Systemic cytokines, chemokines and growth factors reveal specific and shared immunological characteristics in infectious cardiomyopathies.

ABSTRACT: Heart disease is a major cause of death worldwide. Chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy (CCC) caused by infection with Trypanosoma cruzi leading to high mortality in adults, and rheumatic heart disease (RHD), resulting from infection by Streptococcus pyogenes affecting mainly children and young adults, are amongst the deadliest heart diseases in low-middle income countries. Despite distinct etiology, the pathology associated with both diseases is a consequence of inflammation. Here we compare systemic immune profile in patients with these cardiopathies, to identify particular and common characteristics in these infectious heart diseases. We evaluated the expression of 27 soluble factors, employing single and multivariate analysis combined with machine-learning approaches. We observed that, while

SUBMITTER: Neves EGA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8546740 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature