Urinary methylmalonic acid in patients with acute myocardial infarction

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 217-222

  Celik, Turgay ^a,b   Kardesoglu, Ejder ^a   Iyisoy, Atila ^a   Ozcan, Omer ^b   Kilic, Selim ^a   Yaman, Halil ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b GATA HAYDARPASA TRAINING HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Methylmalonic acid; Vitamin B 12

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATINE KINASE; CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; METHYLMALONIC ACID; TROPONIN I;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHYLMALONIC ACIDURIA; MUSCLE NECROSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; FUMARATES; HUMANS; MALE; MALEATES; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; VITAMIN B 12;

EID: 64349105596     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000204353     Document Type: Article

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