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Investigating Aortic Valve Calcification via Isolation and Culture of T Lymphocytes using Feeder Cells from Irradiated Buffy Coat
Published on: February 4, 2021
C-reactive protein in aortic valve disease
Pedro L Sanchez1, Anna Maria Mazzone
1Instituto de Ciencias del Corazón (ICICOR), Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid, C/Ramón y Cajal, 47005, Valladolid, Spain. pedrolsanchez@secardiologia.es
Abstract:
Aortic Valve Disease, includes a range of disorder severity from mild leaflet thickening without valve obstruction, "aortic sclerosis", to severe calcified aortic stenosis. It is a slowly progressive active process of valve modification similar atherosclerosis for cardiovascular risk factors, lipoprotein deposition, chronic inflammation, and calcification. Systemic signs of inflammation, as wall and serum CRP, similar to those found in atherosclerosis, are present in patients with degenerative aortic valve stenosis and may be expression of a common disease, useful in monitoring of stenosis progression.
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