LDL-apheresis and haemorheopheresis are the most frequent methods of extracorporeal ellimination methods used for lowering the LDL cholesterol in patients with familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH). In case of failure of conservative therapy (represented by pharmacotherapy and/or dietary regime) these methods reprensent the effective and accessible solution for the clinical status characterized by high morbidity and mortality as well. The lipid components are the most frequent observed markers for the effeciveness of intervention. However, immunity with its effector molecules plays also essential role and there is suppose, that could also reflect the state and progress of atherosclerosis in FH patients. The aim of this thesis was to evaluate the levels of selected immunological markers (plasmatic glykoprotein α-2-macroglobulin, IL-10, soluble endoglin, soluble apoptotic factor sAPO-Fas and soluble form of adhesive P-selectin) and their changes after LDL-apheresis and haemorheopheresis employing enzyme immunoanalysis and immuno nephelometry. Totally, 12 patients were involved in this study, 3 were treated by haemorheopheresis, the rest 9 received LDL-apheresis. As a results, significant decreases in serum levels of α-2- macroglobulin, soluble endoglin and sAPO-1/Fas were recorded. Observed changes of...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:296615 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Creators | Svrčková, Ellen |
| Contributors | Andrýs, Ctirad, Krejsek, Jan |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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