Does ischemia-modified albumin add prognostic value to the Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction risk score in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction treated with primary angioplasty?
IMA levels obtained at admission are a powerful indicator of short-term mortality in STEMI patients treated with primary PCI, but do not seem to be a marker that adds prognostic information to the validated STEMI TIMI risk score.
Approximately 1 of 8 NAFLD patients coming to a Greek tertiary liver center has normal BMI. On liver biopsy, normal BMI patients often have nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and histologic liver lesions of similar severity to the overweight or obese patients.