The serum pentraxin-3 is elevated in patients with cardiac syndrome X

• Main Authors: Eyüp Büyükkaya (Author), Mehmet Fatih Karakaş (Author), Mustafa Kurt (Author), Sedat Motor (Author), Adnan Burak Akcay (Author), Şule Büyükkaya (Author), Esra Karakaş (Author), Nihat Şen (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: KARE Publishing, 2013-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objectives: Cardiac syndrome X (CSX) is a clinical entity that is defined as normal coronary arteries with angina pectoris and objective sins of ischemia. The correlation between CSX and inflammatory markers such as high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) is well established, however an associa...