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- Title
Novel biomarkers in acute heart failure: MR-pro-adrenomedullin.
- Authors
Peacock, W. Frank
- Abstract
First isolated from human pheochromocytoma cells, adrenomedullin (ADM) is a peptide hormone with natriuretic, vasodilatory, and hypotensive effects mediated by cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), nitric oxide, and renal prostaglandin systems. ADM expression occurs in many tissues and organ systems, including cardiovascular, renal, pulmonary, cerebrovascular, gastrointestinal, and endocrine tissues where it acts as a circulating hormone and a local autocrine and paracrine hormone. ADM plasma concentrations are increased in hypertension, chronic renal disease, and heart failure. As ADM is unstable in vitro, it is necessary to measure its mid-regional pro-hormone fragment, the levels of which correspond to ADM concentration (MR-proADM). The prognostic potential of MR-proADM was recently demonstrated in the Biomarkers in Acute Heart Failure (BACH) trial. In this trial of 568 acute heart failure patients, MR-proADM was superior to both brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) and NT-proBNP in predicting mortality within 14 days. MR-proADM also provided significant additive incremental predictive value for 90-day mortality when added to BNP and NT-proBNP.
- Subjects
ADRENOMEDULLIN; HEART failure; BIOMARKERS; EMERGENCY medicine; BRAIN natriuretic factor
- Publication
Clinical Chemistry & Laboratory Medicine, 2014, Vol 52, Issue 10, p1433
- ISSN
1434-6621
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/cclm-2014-0222