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      Plasma Cytokine Levels in Cardiac Chambers of Patients with Mitral Stenosis with Congestive Heart Failure

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          Abstract

          To ascertain whether elevated levels of circulating proinflammatory cytokines in patients with advanced heart failure are due to congestive heart failure or due to cachexia or infection complicating heart failure, we measured prospectively plasma concentrations of tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), interleukin-lβ (IL-lβ), interleukin2 (IL-2), and interleukin-6 (IL-6) in 12 patients with mitral stenosis with moderate congestive heart failure, but not with cachexia or infection. Blood samples were obtained from the peripheral vein and right and left atria of the patients during percutaneous mitral valvuloplasty. Levels of TNF-α, IL-lβ, IL-2, and IL-6 in the plasma from the peripheral vein and right and left atria of these patients were not elevated compared with those from the peripheral vein of a control group of 10 normal subjects. On the other hand, plasma levels of TNF-α, but not IL-lβ, IL-2 or IL·6, were elevated in 4 of 9 patients with congestive heart failure complicated with cachexia and/or infection. Our results suggest that proinflammatory cytokine levels are not elevated in congestive heart failure uncomplicated with cachexia or infection.

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          Journal
          CRD
          Cardiology
          10.1159/issn.0008-6312
          Cardiology
          S. Karger AG
          0008-6312
          1421-9751
          1996
          1996
          19 November 2008
          : 87
          : 6
          : 476-480
          Affiliations
          Department of Cardiology, Jichi Medical School, Minamikawachi, Tochigi, Japan
          Article
          177141 Cardiology 1996;87:476–480
          10.1159/000177141
          8904673
          8fffc89f-71bd-4571-990c-328cb90a197b
          © 1996 S. Karger AG, Basel

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          History
          : 23 June 1995
          : 29 November 1995
          Page count
          Pages: 5
          Categories
          General Cardiology

          General medicine,Neurology,Cardiovascular Medicine,Internal medicine,Nephrology
          Tumor necrosis factor,Interleukin,Cachexia,Mitral stenosis

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