TY - JOUR
TI - May We Use Non-Invasive Indices of Aortic Stiffness and Endothelial
Glycocalyx as Biomarkers for Idiopathic Pulmonary Artery Hypertension
Follow-Up?
AU - Triantafyllidi, Helen
AU - Birmpa, Dionysia
AU - Benas, Dimitrios and
AU - Ikonomidis, Ignatios
AU - Schoinas, Antonis
AU - Trivilou, Paraskevi and
AU - Frantzeskaki, Frantzeska
AU - Orfanos, Stylianos E.
JO - MEDICINA-LITHUANIA
PY - 2021
VL - 57
TODO - 6
SP - null
PB - MDPI
SN - null
TODO - 10.3390/medicina57060558
TODO - aortic stiffness; endothelial glycocalyx; idiopathic pulmonary arterial
hypertension
TODO - Idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH) initial evaluation and
follow-up, a rare and incurable disease if left untreated, is based on a
multiparametric approach (functional status of the patient, biomarkers,
hemodynamic parameters and imaging evaluation of right heart
impairment). Arterial stiffness (AS) and endothelial glycocalyx are
indices of systemic circulation. We present the 3-years follow-up of a
female IPAH patient. We propose aortic stiffness and endothelial
glycocalyx indices as non-invasive markers of either improvement or
deterioration of IPAH disease.
ER -