New perspectives in the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) IV: circulating ACE2 as a biomarker of systolic dysfunction in human hypertension and heart failure.

Growing evidence exists for soluble Angiotensin Converting Enzyme-2 (sACE2) as a biomarker in definitive heart failure (HF), but there is little information about changes in sACE2 activity in hypertension with imminent heart failure and in reverse remodeling.Patients with systolic HF (NYHAII-IV, enr...

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Main Authors: Katalin Úri, Miklós Fagyas, Ivetta Mányiné Siket, Attila Kertész, Zoltán Csanádi, Gábor Sándorfi, Marcell Clemens, Roland Fedor, Zoltán Papp, István Édes, Attila Tóth, Erzsébet Lizanecz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3972189?pdf=render