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[Enterovirus infection as a risk factor of acute coronary syndrome and its complications].

Abstract
Antigens of enteroviruses were detected quantitatively in the modified complement-binding reaction in blood samples from 102 of the 208 (49%) patients with ACS, in coronary artery tissues from 23 of 24 and heart from 51 of 94 (54.3%) patients with MI who died from cardiogenic shock and/or cardiac rupture. The relative level of enterovirus antigen (RLEVA) in the blood of patients with MI complicated and uncomplicated by cardiogenic shock and/or cardiac rupture was 0.42 +/- 0.04 and 0.29 +/- 0.02 arbitrary units respectively (p = 0.032) compared with 0.21 +/- 0.07 in patients with unstable angina (UA) (p = 0.0001). RLEVA in patients with UA was significantly lower than in those with uncomplicated MI (p < 0.011). RLEVA in necrotized myocardial areas after death from cardiogenic shock (0.54 +/- 0.18) and/or cardiac rupture (0.46 +/- 0.15) was higher than outside MI zones (0.30 +/- 0.14 and 0.26 +/- 0.10 respectively) (p < 0.01). RLEVA in coronary vessels feeding the necrotic zones of patients with MI complicated by cardiogenic shock (0.44 +/- 0.18) was higher (p = 0.03) than in the vessel feeding tissues outside the MI zone (0.29 +/- 0.19). It is concluded that enterovirus infection is a factor of ACS; it is directly involved in its pathogenesis and promotes the development of cardiogenic shock and/or cardiac rupture.
AuthorsV Ia Plotkin, V L Voronel', M A Timoshina, Z A Zaripova, E A Murina, N N Khromov-Borisov
JournalKlinicheskaia meditsina (Klin Med (Mosk)) Vol. 89 Issue 2 Pg. 25-9 ( 2011) ISSN: 0023-2149 [Print] Russia (Federation)
PMID21574437 (Publication Type: English Abstract, Journal Article)
Chemical References
  • Antigens, Viral
Topics
  • Acute Coronary Syndrome (epidemiology, virology)
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Antigens, Viral (blood)
  • Carrier State (diagnosis, epidemiology, virology)
  • Enterovirus (immunology, isolation & purification)
  • Enterovirus Infections (blood, complications, diagnosis)
  • Female
  • Heart Rupture (epidemiology, virology)
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Risk Factors
  • Shock, Cardiogenic (epidemiology, virology)

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