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Open Heart. 2017 Jun 10;4(2):e000633. doi: 10.1136/openhrt-2017-000633. eCollection 2017.

Osteopontin predicts clinical outcome in patients after treatment of severe aortic stenosis with transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI).

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Matthias Lutz, Nora von Ingersleben, Moritz Lambers, Mark Rosenberg, Sandra Freitag-Wolf, Astrid Dempfle, Georg Lutter, Johanne Frank, Peter Bramlage, Norbert Frey, Derk Frank

Affiliations

  1. Department of Internal Medicine III (Cardiology and Angiology), University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
  2. German Centre for Cardiovascular Research, DZHK Partner Site Hamburg/Kiel/Lübeck, Kiel, Germany.
  3. Institute of Medical Informatics and Statistics, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
  4. Department for Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany.
  5. Institute for Pharmacology and Preventive Medicine, Cloppenburg, Germany.

PMID: 28761684 PMCID: PMC5515168 DOI: 10.1136/openhrt-2017-000633

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Osteopontin (OPN) is an extracellular matrix protein that plays an integral role in myocardial remodelling and has previously been shown to be a valuable biomarker in cardiovascular disease. Because of the concentric myocardial hypertrophy associated with severe, symptomatic aortic stenosis (AS), we hypothesised that OPN expression may have a prognostic value in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI).

METHODS: We prospectively included 217 patients undergoing TAVI between February 2011 and December 2013 with a median follow-up of 349 days. Twenty healthy individuals from the same age range free from structural heart disease served as controls. The primary endpoint for the analysis was survival time.

RESULTS: Median preprocedural OPN levels (675 ng/mL; IQR 488.5-990.5 ng/mL) were significantly higher in patients with severe aortic valve stenosis compared with healthy controls (386 ng/mL; IQR 324.5-458, p<0.001). Patients with increased OPN values showed at baseline a decreased 6 min walk test performance, increased rates of atrial arrhythmia, and an increased risk of death during follow-up (HR 2.2; 95% CI 1.3 to 3.5 for the comparison of the highest vs lowest OPN quartile). Multiple Cox regression analysis demonstrated that OPN improves the prediction of an adverse prognosis further than N-terminal probrain natriuretic peptide.

CONCLUSIONS: OPN levels at baseline are associated with adverse outcomes in patients with severe, symptomatic AS undergoing TAVI.

Keywords: NTproBNP; aortic stenosis; death; osteopontin; transcatheter aortic valve intervention

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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