Background: Acute on chronic liver failure (ACLF) is characterized by systemic inflammation and significant mortality, calling for accurate assessment due to the diverse prognosis of liver transplantation (LT).
Methods: 8 patients with ACLF and 4 normal controls (NC) underwent peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) transcriptomics, whereas 9 patients with ACLF and 3 NC had hepatic CD45 T cells transcriptomics. Thecandidateindicatorfoundinthetranscriptomicswas confirmedbya retrospective cohort (n = 137) and one prospective cohort (n = 68).
Results: Transcriptomics revealed significant differentially expression genes (DEGs) and bioprocesses related to the PBMCs and hepatic CD45 T cells. Secreted phosphoprotein 1 (SPP1) was identified as a potential indicator for ACLF patients receiving LT, which was supported by evidence from the cross-sectional cohorts. As the condition of ACLF got worse, so did SPP1 levels, which were associated with liver failure and coagulation failure. SPP1 levels prior to LT were considerably greater in non-survivors of ACLF within 90 days than that in survivors. In the derivation cohort and validation cohort, ACLF patients with elevated SPP1 levels had significantly shorter cumulative survival durations than those with low SPP1 levels, P = 0.02 and P < 0.001, respectively. The SPP1-MELD and SPP1-chronic liver failure consortium (CLIF-C) ACLF scores had comparatively larger areas under the receiver operating characteristic curves (AUCs) than MELD (P = 0.0388) and CLIF-C ACLF (P = 0.045).
Conclusions: The circulating SPP1 showed promise as a predictor for ACLF patients receiving LT, which demonstrated the need for tracking the clinical outcome of LT.
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Int Immunopharmacol
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Department of Immunology, Mudanjiang Medical University, Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang 157011, China. Electronic address:
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Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, People's Republic of China.
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School of Biotechnology, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar 751024, Odisha, India.
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