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Should C-reactive protein be measured routinely during acute myocardial infarction?

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    After several weeks, hsCRP gradually returns to baseline but remains elevated in some patients for longer periods.13 To use hsCRP as a reliable RIR biomarker, its measurement may be delayed for at least 4 to 6 weeks after an MI to permit resolution of the acute-phase reaction.34 The recent PCI data including our registry data have suggested clinical usefulness of RIR assessment based on serial hsCRP measurement,14,16 which may reduce the risk of misunderstanding for the realistic RIR phenotype.

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    It is unlikely related to recurrent ischemia because the associations between CRP and heart failure and death were not altered by adjusting for recurrent ischemic events. Alternative explanations include an exaggerated immune response to myocardial injury,32-34 as demonstrated by the association of inflammatory cytokines with ventricular remodeling after myocardial infarction, ejection fraction, and heart failure progression.33,35,36 Finally, experimental animal studies showed that CRP may have direct harmful effects on the ischemic myocardium.

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    C-reactive protein levels might further increase in patients with unstable angina, owing to widespread vascular inflammation (17), and are associated with recurrent clinical instability and recurrent infarctions (18); however, in unstable coronary disease the rise in CRP and other markers of inflammation such as interleukin-6 occurs almost exclusively in patients with evidence of myocardial necrosis (7,8). Thus myocardial necrosis seems to elicit a more pronounced activation of CRP that is superimposed on the low-grade, vascular-mediated inflammation (6,8). Because the extent of CRP elevation in patients with MI is dominated by the inflammatory response to myocardial injury rather than vascular inflammation, it has been associated with mortality but not with recurrent infarctions (9,12,19,20).

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