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Pol. Merkur. Lekarski · Jun 2010
Review[Physiological functions of L-ornithine and L-aspartate in the body and the efficacy of administration of L-ornithine-L-aspartate in conditions of relative deficiency].
L-ornithine-L-aspartate (LOLA) is a stable salt of two natural nonessential L-amino acids: ornithine and aspartic acid. It is formulated and marketed in low and high doses. Low doses are used as a food supplement and high doses (above 5 g) as a medicinal product to lower blood ammonia concentration and to eliminate symptoms of hepatic encephalopathy associated with liver cirrhosis. ⋯ In health and with proper diet, L-ornithine and L-aspartate are synthesized de novo in sufficient quantities, but in the states of disease, tissue damage, organ insufficiency, excessive metabolic demand, growth, pregnancy, or urea cycle enzyme deficiencies, these amino acids need to be supplemented with the food. The review of available data indicate that there is direct and indirect (resulting from physiology) scientific rationale for dietary use of LOLA, depending on an individual's physiological, metabolic or pathological conditions. In conditional ornithine deficiency, daily supplementation with LOLA at doses about 1 g/day is safe and, as demonstrated in vitro, should be sufficient to saturate tissue ornithine concentration to prevent postprandial hyperammonemia and to stimulate tissue regeneration.
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Pol. Merkur. Lekarski · Jun 2010
[Evaluation of dynamic cardiac troponin I concentrations and C-reactive protein in the monitoring of myocardial infarction in patients with repeated myocardial infarction].
Significant progress in diagnosis and treatment of heart attack led European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and American College of Cardiology (ACC) to develop in 2007 a document on contemporary criteria for diagnosis of fresh myocardial infarction. In the case of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with initially normal serum concentrations of biomarkers troponin increase above the 99th percentile upper limit of the reference points to the occurrence of myocardial necrosis dislodgement. Conventionally assumed that the increased levels of biomarkers of value in excess of 3 x 99th percentile upper reference requires identification of MI in conjunction with PCI. ⋯ The concentration of cardiac troponin I in the first hours of the course of myocardial infarction (between 6 and 9 h) in patients who have made a second heart attack tends to lower its growth levels compared to people with first MI. It can be assumed that the myocardial inflammatory response to repeated defense system reduces the area of necrosis and less ejection from the troponin myocardial cells. In patients who underwent myocardial infarction in the past and were subjected to selective coronary angiography, and its treatment by PCI, troponin I, did not exceed three times the 99th percentile of the healthy population, suggesting that the proper emergency procedures cardiac surgeons performing PCI.