Affiliation: Medical University
- Architecture of the thrombi removed from coronary artery bypass grafts in a patient with acute myocardial infarctionGrzegorz Marek
Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University School of Medicine, 80 Pradnicka Str, 31 202 Krakow, Poland
J Thromb Thrombolysis 30:372-4. 2010..These findings help explain resistance of such thrombi to fibrinolysis and faster plaque growth related to fibrin accumulation...
- Increased thrombin generation and platelet activation are associated with deficiency in high molecular weight multimers of von Willebrand factor in patients with moderate-to-severe aortic stenosisJoanna Natorska
John Paul II Hospital, Krakow, Poland
Heart 97:2023-8. 2011..It has also been reported that AS is associated with increased activation of blood coagulation...
- Does diabetes accelerate the progression of aortic stenosis through enhanced inflammatory response within aortic valves?Joanna Natorska
Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, 80 Pradnicka Str, 31 202 Kracow, Poland
Inflammation 35:834-40. 2012..84, p = 0.036). Diabetes mellitus is associated with enhanced inflammation within AS valves, measured by CRP expression, which may contribute to faster AS progression...
- Markers of pulmonary hypertension in potential candidates to heart transplantationKarol Wierzbicki
Departament of Cardiovascular Surgery and Transplantology, Collegium Medicum of Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Przegl Lek 63:1263-8. 2006..Pulmonary hypertension (PH) with pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) 320-480 ARU resistant to therapy is a contraindication for orthotopic heart transplantation (HTX)...
- Fibrin presence within aortic valves in patients with aortic stenosis: association with in vivo thrombin generation and fibrin clot propertiesJoanna Natorska
Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University School of Medicine, 80 Pradnicka St, 31 202 Krakow, Poland
Thromb Haemost 105:254-60. 2011..In vivo thrombin generation and fibrin clot formation are associated with the extent of Fn presence within leaflets, which might contribute to the AS progression...