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ReviewBiomedicines2021

Neutrophils as Regulators and Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Inflammation in the Context of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms.

Johannes Klopf, Christine Brostjan, Christoph Neumayer, Wolf Eilenberg

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Review in Biomedicines, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The role of neutrophils in the pathogenesis of abdominal aortic aneurysms.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2026
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  8. Myeloid Cells in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm.Current atherosclerosis reports · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Johannes KlopfDepartment of General Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, University Hospital Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0001-9283-5133
Christine BrostjanDepartment of General Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, University Hospital Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
Christoph NeumayerDepartment of General Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, University Hospital Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
Wolf EilenbergDepartment of General Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, University Hospital Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-9322-6193

Funding

Austrian Science Fund SFB project F 5409-B21Medical Scientific Fund of the Mayor of the City of Vienna project 15012
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neutrophils represent up to 70% of circulating leukocytes in healthy humans and combat infection mostly by phagocytosis, degranulation and NETosis. It has been reported that neutrophils are centrally involved in abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) pathogenesis. The natural course of AAA is growth and rupture, if left undiagnosed or untreated. The rupture of AAA has a very high mortality and is currently among the leading causes of death worldwide. The use of noninvasive cardiovascular imaging techniques for patient screening, surveillance and postoperative follow-up is well established and recommended by the current guidelines. Neutrophil-derived biomarkers may offer clinical value to the monitoring and prognosis of AAA patients, allowing for potential early therapeutic intervention. Numerous promising biomarkers have been studied. In this review, we discuss neutrophils and neutrophil-derived molecules as regulators and biomarkers of AAA, and our aim was to specifically highlight diagnostic and prognostic markers. Neutrophil-derived biomarkers may potentially, in the future, assist in determining AAA presence, predict size, expansion rate, rupture risk, and postoperative outcome once validated in highly warranted future prospective clinical studies.

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abdominal aortic aneurysmbiomarkerscardiovascular diseasesinflammationmatrix metalloproteinase (MMP)myeloperoxidaseneutrophil elastaseneutrophil extracellular traps (NETs)neutrophil granulesneutrophils

Identifiers

PMID34572424
PMCPMC8467789

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