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cord-000753-gowyfu55	Kafkas, Nikolaos	Serum Levels of Gelatinase Associated Lipocalin as Indicator of the Inflammatory Status in Coronary Artery Disease	2012-09-04		.txt	text/plain	3230	176	45	In patients with acute coronary syndromes, serum levels of NGAL have high negative predictive value and reflecting the inflammatory status could show the severity of coronary clinical syndrome. In this study, we hypothesized that levels NGAL in blood may reflect the extent of neutrophil activation in various stages of ACS and could discriminate various types of ACS (UA, NSTEMI, and STEMI) and stable from unstable coronary syndromes. The higher levels of serum-NGAL observed in patients with ACS compared to SA could be explained by International Journal of Inflammation 7 the fact that neutrophil activation is present only in patients with acute coronary events (10, 11) . In conclusion, our study shows that serum levels of NGAL increase in patients with CAD with every coronary clinical syndrome and reflect the inflammatory status in the same population. Also in patients with ACS, serum levels of NGAL reflecting the inflammatory status could show the severity of coronary clinical syndrome (UA, NSTEMI, and STEMI).	./cache/cord-000753-gowyfu55.txt	./txt/cord-000753-gowyfu55.txt