Ceramide Level as Apredictor of Outcomes in Patients of Anterior Myocardial Infarction Undergoing Primary Coronary Intervention

Ceramides are a family of lipid molecules that are found in high concentrations within cell membranes and play a key role in a variety of physiological functions including apoptosis, cell growth, cell adhesion and plasma membrane integrity maintenance.(1)

All tissues can synthesize ceramides de novo from saturated fats and sphingosine.(2) the ( LDL ) Present in atherosclerotic plaque is rich in ceramide and contain 10 - 50 fold higher content of ceramide when compared with plasma LDL .(3)

Ceramide (d18:1/16:0) is associated with the fraction of necrotic core tissue and lipid core burden in coronary atherosclerosis.(4) Previous clinical research found that circulating ceramides are elevated in patients with hypertension,(5) obesity (6 - 7) and type II diabetes mellitus.

Previous clinical research found that elevated ceramide plasma concentrations are associated with coronary plaque vulnerability evaluated by intravascular ultrasound .

virtual Recent studies showed targeted profiling of ceramides predicted short-term and long-term major adverse cardiac events.