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Mynster Kronborg T, Webel H, O'Connell MB, Danielsen KV, Hobolth L, Møller S, Jensen RT, Bendtsen F, Hansen T, Rasmussen S, Juel HB, Kimer N. Markers of inflammation predict survival in newly diagnosed cirrhosis: a prospective registry study. Sci Rep 2023; 13:20039. [PMID: 37973887 PMCID: PMC10654496 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-47384-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2023] [Accepted: 11/13/2023] [Indexed: 11/19/2023] Open
Abstract
The inflammatory activity in cirrhosis is often pronounced and related to episodes of decompensation. Systemic markers of inflammation may contain prognostic information, and we investigated their possible correlation with admissions and mortality among patients with newly diagnosed liver cirrhosis. We collected plasma samples from 149 patients with newly diagnosed (within the past 6 months) cirrhosis, and registered deaths and hospital admissions within 180 days. Ninety-two inflammatory markers were quantified and correlated with clinical variables, mortality, and admissions. Prediction models were calculated by logistic regression. We compared the disease courses of our cohort with a validation cohort of 86 patients with cirrhosis. Twenty of 92 markers of inflammation correlated significantly with mortality within 180 days (q-values of 0.00-0.044), whereas we found no significant correlations with liver-related admissions. The logistic regression models yielded AUROCs of 0.73 to 0.79 for mortality and 0.61 to 0.73 for liver-related admissions, based on a variety of modalities (clinical variables, inflammatory markers, clinical scores, or combinations thereof). The models performed moderately well in the validation cohort and were better able to predict mortality than liver-related admissions. In conclusion, markers of inflammation can be used to predict 180-day mortality in patients with newly diagnosed cirrhosis. Prediction models for newly diagnosed cirrhotic patients need further validation before implementation in clinical practice.Trial registration: NCT04422223 (and NCT03443934 for the validation cohort), and Scientific Ethics Committee No.: H-19024348.
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Affiliation(s)
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Protein Research, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Gastro Unit, Medical Division, Hvidovre University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Hvidovre Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Metabolic Research, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Gastro Unit, Medical Division, Hvidovre University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Metabolic Research, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Protein Research, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark
- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Genomic Mechanisms of Disease, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, USA
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Metabolic Research, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Gastro Unit, Medical Division, Hvidovre University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark
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Özdirik B, Maibier M, Scherf M, Nicklaus JM, Frohme J, Puengel T, Meyer zum Büschenfelde D, Tacke F, Mueller T, Sigal M. Soluble Urokinase Plasminogen Activator Receptor Levels Are Associated with Severity of Fibrosis in Patients with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis. J Clin Med 2022; 11:jcm11092479. [PMID: 35566603 PMCID: PMC9105770 DOI: 10.3390/jcm11092479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2022] [Revised: 04/23/2022] [Accepted: 04/26/2022] [Indexed: 12/07/2022] Open
Abstract
The soluble urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) has evolved as a useful biomarker for different entities of chronic liver disease. However, its role in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is obscure. We analyzed plasma levels of suPAR in 84 patients with PSC and compared them to 68 patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) without PSC and to 40 healthy controls. Results are correlated with clinical records. suPAR concentrations were elevated in patients with PSC compared to patients with IBD only and to healthy controls (p < 0.001). Elevated suPAR levels were associated with the presence of liver cirrhosis (p < 0.001) and signs of portal hypertension (p < 0.001). suPAR revealed a high accuracy for the discrimination of the presence of liver cirrhosis comparable to previously validated noninvasive fibrosis markers (area under the curve (AUC) 0.802 (95%CI: 0.702−0.902)). Further, we demonstrated that suPAR levels may indicate the presence of acute cholangitis episodes (p < 0.001). Finally, despite the high proportion of PSC patients with IBD, presence of IBD and its disease activity did not influence circulating suPAR levels. suPAR represents a previously unrecognized biomarker for diagnosis and liver cirrhosis detection in patients with PSC. However, it does not appear to be confounded by intestinal inflammation in the context of IBD.
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- Burcin Özdirik
- Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Campus Virchow Klinikum (CVK) and Campus Charité Mitte (CCM), Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany; (M.M.); (M.S.); (J.M.N.); (J.F.); (T.P.); (F.T.); (T.M.); (M.S.)
- Berlin Institute of Health, 10178 Berlin, Germany
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +49-30-450-656-004; Fax: +49-30-450-553-902
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- Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Campus Virchow Klinikum (CVK) and Campus Charité Mitte (CCM), Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany; (M.M.); (M.S.); (J.M.N.); (J.F.); (T.P.); (F.T.); (T.M.); (M.S.)
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- Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Campus Virchow Klinikum (CVK) and Campus Charité Mitte (CCM), Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany; (M.M.); (M.S.); (J.M.N.); (J.F.); (T.P.); (F.T.); (T.M.); (M.S.)
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- Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Campus Virchow Klinikum (CVK) and Campus Charité Mitte (CCM), Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany; (M.M.); (M.S.); (J.M.N.); (J.F.); (T.P.); (F.T.); (T.M.); (M.S.)
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- Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Campus Virchow Klinikum (CVK) and Campus Charité Mitte (CCM), Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany; (M.M.); (M.S.); (J.M.N.); (J.F.); (T.P.); (F.T.); (T.M.); (M.S.)
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- Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Campus Virchow Klinikum (CVK) and Campus Charité Mitte (CCM), Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany; (M.M.); (M.S.); (J.M.N.); (J.F.); (T.P.); (F.T.); (T.M.); (M.S.)
- Berlin Institute of Health, 10178 Berlin, Germany
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- Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry, 13353 Berlin, Germany;
- Labor Berlin—Charité Vivantes GmbH, 13353 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Campus Virchow Klinikum (CVK) and Campus Charité Mitte (CCM), Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany; (M.M.); (M.S.); (J.M.N.); (J.F.); (T.P.); (F.T.); (T.M.); (M.S.)
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- Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Campus Virchow Klinikum (CVK) and Campus Charité Mitte (CCM), Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany; (M.M.); (M.S.); (J.M.N.); (J.F.); (T.P.); (F.T.); (T.M.); (M.S.)
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- Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Campus Virchow Klinikum (CVK) and Campus Charité Mitte (CCM), Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany; (M.M.); (M.S.); (J.M.N.); (J.F.); (T.P.); (F.T.); (T.M.); (M.S.)
- Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB), Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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