title: Uric acid in the acute phase of ST elevation myocardial infarction submitted to primary PCI: its prognostic role and relation with inflammatory markers: a single center experience.
abstract: METHODS
  Scarce data are available on the prognostic role of uric acid (UA ) in patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). We aimed at assessing the relation between uric acid, measured on Intensive Cardiac Care Unit (ICCU) admission, and mortality at short term follow-up in 466 consecutive STEMI patients submitted to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), as well as its relation with inflammatory markers (C-reactive protein, CRP-fibrinogen, erythrocyte sedimentation rate ESR).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Higher UA were detectable in the 21.5%.. In-hospital mortality was higher in patients with elevated UA (p<0.01 O.R. (95% C.I.): 3.9 (1.5-10.2)). At backward stepwise regression analysis UA resulted an independent predictor for in-hospital mortality (OR 1.82, 95%CI 1.15-2.86; p=0.01).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our data strongly suggest that in the acute phase of STEMI patients submitted to PCI, uric acid holds a prognostic role for in-hospital mortality.
authors.forename: Chiara
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lazzeri
authors.forename: Serafina
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Valente
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chiostri
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sori
authors.forename: Pasquale
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bernardo
authors.forename: Gian Franco
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: Gensini
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D015415:Biomarkers / Q000097:blood*; D003422:Critical Care; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000097:blood / Q000276:immunology / Q000401:mortality; D011379:Prognosis; D014527:Uric Acid / Q000097:blood*
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers; D014527:Uric Acid