Biomarkers as predictors of sudden cardiac death in coronary artery disease patients with preserved left ventricular function (ARTEMIS study).
E Samuli LepojärviHeikki V HuikuriOlli-Pekka PiiraAntti M KiviniemiJohanna A MiettinenTuomas V KenttäOlavi UkkolaJuha S PerkiömäkiMikko P TulppoHeikki V HuikuriPublished in: PloS one (2018)
Elevated sST2 and hs-TnT predict the occurrence of SCD among patients with CAD and preserved left ventricular function. The association between sST2, hs-TnT and SCD may be explained by an ongoing myocardial apoptosis followed by fibrosis leading to vulnerability to malignant arrhythmias.
Keyphrases
- left ventricular
- coronary artery disease
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- heart failure
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- aortic stenosis
- acute myocardial infarction
- left atrial
- mitral valve
- oxidative stress
- climate change
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- risk assessment
- coronary artery bypass grafting
- cell death
- cardiovascular events
- cell cycle arrest
- cardiovascular disease
- type diabetes
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- ejection fraction