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Role Of Microrna-208a As A Diagnostic And Prognostic Marker In Patients With St-Elevation Myocardial Infarction, Abou Bakr Mohamed Mohamed Hammad Salama
Role Of Microrna-208a As A Diagnostic And Prognostic Marker In Patients With St-Elevation Myocardial Infarction, Abou Bakr Mohamed Mohamed Hammad Salama
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Acute Myocardial infarction (AMI) is the leading cause of death worldwide. Diagnosis of AMI depends on presenting symptoms, electrocardiogram (ECG), and cardiac troponins (cTns). Troponins are not good markers for patients presenting at the first hour of chest pain, so there is still a need for a marker that can be detected within the first hour of presentation, with high specificity and sensitivity, guide the medical decisions and give good insight on the expected prognosis. Previous studies reported miR-208a as a cardiac specific microRNA that can be detected in the plasma as early as 15 min of cardiac insult and …