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Cardiac magnetic resonance and galectin-3 level as predictors of prognostic outcomes for non-ischemic cardiomyopathy patients

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Cardiac magnetic resonance and galectin-3 level as predictors of prognostic outcomes for non-ischemic cardiomyopathy patients
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The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging, August 2016
DOI 10.1007/s10554-016-0958-1
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Da-Jun Hu, Jing Xu, Wei Du, Jian-Xin Zhang, Min Zhong, Ya-Nan Zhou

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This study was aimed at determining whether late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) in conjunction with Galectin-3 (Gal-3) level offered more precise prognosis of non-ischemic cardiomyopathy (NICM) in comparison to LGE alone. Results of LGE and Gal-3 expression in 192 patients with NICM, including 85 subjects with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and 107 with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), were examined. As suggested by the characteristics of LGE and Gal-3 levels, patients were divided into four groups: LGE positive + low Gal-3 (n = 10 for DCM, n = 15 for HCM), LGE positive + high Gal-3 (n = 25 for DCM, n = 51 for HCM), LGE negative + low Gal-3 (n = 32 for DCM, n = 29 for HCM), LGE negative + high Gal-3 (n = 18 for DCM, n = 12 for HCM). Primary endpoints over the follow-up period included major adverse cardiac events (MACEs). Kaplan-Meier survival analysis and univariate Cox proportional hazard models were used to analyze the survival status of patients with NICM. The optimal cut-off value of Gal-3 level for two types of NICM was determined by receiver operating characteristic analysis (13.38 U/L for DCM and 14.40 U/L for HCM). The combination of LGE and Gal-3 levels offered a more significant prognostic value than using LGE alone for both DCM and HCM (DCM P = 0.001 < 0.012; HCM P = 0.037 < 0.040). Moreover, the Cox proportional hazard model suggested that both LGE status [Hazard ratio (HR) = 2.62, P = 0.017] and Gal-3 level (HR = 1.16, P = 0.013) were significant predictors of MACEs in DCM, while they did not appear to have significant prognostic values for HCM (P = 0.06 and 0.64). Furthermore, the multivariate analysis only confirmed LGE as an independent element in predicting prognosis of DCM (HR = 12.19, P = 0.026). In conclusion, LGE status was an independent indicator of DCM prognosis, yet the insignificant role of LGE in HCM prognosis could be limited by sample size.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Doctoral Student 5 19%
Student > Master 4 15%
Other 3 11%
Student > Bachelor 3 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 11%
Other 4 15%
Unknown 5 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 15 56%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 4%
Psychology 1 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 4%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 5 19%
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