caa a22 4500 37887926X CHVBK 20180305123428.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20030721xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/CCLM.2003.132 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/CCLM.2003.132 Clerico Aldo The Increasing Impact of Laboratory Medicine on Clinical Cardiology [Elektronische Daten] [Aldo Clerico] The practice of cardiology continues to evolve along with a better understanding of the pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease and the development of new therapeutic procedures. Consequently, new demands are being made on the in vitro diagnostics industry to improve the performance of existing cardiac markers and to develop novel markers for new cardiac disease indications. Indeed, in the last 20 years there has been a progressive increase in new laboratory tests for markers of cardiac diseases. Several highly sensitive and/or specific assays for the detection of myocardial ischemic damage as well as some immunoassays for cardiac natriuretic hormones, now considered a reliable marker of myocardial function, have become commercially available. In parallel, a growing number of some novel risk factors, which can be assessed and monitored by laboratory methods, have been added to the classical risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Finally, the recent explosion of genetic analysis may soon place at the clinical cardiologist's disposal many laboratory tests for defining the diagnosis at the molecular level, assessing new risk factors, and better targeting the pharmaceutical approaches in patients with cardiovascular disease. In the present article, after a brief description of the analytical tests included in these four groups, each group's impact on clinical cardiology is discussed in detail. Copyright © 2003 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG Medical equipment & techniques nationallicence Medical diagnosis nationallicence Diseases & disorders nationallicence Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine Walter de Gruyter 41/7(2003-07-21), 871-883 1434-6621 41:7<871 2003 41 cclm https://doi.org/10.1515/CCLM.2003.132 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/CCLM.2003.132 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Clerico Aldo NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine Walter de Gruyter 41/7(2003-07-21), 871-883 1434-6621 41:7<871 2003 41 cclm CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter