SynthesisNeurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology2021
Serum vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) levels in ischemic stroke patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis of case-control studies.
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- Early-phase fluid diagnostic biomarkers in acute ischemic stroke: a hybrid umbrella review.Journal of neurology · 2026Pooled it
- Clinical, Imaging, and Serum Biomarker Predictors of Malignant Cerebral Infarction.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2025Article
- Is Serum VEGF-A Level an Indicator of Early-Onset Poststroke Depression?Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Article
- Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor and Ischemic Stroke Risk: A Mendelian Randomization Study.Neurology and therapy · 2024Article
- Linking evidence for targeted blood biomarkers in post-stroke cognitive impairment and dementia.Frontiers in stroke · 2024Review
- Outgrowth Endothelial Cell Conditioned Medium Negates TNF-α-Evoked Cerebral Barrier Damage: A Reverse Translational Research to Explore Mechanisms.Stem cell reviews and reports · 2023Article
- Serum angiopoietin-1 concentration does not distinguish patients with ischaemic stroke from those presenting to hospital with ischaemic stroke mimics.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2022Article
- Serum Levels of VEGF-A and Its Receptors in Patients in Different Phases of Hemorrhagic and Ischemic Strokes.Current issues in molecular biology · 2022Article
- Corneal nerve loss in patients with TIA and acute ischemic stroke in relation to circulating markers of inflammation and vascular integrity.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Neovascularization and tissue regeneration by endothelial progenitor cells in ischemic stroke.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2021Review
- Non-invasive Urinary Biomarkers in Moyamoya Disease.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Serum VEGF level is regarded to be a biomarker for the diagnosis of stroke. Even though there have been published plethora of original articles describing higher blood VEGF concentrations since the 1970s, however, there is no any meta-analysis report for serum VEGF levels in the field of evidence-based medicine yet. A systematic review was performed by searching the online biomedical databases including retrieving 14 case-control studies including within-article subgroups after fulfilling the inclusion and exclusion criteria without the beginning date restriction, until 2020 for ischemic stroke patients. The Q quantity and I
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