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ABSTRACT: Background
Acute liver injury in patients with ARDS decreases survival but early stages may be easily missed due to the lack of sufficient biomarkers signalling its onset. Accordingly, we tested in ARDS patients the hypotheses that microRNA-122, the foremost liver-related microRNA (miR), 1) is an sensitive and specific early predictor for potential liver injury and 2) analysed its impact on 30-day-survival.Methods
We collected clinical data and analysed blood samples from 119 ARDS patients within the first 24 h of ICU admission and from 20 patients undergoing elective abdominal non-liver surgery serving as controls. Total circulating miR was isolated from serum and relative miR-122 expression was measured (using specific probes and spiked-in miR-54), as were liver function and 30-day survival. Acute liver injury was defined as a total bilirubin concentration???3.0 mg/dl, an ALT activity ?350 U/l, and an INR ?2.0.Results
30-day survival of the entire ARDS-cohort was 69% but differed between patients with normal liver function (77%) and acute liver injury (19% p?ConclusionsIncreased miR-122 serum expression is an early and independent risk factor for 30-day mortality in ARDS patients and potentially reveal an acute liver injury earlier than the conventional markers of liver cell integrity.
SUBMITTER: Rahmel T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6015662 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rahmel Tim T Rump Katharina K Adamzik Michael M Peters Jürgen J Frey Ulrich H UH
BMC anesthesiology 20180623 1
<h4>Background</h4>Acute liver injury in patients with ARDS decreases survival but early stages may be easily missed due to the lack of sufficient biomarkers signalling its onset. Accordingly, we tested in ARDS patients the hypotheses that microRNA-122, the foremost liver-related microRNA (miR), 1) is an sensitive and specific early predictor for potential liver injury and 2) analysed its impact on 30-day-survival.<h4>Methods</h4>We collected clinical data and analysed blood samples from 119 ARD ...[more]