Emergency Medicine Department, Namık Kemal University Medicine Faculty, Tekirdağ, Turkey.
Medical Biochemistry Department, Namık Kemal University Medicine Faculty, Tekirdağ, Turkey.
BMC Pulm Med. 2022 Sep 18;22(1):351. doi: 10.1186/s12890-022-02156-y.
This study aims to investigate the diagnostic accuracy of adropin as a biomarker to exclude the diagnosis of acute pulmonary embolism (PE).
Patients admitted to the emergency department of a tertiary health centre between August 2019 and August 2020 and diagnosed with PE were included in this prospective cohort study. The amount of serum adropin was determined in patients with (PE) and compared with that of healthy volunteers. Receiver operating characteristic analysis was performed with the obtained data, and the area under the curve (AUC) with a 95% confidence interval was determined. The parameters of diagnostic accuracy for PE were determined.
A total of 57 participants were included in the study (28 controls and 29 PE patients). The mean adropin level in the PE group was 187.33 ± 62.40 pg/ml, which was significantly lower than that in the control group (524.06 ± 421.68 pg/ml) (p < 0.001). When the optimal adropin cut-off value was 213.78 pg/ml, the likelihood ratio of the adropin test was 3.4, and the sensitivity of the adropin test at this value was 82% with specificity of 75% (95% CI; AUC: 0.821).
Our results suggest that adropin may be considered for further study as a candidate marker for the exclusion of the diagnosis of PE. However, more research is required to verify and support the generalizability of our study results.
本研究旨在探讨 adropin 作为一种生物标志物用于排除急性肺栓塞(PE)诊断的准确性。
本前瞻性队列研究纳入了 2019 年 8 月至 2020 年 8 月期间在三级保健中心急诊科就诊并诊断为 PE 的患者。测定患者血清 adropin 含量,并与健康志愿者进行比较。对获得的数据进行受试者工作特征(ROC)分析,确定曲线下面积(AUC)及其 95%置信区间。确定用于诊断 PE 的诊断准确性参数。
共纳入 57 名患者(对照组 28 例,PE 组 29 例)。PE 组 adropin 水平的平均值为 187.33±62.40pg/ml,明显低于对照组(524.06±421.68pg/ml)(p<0.001)。当最佳 adropin 截断值为 213.78pg/ml 时,adropin 检验的似然比为 3.4,此时 adropin 检验的敏感性为 82%,特异性为 75%(95%CI;AUC:0.821)。
我们的研究结果表明,adropin 可进一步作为排除 PE 诊断的候选标志物进行研究。但是,需要更多的研究来验证和支持我们研究结果的普遍性。