title: Roles of the Oxidative Stress and ADMA in the Development of Deep Venous Thrombosis.
abstract: Venous thromboembolism has multifactorial origin and occurs in the context of complex interactions between environmental and genetic predisposing factors. Oxidative stress plays an important role in the physiopathology of venous thrombosis. Current study examined the role of oxidative stress and asymmetric dimethylarginine in the development of DVT with the parameters such as serum malondialdehyde (MDA), glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px), catalase, ADMA, homocysteine, folic acid, vitamin B6, and vitamin B12 levels. Serum MDA levels were found significantly (P < 0.005) high in patients with DVT compared with control group. Additionally, serum B6 levels were found significantly (P < 0.009) low in patients with DVT compared with healthy volunteers. There were no significant differences between the groups in terms of the other parameters (P > 0.05). This study showed that patients with DVT have increased oxidative stress compared with the healthy volunteers whereas there was no significant difference between the groups in terms of serum ADMA levels. Thus serum ADMA levels seemed to be not related with development of DVT.
authors.affiliation: School of Health, Bozok University, 66200 Yozgat, Turkey.
authors.forename: Meral
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ekim
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Yuzuncu Yil University Medical Faculty, 65080Van, Turkey.
authors.forename: M Ramazan
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Sekeroglu
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Yuzuncu Yil University Medical Faculty, 65080Van, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ragıp
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Balahoroglu
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Biology, Yuzuncu Yil University Medical Faculty, 65080 Van, Turkey.
authors.forename: Halil
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ozkol
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Bozok University Medical Faculty, 66200 Yozgat, Turkey.
authors.forename: Hasan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ekim