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Maria Stella Graziani

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Martina Zaninotto

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Giuseppe Agosta

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ISSN print: 0393 – 0564
ISSN digital: 0392- 7091



BC: Articoli scritti da A. Gabutti

Analytical and clinical evaluation of the chemiluminescent microparticle immunoassay for galectin-3 determination
<p>This study tested if the chemiluminescent microparticle immunoassay (CMIA) method on the Architect platform meets the analytical and clinical quality goals required for the galectin-3 (GAL-3) use in clinical practice. We evaluated results obtained from 121 apparently healthy adults and 382 patients with heart failure (HF). All healthy subjects and patients showed GAL-3 concentrations in plasma above the limit of detection (1.9 &mu;g/L) and the limit of quantitation (2.4 &mu;g/L). GAL-3 in healthy subjects ranged between 6.4 and 40.6 &mu;g/L (median, 13.0 &mu;g/L, interquartile range, 11.2-15.2 &mu;g/L, 97.5th percentile, 33.7 &mu;g/L). GAL-3 values were found significantly increased in patients with chronic HF (median, 15.1 &mu;g/L, interquartile range, 11.7-19.4 &mu;g/L) compared to healthy subjects (P &lt;0.0001). HF patients with cardiac fibrosis, confirmed by magnetic resonance, showed significantly higher GAL-3 values (median, 15.3 &mu;g/L, interquartile range, 11.2-21.9 &mu;g/L) than those without cardiac fibrosis (median, 12.9 &mu;g/L, interquartile range, 11.2-15.0 &mu;g/L) (P=0.03). ROC analysis showed that GAL-3 discriminates the presence of cardiac fibrosis with an area under the curve of 0.635 (0.526-0.744), with a specificity of 76.7% and a sensitivity of 54.1% at the cut-off of 14.6 &mu;g/L. Using multivariable models cardiac fibrosis was significantly associated with the logGAL-3.</p>
Biochimica Clinica ; 40(4) 307-315
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