Circulating Angiopoietin-1 Is Not a Biomarker of Disease Severity or Prognosis in Pulmonary Hypertension.

Circulating angiopoietin-1 (Ang-1) has been linked to pulmonary hypertension (PH) in experimental studies. However, the clinical relevance of Ang-1 as a biomarker in PH remains unknown. We aimed to investigate the prognostic and clinical significance of Ang-1 in PH using data from the prospectively...

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Main Authors: Manuel Jonas Richter, Svenja Lena Tiede, Natascha Sommer, Thomas Schmidt, Werner Seeger, Hossein Ardeschir Ghofrani, Ralph Schermuly, Henning Gall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5089726?pdf=render