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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2014

Emerging biomarkers in heart failure and cardiac cachexia.

Goran Loncar, Daniel Omersa, Natasa Cvetinovic, Aleksandra Arandjelovic, Mitja Lainscak

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Goran LoncarClinical Hospital Zvezdara, Cardiology Department, Dimitrija Tucovica 161, Belgrade 11000, Serbia. loncar_goran@yahoo.com.
Daniel OmersaNational Institute of Public Health, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia. dane.omersa@gmail.com.
Natasa CvetinovicClinical Hospital Zvezdara, Cardiology Department, Dimitrija Tucovica 161, Belgrade 11000, Serbia. ncvetinovic@gmail.com.
Aleksandra ArandjelovicClinical Hospital Zvezdara, Cardiology Department, Dimitrija Tucovica 161, Belgrade 11000, Serbia. drarandjelovic@yahoo.com.
Mitja LainscakDepartment of Cardiology, General Hospital Celje, Oblakova 5, Celje 3000, Slovenia. mitja.lainscak@guest.arnes.si.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biomarkers are objective tools with an important role for diagnosis, prognosis and therapy optimization in patients with heart failure (HF). To date, natriuretic peptides are closest to optimal biomarker standards for clinical implications in HF. Therefore, the efforts to identify and test new biomarkers in HF are reasonable and justified. Along the natural history of HF, cardiac cachexia may develop, and once at this stage, patient performance and prognosis is particularly poor. For these reasons, numerous biomarkers reflecting hormonal, inflammatory and oxidative stress pathways have been investigated, but only a few convey relevant information. The complex pathophysiology of HF appears far too complex to be embraced by a single biomarker; thus, a combined approach appears reasonable. With these considerations, we have reviewed the recent developments in the field to highlight key candidates with diagnostic, prognostic and therapy optimization properties, either alone or in combination.

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BiomarkersCachexiaHeart FailureHumansBiomarkers

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PMID25535078
PMCPMC4284795

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