study the dynamic of echocardiographic parameters in patients with acute coronary syndrome associated with anxiety and depressive disorders during the therapy by innovative Russian drug containing release-active antibodies to the brain-specific protein S-100 (Tenoten) in-hospital and during six months of treatment.Material and Methods. 54 patients with acute coronary syndrome associated with anxiety and depressive disorders were randomized into 2 groups: patients of group 1 were administered with anti-anxiety medicament Tenoten, 6 tablets per day in addition to the therapy for acute coronary syndrome; group 2 received placebo. All patients underwent echocardiography at inpatient and outpatient stages six months after randomization.Results. Clinically significant anxiety and subclinical depression were detected in patients of both study groups. The intake of anti-anxiety drug Tenoten for six months contributed to anxiety reduction, myocardial contractility improvement, and a decrease in the left ventricular volume indices. Negative changes were observed in comparison group: a decrease in the left ventricular ejection fraction, increase in volume indices, and decline in the left ventricular relaxation.Conclusion. Administration of Tenoten at a dose of six tablets per day to patients with acute coronary syndrome in combination with affective disorders resulted not only in improvement of a mental status, but it also contributed to suppression of the left ventricular remodeling processes.


2012 ◽  
Vol 58 (8) ◽  
pp. 1233-1241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Widera ◽  
Evangelos Giannitsis ◽  
Tibor Kempf ◽  
Mortimer Korf-Klingebiel ◽  
Beate Fiedler ◽  
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Abstract BACKGROUND Growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF15) is a stress-responsive cytokine and biomarker that is produced after myocardial infarction and that is related to prognosis in acute coronary syndrome (ACS). We hypothesized that secreted proteins that activate GDF15 production may represent new ACS biomarkers. METHODS We expressed clones from an infarcted mouse heart cDNA library in COS1 cells and assayed for activation of a luciferase reporter gene controlled by a 642-bp fragment of the mouse growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF15) gene promoter. We measured the circulating concentrations of follistatin-like 1 (FSTL1) and GDF15 in 1369 patients with ACS. RESULTS One cDNA clone that activated the GDF15 promoter–luciferase reporter encoded the secreted protein FSTL1. Treatment with FSTL1 activated GDF15 production in cultured cardiomyocytes. Transgenic production of FSTL1 stimulated GDF15 production in the murine heart, whereas cardiomyocyte-selective deletion of FSTL1 decreased production of GDF15 in cardiomyocytes, indicating that FSTL1 is sufficient and required for GDF15 production. In ACS, FSTL1 emerged as the strongest independent correlate of GDF15 (partial R2 = 0.26). A total of 106 patients died of a cardiovascular cause during a median follow-up of 252 days. Patients with an FSTL1 concentration in the top quartile had a 3.7-fold higher risk of cardiovascular death compared with patients in the first 3 quartiles (P < 0.001). FSTL1 remained associated with cardiovascular death after adjustment for clinical, angiographic, and biochemical variables. CONCLUSIONS Our study is the first to use expression cloning for biomarker discovery upstream of a gene of interest and to identify FSTL1 as an independent prognostic biomarker in ACS.


2011 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 203-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc P. Bonaca ◽  
David A. Morrow ◽  
Eugene Braunwald ◽  
Christopher P. Cannon ◽  
Songtao Jiang ◽  
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