TY - BOOK AU - Mahmoud Hanfy Kappary Abdelmeged AU - Mohamed Shehata Abdallah , AU - Waleed Abdelsalam Ammar , AU - Yasser Kamel Baghdady , TI - Matrix metalloproteinases and inflammatory markers in coronary artery ectasia their relationship to severity of coronary artery ectasia / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mahmoud Hanfy Kappary Abdelmeged , KW - Cap KW - Cas KW - Coronary artery N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Cardiology; Issued also as CD N2 - Although underlying mechanisms of coronary artery ectasia ( CAE ) are clearly unknown , destruction of extracellular matrix may be responsible for the ectasia formation . Thus , we investigated the role of matrix metalloproteinases ( MMP - 9 ) and inflammatory markers ( hs - CRP ) This study consisted of 30 consecutive CAE patients , 30 obstructive coronary artery disease ( CAD ) patients and 20 controls with normal coronary arteries undergoing cardiac catheterization ER -