Endothelial Microparticles and the Diagnosis of the Vasculitides

Paul A BROGAN, Michael J DILLON
2004 Internal medicine (Tokyo. 1992)  
Recently there has been considerable interest in a novel surrogate marker of endothelial injury, endothelial microparticles (EMP), in a number of diseases characterised by endothelial injury. This review examines the data relating to EMP in human disease states, and examines the potential for EMP to provide a window onto the activated endothelium in primary systemic vasculitides. The utility of EMP for the diagnosis and monitoring of active vasculitis is discussed.
doi:10.2169/internalmedicine.43.1115 pmid:15645643 fatcat:7e42rrd7rzfzpdnrjxid3arqnu