Clinical & Experimental Cardiology
Open Access

Abstract

Specific, Robust, Reproducible: The Hunt for the Ideal Biomarker

Virginija Jazbutyte

Identification of robust and specific biochemical/ molecular markers of the cardiovascular disease is one of the biggest challenges in the modern cardiology. Ideally, cardiac markers should be reliable, easy to detect, stable and cost-effective. The results of cardiac marker measurements together with standard diagnostic approaches should provide precise information about the cardiovascular pathology and, ideally, should help to assess the severity of the disease.