Abstract
We studied 30 consecutive patients who underwent coronary stenting with respect to postprocedure endothelial dysfunction and levels of pre- and postprocedure cytokines. Patients with severe impairment of flow-mediated dependent dilation, but not flow- mediated independent dilation, had higher concentrations of C-reactive protein before percutaneous coronary intervention (12.9 ± 20.2 vs 5.6 ± 13.0 μg/ml, p = 0.04) and 24 hours after stenting (18.8 ± 20.8 vs 11.8 ± 20.0 μg/ml, p = 0.05) than patients without severe abnormities of systemic endothelial function. Thus, endothelium-dependent dilation abnormalities were related to the systemic inflammatory state, whereas endothelium-independent dilation abnormalities were not related to the inflammatory status of the patient.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1420-1423 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | American Journal of Cardiology |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue number | 11 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Dec 2004 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This study was supported by Grant RR-109 from the University of Vermont General Clinical Research Center, Burlington, Vermont, and by a grant from Boston Scientific, Inc., Natick, Massachusetts.