High pentraxin-3 plasma levels associate with thrombocytopenia in acute Puumala hantavirus-induced nephropathia epidemica
- 7 September 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 31 (6), 957-963
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-011-1392-x
Abstract
Our aim was to investigate whether plasma levels of the long pentraxin-3 (PTX3) associate with the severity of Puumala hantavirus-induced nephropathia epidemica (NE). Sixty-one prospectively identified consecutively hospitalized NE patients were examined. Plasma PTX3, interleukin (IL)-6, terminal complement complex SC5b-9, complement component C3, C-reactive protein (CRP), creatinine, sodium, kynurenine, and tryptophan levels, as well as the blood cell count, were determined for up to five consecutive days after hospitalization. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis revealed that the maximum PTX3 level >101.6 ng/ml (high PTX3) showed a sensitivity of 71% and a specificity of 89% for detecting platelet level 9/l, with an area under the curve (AUC) value of 0.78 (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.63–0.94). High PTX3 level was also associated with several other variables reflecting the severity of the disease: patients with high PTX3 level had higher maximum blood leukocyte (16.1 vs. 9.7 × 109/l, p < 0.001), plasma IL-6 (16.9 vs. 9.0 pg/ml, p = 0.007), and creatinine (282 vs. 124 μmol/l, p = 0.007) levels than patients with low maximum PTX3 level. They also had longer hospital stays (8 vs. 5 days, p = 0.015) compared to patients with low PTX3 level. High plasma PTX3 levels are associated with thrombocytopenia and the overall severity of NE.Keywords
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