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ArticleJACC. Basic to translational science2025

Impact of In-Hospital PCSK9 Inhibition on Myocardial Inflammation After Myocardial Infarction: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Efthymios Ziogos, Tarek Harb, Ines Valenta, Michael A Vavuranakis, Palmer L Foran, Marlene S Williams, Michael J Blaha, Allison G Hays, Steven R Jones, Thomas H Schindler and 3 more

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Article in JACC. Basic to translational science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Pillars of Peer Review.JACC. Basic to translational science · 2026
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  7. Molecular contrast agents for post-infarct cardiac remodelling: a contemporary review.European heart journal. Imaging methods and practice · 2026
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  8. The biology of lipoprotein(a): From genetics to molecular mechanisms.European journal of clinical investigation · 2026
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  11. Do Anti-PCSK9 Monoclonal Antibodies Have Pleiotropic Effects?JACC. Basic to translational science · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Efthymios ZiogosDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Tarek HarbDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Ines ValentaDivision of Nuclear Medicine, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Michael A VavuranakisDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Palmer L ForanDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Marlene S WilliamsDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Michael J BlahaDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Allison G HaysDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Steven R JonesDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Thomas H SchindlerDivision of Nuclear Medicine, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Steven P SchulmanDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Gary GerstenblithDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Thorsten M LeuckerDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Electronic address: tleucke1@jhmi.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In a randomized trial with 55 participants from the EVACS (Evolocumab in Acute Coronary Syndrome) trials, patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (MI) or ST-segment elevation MI received a single dose of evolocumab or placebo, with myocardial inflammation assessed via

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(18)F-FDG-PET imagingacute myocardial infarctionmyocardial inflammationPCSK9 inhibition

Identifiers

PMID40439630
PMCPMC12230458

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