Early and late determinants of C-reactive protein release in patients with acute coronary syndrome

Increased levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) could be detected in subjects with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Several factors, atherosclerosis, coronary flow impairment, myocardial necrosis, each one acting during a different, earlier or later, phase of ACS, are supposed to be involved in CRP release in case of ACS. Role and relevance of each factor, not mutually exclusive, still need to be comparatively evaluated but a cooperative synergism could be presumably hypothesized.