Varakin Iu Ia, Oshchepkova E V, Skvortsov A V, Adamova I Iu, Dzhibladze D N, Arabidze G G, Pokrovskiĭ S N
Ter Arkh. 1993;65(3):54-6.
It is established that atherosclerotic patients with impaired major arteries of the head have high concentration of blood lipoprotein (a) following ischemic disorder of cerebral circulation. Irrespectively of the clinical picture, atherosclerosis of the major head arteries correlated in severity with blood levels of lipoprotein (a). It is suggested that lipoprotein (a) can serve an essential biochemical marker of major head arteries atherosclerosis.
