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SynthesisNeurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics2016

Blood/Brain Biomarkers of Inflammation After Stroke and Their Association With Outcome: From C-Reactive Protein to Damage-Associated Molecular Patterns.

Alejandro Bustamante, Alba Simats, Andrea Vilar-Bergua, Teresa García-Berrocoso, Joan Montaner

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Synthesis in Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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54citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.8field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

54 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 95 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alejandro BustamanteNeurovascular Research Laboratory, Institut de Recerca, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron (VHIR), Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Alba SimatsNeurovascular Research Laboratory, Institut de Recerca, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron (VHIR), Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Andrea Vilar-BerguaNeurovascular Research Laboratory, Institut de Recerca, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron (VHIR), Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Teresa García-BerrocosoNeurovascular Research Laboratory, Institut de Recerca, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron (VHIR), Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Joan MontanerNeurovascular Research Laboratory, Institut de Recerca, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron (VHIR), Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. joan.montaner@vhir.org.
Vall d'Hebron Institut de Recerca · ESUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stroke represents one of the most important causes of disability and death in developed countries. However, there is a lack of prognostic tools in clinical practice to monitor the neurological condition and predict the final outcome. Blood biomarkers have been proposed and studied in this indication; however, no biomarker is currently used in clinical practice. The stroke-related neuroinflammatory processes have been associated with a poor outcome in stroke, as well as with poststroke complications. In this review, we focus on the most studied blood biomarkers of this inflammatory processes, cytokines, and C-reactive protein, evaluating its association with outcome and complications in stroke through the literature, and performing a systematic review on the association of C-reactive protein and functional outcome after stroke. Globally, we identified uncertainty with regard to the association of the evaluated biomarkers with stroke outcome, with little added value on top of clinical predictors such as age or stroke severity, which makes its implementation unlikely in clinical practice for global outcome prediction. Regarding poststroke complications, despite being more practical scenarios in which to make medical decisions following a biomarker prediction, not many studies have been performed, although there are now some candidates for prediction of poststroke infections. Finally, as potential new candidates, we reviewed the pathophysiological actions of damage-associated molecular patterns as triggers of the neuroinflammatory cascade of stroke, and their possible use as biomarkers.

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AnimalsBiomarkersC-Reactive ProteinCytokinesHumansInflammationStrokeBiomarkersC-Reactive ProteinCytokinesAlarminsBiomarkersC-reactive proteinCytokinesInflammationOutcomeStroke

Identifiers

PMID27538777
PMCPMC5081112
OpenAlexW2514637368

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