Maternal serum fatty acid binding protein-4 level is upregulated in fetal growth restriction with abnormal Doppler flow patterns.

Purpose: This study aimed to determine fatty acid binding protein-4 (FABP-4) concentrations in maternal serum of fetal growth restriction (FGR) pregnancies and controls of normal pregnancies. Furthermore, we hypothesized that the alterations in FABP-4 levels might correlate with FGR severity.

Methods: We performed this prospective case-control study with 83 pregnant women.

Soluble TNF-Like Weak Inducer of Apoptosis as a New Marker in Preeclampsia: A Pilot Clinical Study.

Introduction: All findings of preeclampsia appear as the clinical consequences of diffuse endothelial dysfunction. Soluble tumor necrosis factor-like weak inducer of apoptosis (sTWEAK) was recently introduced as a TNF related cytokine in various inflammatory and noninflammatory disorders. sTWEAK was found to be related to endothelial dysfunction in patients with chronic kidney disease.