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- Title
Plasma Prohepcidin as a Negative Acute Phase Reactant after Large Cardiac Surgery with a Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest.
- Authors
Maruna, P.; Lindner, J.; Kunštýr, J.; Plocová, K.; Hubácek, J.
- Abstract
Hepcidin is a key regulator of iron metabolism and a mediator of anemia in inflammation. Recent in vitro studies recognized prohepcidin as a type II acute phase protein regulating via interleukin-6. The aim of the present study was to investigate the time course of plasma prohepcidin after a large cardiac surgery in relation to IL-6 and other inflammatory parameters. Patients with chronic thromboembolic hypertension (n=22, males/females 14/8, age 51.9±10.2 years) underwent pulmonary endarterectomy using cardiopulmonary bypass and deep hypothermic circulatory arrest were included into study. Arterial concentrations of prohepcidin, IL-1β, IL-6, IL-8, tumor necrosis factor-α, and C-reactive protein were measured before/after sternotomy, after circulatory arrest, after separation from bypass, and then 12, 18, 24, 36, 48 h and 72 h after the separation from bypass. Hemodynamic parameters, hematocrit and markers of iron metabolism were followed up. Pulmonary endarterectomy induced a 48 % fall in plasma prohepcidin; minimal concentrations were detected after separation from cardiopulmonary bypass. Prohepcidin decline correlated with an extracorporeal circulation time (p<0.01), while elevated IL-6 levels were inversely associated with duration of prohepcidin decline. Postoperative prohepcidin did not correlate with markers of iron metabolism or hemoglobin concentrations within a 72-h period after separation from CPB. Prohepcidin showed itself as a negative acute phase reactant during systemic inflammatory response syndrome associated with a cardiac surgery. Results indicate that the evolution of prohepcidin in postoperative period implies the antagonism of stimulatory effect of IL-6 and contraregulatory factors inhibiting prohepcidin synthesis or increasing prohepcidin clearance.
- Subjects
ACUTE phase proteins; CARDIAC surgery; HYPERTENSION; THERAPEUTICS; CARDIAC arrest prevention; SURGICAL complications; CORONARY artery bypass; INTERLEUKIN-6; IRON metabolism
- Publication
Physiological Research, 2009, Vol 58, Issue 6, p827
- ISSN
0862-8408
- Publication type
Article