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USE OF MIRCO-RNAS CIRCULATING IN THE BLOOD SERUM OR BLOOD PLASMA FOR IDENTIFYING PATIENTS REQUIRING A BIOPSY AND AS A MARKER FOR THE DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF INDIVIDUAL NON-ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHIES OR STORAGE DISEASES

Publication number: 20180251837

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of certain micro-RNAs circulating in the blood serum or blood plasma in the form of diagnostic profiles as a marker in an in vitro method for distinguishing between patients for which a myocardial biopsy is necessary for the diagnostic identification of a heart muscle disease and patients for which myocardial biopsy is not necessary, and for the optional differential diagnosis of individual non-ischemic cardiomyopathies or storage diseases affecting the heart.

Type: Application

Filed: September 1, 2016

Publication date: September 6, 2018

Applicant: IKDT INSTITUT KARDIALE DIAGNOSTIK UND THERAPIE GMBH

Inventors: Heinz-Peter SCHULTHEISS, Dirk LASSNER, Maria ROHDE, Christine SIEGISMUND, Max KOHLENBERG