ArticleClinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.)2014
Evaluation of cardiovascular biomarkers in patients with age-related wet macular degeneration.
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- Efficacy of Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Treatment in Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Systemic Cardiovascular Risk Factors.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Evaluation of Blood Coagulation Parameters and ADMA, NO, IL-6, and IL-18 Serum Levels in Patients with Neovascular AMD before, during, and after the Initial Loading Phase of Intravitreal Aflibercept.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Blood platelet and serum bilirubin in the diagnosis of central serous chorioretinopathy.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2018Article
- Epigenetic modifications in hyperhomocysteinemia: potential role in diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration.Oncotarget · 2018Article
- Color Doppler imaging of the retrobulbar circulation and plasmatic biomarkers of vascular risk in age-related macular degeneration: A pilot study.Indian journal of ophthalmology · 2018Article
- Risk factors and biomarkers of age-related macular degeneration.Progress in retinal and eye research · 2016Review
- Serum levels of lipid metabolites in age-related macular degeneration.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2015Article
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Abstract
aimTo evaluate levels of homocysteine, asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA), and nitric oxide (NO), as well as activity of endothelial NO synthase (eNOS), in patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
methodsThe levels of homocysteine, ADMA, and NO and activity of eNOS in patients who were diagnosed with wet AMD by fundus fluorescein angiography (n=30) were compared to a control group with no retinal pathology (n=30).
resultsLevels of homocysteine and ADMA were found to be significantly higher in the wet AMD group than in the control group (P<0.001), whereas NO levels and eNOS activity were higher in the control group (P<0.001). In the wet AMD group, we detected a 2.64- and 0.33-fold increase in the levels of ADMA and homocysteine, respectively, and a 0.49- and 2.41-fold decrease in the eNOS activity and NO level, respectively.
conclusionElevated levels of homocysteine and ADMA were observed in patients with wet AMD. Increased ADMA may be responsible for the diminished eNOS activity found in these patients, which in turn contributes to the decrease in NO levels, which likely plays a role in the pathogenesis of AMD.
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