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Evaluation of Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid Cytokines as Biomarkers for Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis in At-Risk Patients

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Resumo:Background: Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) is an infection that primarily affects immunocompromised hosts, including hematological patients and stem-cell transplant recipients. The diagnosis of IPA remains challenging, making desirable the availability of new specific biomarkers. High-throughput methods now allow us to interrogate the immune system for multiple markers of inflammation with enhanced resolution.Methods: To determine whether a signature of alveolar cytokines could be associated with the development of IPA and used as a diagnostic biomarker, we performed a nested case-control study involving 113 patients at-risk.Results: Among the 32 analytes tested, IL-beta, IL-6, IL-8, IL-17A, IL-23, and TNF a were significantly increased among patients with IPA, defining two clusters able to accurately differentiate cases of infection from controls. Genetic variants previously reported to confer increased risk of IPA compromised the production of specific cytokines and impaired their discriminatory potential toward infection. Collectively, our data indicated that IL-8 was the best performing cytokine, with alveolar levels >= 904 pg/mL predicting IPA with elevated sensitivity (90%), specificity (73%), and negative predictive value (88%).Conclusions: These findings highlight the existence of a specific profile of alveolar cytokines, with IL-8 being the dominant discriminator, whichmight be useful in supporting current diagnostic approaches for IPA.
Autores principais:Gonçalves, Samuel Martins
Outros Autores:Lagrou, Katrien; Rodrigues, Claudia S.; Campos, Claudia F.; Bernal-Martinez, Leticia; Rodrigues, Fernando José dos Santos; Silvestre, Ricardo Jorge Leal; Alcazar-Fuoli, Laura; Maertens, Johan A.; Cunha, Cristina; Carvalho, Agostinho
Assunto:Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis Biomarkers Cytokines/chemokines Bronchoalveolar lavage Fungal diagnostics
Ano:2017
País:Portugal
Tipo de documento:artigo
Tipo de acesso:acesso aberto
Instituição associada:Universidade do Minho
Idioma:inglês
Origem:RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho

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