title: Cell-derived microvesicles in cardiovascular diseases and antiplatelet therapy monitoring - A lesson for future trials? Current evidence, recent progresses and perspectives of clinical application.
abstract: Circulating cell-derived microvesicles (MV) represent a subject of increasing interest in recent years as potential effectors in thrombosis, inflammation and vascular injury. Although several studies demonstrated an association between MV plasma concentrations and clinical manifestations of atherosclerosis as well as a clear effect of cardiovascular pharmacotherapy on MV formation pattern, the application of this promising biomarkers in clinical cardiology has been hindered so far due to heterogeneity of the hitherto studies employing non-standardized methodologies. Recently great progresses have been done and international initiatives were started to unify the pre-analytical and analytical procedures, improve the comparison of measurements between the laboratories and increase detector sensitivity of flow cytometry - a golden standard for MV assessment. Likewise, the concept of a "therapeutic window" of P2Y12 inhibitor therapy was introduced, as the prognostic significance of bleeding consequences is equally important with that of ischemic events, particularly with the expanding use of more potent P2Y12 inhibitors. In this review we summarize currently available studies on circulating MV in terms of cardiovascular diagnosis, risk stratification and influence of antiplatelet agents on the MV release to postulate possible future role of MV as supplementary biomarker in monitoring of individual response to antiplatelet therapy. Methodological pitfalls faced in the previous studies and obstacles that need to be addressed before further trials and translation of MV-based assays into clinical practice were defined.
authors: Medical University of Warsaw, 1st Department of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland. Electronic address: mariusz.tomaniak@interia.pl.
authors: Mariusz
authors: M
authors: Tomaniak
authors: Medical University of Warsaw, 1st Department of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland.
authors: Aleksandra
authors: A
authors: Gąsecka
authors: Medical University of Warsaw, 1st Department of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland.
authors: Krzysztof J
authors: KJ
authors: Filipiak
mesh_terms: D015415:Biomarkers / Q000097:blood; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000097:blood* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D055252:Cell-Derived Microparticles / Q000378:metabolism*; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D016903:Drug Monitoring / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D005544:Forecasting; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D010975:Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D012307:Risk Factors
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers; D010975:Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors
keywords: Antiplatelet agents; Biomarkers; Cardiovascular diseases; Microparticles; Microvesicles; Pharmacotherapy individualization