OBJECTIVE To evaluate serum vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) as a prognostic factor in patients with recurrent and/or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck treated with metronomic (weekly) paclitaxel. DESIGN Before-and-after trial. PATIENTS A total of 33 consecutive patients were enrolled. Patients with recurrent and/or metastatic cancer of the head and neck refra...

Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a potent angiogenic and mitogenic peptide, which also induces several mediators that may play a role in HIV induced CNS damage. VEGF levels were determined in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and serum samples from patients with (n = 8) and without (n = 19) directly HIV associated CNS disorders and HIV negative control patients (n = 18). VEGF serum but not ...

pleural effusions, as Dr. Kiropoulos mentioned. Momi et al2 and Hamed et al3 measured VEGF levels both in the serum and pleural fluid of tuberculous pleurisy patients. They found elevated VEGF levels both in the serum and pleural fluid of tuberculous pleurisy patients compared with congestive heart failure patients. In congestive heart failure patients, both of the studies reported higher VEGF ...

We read with great interest the article by Alatas and coworkers (June 2004),1 who showed that serum vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) levels were increased in patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis, compared to patients with inactive pulmonary tuberculosis and control subjects. They also showed that serum VEGF levels were statistically different before and after treatment in 10 pat...

Fetuin-A was considered to be involved in pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes. On the other hand, higher vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression is associated with diabetes and its vascular complications, but the mechanisms leading to higher VEGF levels are still not clear. To the best of our knowledge, there are no data to show the associations between fetuin-A and VEGF in patients wi...

BACKGROUND Diabetic retinopathy is a serious microvascular disorder of the retina. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression, induced by high glucose levels and hypoxia, is a main feature in retinopathy. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between vitreous and serum VEGF levels and control of diabetes and microalbuminuria in patients with proliferative diabetic ret...

e22031 Background: Recent studies have shown that VEGF expression not in tissues but in serum sample is correlated with tumor vascularity, and high serum VEGF levels could predict poor prognosis in cancer patients. However there are limited data regarding the clinical and prognostic significance of serum VEGF levels per platelet count in advanced gastric cancer. In this study, we conducted a st...

Increased levels of systemic vascular endothelial growth factors (VEGFs) in patients with diabetes are associated with increased risk of microvessel disease. On the other hand, low VEGF levels after intravitreal antibody application may be associated with acute cardiovascular complications and treatment failure. Individual levels of systemic VEGF vary in a wide range depending on analytical met...

OBJECTIVE Growing evidence suggests that angiogenesis might represent a new pathogenic mechanism involved in the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Among angiogenic cytokines, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) levels in AD patients have been evaluated, but the results are controversial among studies. We investigated serum levels of VEGF in AD patients with depression, AD patients ...

background: oral lichen planus is a chronic inflammatory disease with a poorly understood etiology. the role of angiogenesis in the development of different chronic inflammatory diseases is of great concern. vascular endothelial growth factor (vegf) is an important regulator of angiogenesis. we aimed to evaluate the serum level of vegf in patients with oral lichen planus compared with normal in...