Translational Research and Innovation in Human and Health Science
- 19 January 2018
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Annals of Medicine
- Vol. 50 (sup1), S1-S9
- https://doi.org/10.1080/07853890.2018.1427452
Abstract
Erythrocyte aggregation is an indicator of cardiovascular risk, which is influenced by plasma fibrinogen concentration. Fibrinogen levels are elevated during cardiovascular diseases. Our main goals were to understand how fibrinogen-erythrocyte binding influences erythrocyte aggregation and how it constitutes a cardiovascular risk factor in essential arterial hypertension (EAH) and chronic heart failure (CHF). Fibrinogen-erythrocyte and erythrocyte-erythrocyte adhesion measurements were conducted by atomic force microscopy (AFM)-based force spectroscopy. Upon increasing fibrinogen concentration, there was an increase in the work and force necessary for cell-cell detachment, both for healthy donors and EAH patients. Nevertheless, higher values were obtained for the EAH patients at each fibrinogen concentration. Fibrinogen-erythrocyte (un)binding forces were higher in EAH and CHF patients, when compared with the control group, despite a lower binding frequency. Ischemic CHF patients showed increased binding forces compared to non-ischemic patients. Erythrocyte deformability (assessed as elongation index) results show that heart failure patients presented higher erythrocyte deformability than the control group at lower shear stresses, and lower deformability at higher shear stresses. This indicates that patients' erythrocytes are more deformable than those from healthy donors in blood vessels with larger internal diameters; however, in smaller-diameter vessels the opposite trend exists. Finally, a 12-month clinical follow-up shows that CHF patients with higher fibrinogen-erythrocyte binding forces, probed by AFM at the beginning of the assessment, had a significantly higher probability of being hospitalized due to cardiovascular complications on the subsequent year. Our results show that AFM can be a promising tool for clinical prognosis, pinpointing those patients with increased risk for cardiovascular diseases.This publication has 30 references indexed in Scilit:
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