New Trends In Biomarkers and Diseases Research: An Overview

Author(s): Carmen María Puche-Morenilla, Luis García de Guadiana Romualdo and Juan Antonio Vílchez

DOI: 10.2174/9781681084954117010012

Current Trends in Biomarkers of Acute Coronary Syndrome

Pp: 251-284 (34)

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Abstract

SHS investigation development is considered from the geographical and historical viewpoint. 3 stages are described. Within Stage 1 the work was carried out in the Department of the Institute of Chemical Physics in Chernogolovka where the scientific discovery had been made. At Stage 2 the interest to SHS arose in different cities and towns of the former USSR. Within Stage 3 SHS entered the international scene. Now SHS processes and products are being studied in more than 50 countries.

Abstract

Evaluation of patients presented to the emergency department with a complaint of chest pain or other signs and/or symptoms suggestive of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is expensive and time-consuming. Nowadays, cardiac troponins (cardiac troponins I and T) are established as the standard biomarkers for prognostic evaluation and the detection of myocardial lesion of patients with ACS. Several studies have demonstrated that increases in biomarkers upstream from biomarkers of myocardial injury such as acute phase reactants, markers of inflammation, plaque destabilization and rupture biomarkers, cellular adhesion molecules and biomarkers of ischemia may identify patients with higher risk of having a cardiac event. The focus of this review is to provide information on biomarkers, specifically cardiac troponin, interleukin-6 and copeptin, which has become very important to improve the diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome and to predict prognosis following an actual event.

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