Aim: Increased serum α-fetoprotein (AFP) has been associated with a good prognosis following acute liver failure (ALF), but the levels of the fucosylated fraction of AFP (Lens culinaris agglutinin-reactive fraction of AFP [AFP-L3]) following acute liver injury remain unknown. The aim of the present study was to investigate the clinical significance of AFP and AFP-L3 in patients with acute liver injury.
Methods: We investigated the serum levels of AFP and highly sensitive AFP-L3% in 27 patients with acute-onset autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), 28 patients with acute hepatitis (AH) and 22 patients with ALF at the onset using a highly sensitive immunoassay (micro-total analysis system).
Results: The serum AFP levels were increased in patients with AIH, AH and ALF, but the levels did not significantly differ among them. However, the mean AFP-L3% level was significantly higher in patients with AIH than in patients with AH (P = 0.0039). Moreover, significantly more patients with AIH demonstrated AFP-L3 positivity (≥10%) when compared with patients with AH (P = 0.014). Although the percentage of AFP-L3 positivity increased with AFP levels, at low serum AFP levels (<10 ng/mL), significantly more patients with AIH demonstrated AFP-L3 positivity than did patients with AH (P = 0.024) or ALF (P = 0.038).
Conclusion: We demonstrated for the first time that highly sensitive AFP-L3% levels were increased at the onset of AIH. The mechanism underlying the increase in AFP-L3 remains to be elucidated, but this finding may reflect an alteration of the glycosylation such as hyperfucosylation, which can influence the modifications of self-antigens in hepatocytes.
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