Luigi M Biasucci, Giovanna Liuzzo, Alessandra Ciervo, Andrea Petrucca, Maddalena Piro, Dominick J Angiolillo, Filippo Crea, Antonio Cassone, Attilio Maseri
BACKGROUND: Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are a family of proteins with immunogenic and proinflammatory properties. Human and Chlamydia pneumoniae (Cp) HSP60 were found in patients with stable coronary disease. METHODS AND RESULTS: We measured the levels of anti-Cp-HSP60 and anti-Cp immunoglobulin G (IgG) in 179 patients with unstable angina, 40 with acute myocardial infarction, and 40 with stable angina (SA), as well as 100 control subjects. Forty-one patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) were also studied at follow-up...
June 24, 2003: Circulation