Nowadays, one of the modalities in performing reperfusion in coronary artery disease is percutaneous coronary intervention. Before drug eluting stent era, the problem that occurs the most among interventional cardiologists is restenosis. After drug eluting stent era, restenosis can be reduced significantly. Unfortunately, it further develops another problem, that is called stent thrombosis. Me…
Background: Platelet activation plays an important role in plague rupture and thrombus formation. Activated platelets release CD40 ligand (sCD40L). It has coagulation and inflammation properties. Enhanced sCD40L activity has been found in acute mycocardial infarction, aspecially in ST-elevation myocardial infarction. The impact of this enhancement on the degree of myocardial damage remains unce…