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The treatment and early outcome of patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI) have dramatically improved the past decades, but the incidence of left ventricular (LV) dysfunction post-MI remains high. Peripheral blood RNAs reflect pathophysiological changes during acute MI and the inflammatory process. Therefore, these RNAs are promising new markers to molecularly phenotype patients and improve the early identification of patients at risk of subsequent LV dysfunction. We here discuss the coding and long non-coding RNAs that can be measured in peripheral blood of patients with acute MI and list the advantages and limitations for implementation in clinical practice. Although some studies provide preliminary evidence of their diagnostic and prognostic potential, the use of these makers has not yet been implemented in clinical practice. The added value of RNAs to improve treatment and outcome remains to be determined in larger clinical studies. International consortia are now catalyzing renewed efforts to investigate novel RNAs that may improve post-MI outcome in a precision-medicine approach.
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Vanhaverbeke, M., Veltman, D., Janssens, S. et al. Peripheral Blood RNAs and Left Ventricular Dysfunction after Myocardial Infarction: Towards Translation into Clinical Practice. J. of Cardiovasc. Trans. Res. 14, 213–221 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12265-020-10048-x
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