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Plasma calprotectin was associated with platelet activation and no-reflow phenomenon in acute coronary syndrome
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders volume 20, Article number: 443 (2020)
Abstract
Background
No-reflow occurs in 3–4% of all percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) and has a strong negative impact on clinical outcomes of acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Therefore, the discovery of a biomarker that can early predict the occurrence of no-reflow has great clinical significance. Multiple factors including platelet activation are relevant to no-reflow. Calprotectin is found to be a biomarker of plaque instability and is identified to be a novel diagnostic and prognostic biomarker of cardiovascular diseases. The association of plasma calprotectin with platelet activation and no-reflow phenomenon in ACS is not clear.
Methods
In this prospective study performed at Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital from 2017 to 2018, a total of 176 Chinese patients with ACS who had undergone PCIs were recruited consecutively, aged from 30 to 88 years. Angiographic no-reflow was defined as thrombolysis in myocardial infarction grade less than 3. Blood samples were collected immediately at admission for the detection of plasma calprotectin and platelet–monocyte aggregates formation. Statistical analysis was performed for the variable’s comparisons between groups and the prediction value of plasma calprotectin for no-reflow.
Results
The mean age of the 176 included ACS patients were 64(±11) years and acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) was present in 41.5% of patients. Twenty-two patients had no-reflow during the PCI procedures and the prevalence was 12.5%. Patients with higher plasma calprotectin had a higher level of platelet–monocyte aggregates (PMA) and a higher prevalence of no-reflow (p < 0.001). The multivariate regression showed that plasma calprotectin and admission hs-cTnI were independently associated with PMA, while plasma calprotectin and serum LDL-c were independent predictors of no-reflow (p < 0.001 and p = 0.017). AUC of calprotectin for predicting no-reflow were 0.898. The cut-off value of plasma calprotectin for no-reflow was 4748.77 ng/mL with a sensitivity of 0.95 and a specificity of 0.77.
Conclusion
Plasma calprotectin was associated with platelet activation and may act as an early predictive biomarker of no-reflow in patients with acute coronary syndrome.
Background
No-reflow can occur in all percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs), especially in emergency PCIs, and has a strong negative impact on clinical outcomes of acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Indeed, patients with no-reflow exhibit a higher prevalence of mortality, heart failure, and early postinfarction complications [1,2,3]. Consequently, early detection and appropriate prevention strategies of no-reflow have an important impact on the outcome of ACS.
Calprotectin, a heterotetramer of proteins S100A8 and S100A9, is identified to be a novel diagnostic and prognostic biomarker of cardiovascular diseases [4]. Calprotectin increases in the high-risk unstable or vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques in coronary arteries [5]. Increasing plasma calprotectin was associated with a higher risk of a recurrent cardiovascular event and significantly increased risk of cardiovascular death or myocardial infarction in ACS patients [6, 7]. Besides, circulating calprotectin is associated with thromboxane-dependent platelet activation in ACS [8]. Higher platelet reactivity and activation were found to be associated with an elevated prevalence of no-reflow after PCI in ACS patients [9].
Despite these studies, the association of plasma calprotectin with platelet activation and no-reflow phenomenon in ACS is not clear. The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between calprotectin and platelet activation and evaluate the value of plasma calprotectin in predicting the development of a no-reflow phenomenon in ACS patients.
Methods
Study population
This prospective study was performed at Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital. A total of 176 Chinese patients with ACS who had undergone PCI were recruited consecutively from 2017 to 2018, aged from 30 to 88 years. ACS diagnosis criteria were defined according to published guidelines [10, 11]. Patients with a history of chronic kidney disease, inflammatory bowel disease, malignancy, severe infection, significant hepatic dysfunction, and auto-immune diseases were excluded. The study protocol was approved by the local institutional ethics committee. All patients provided written consent and received standard treatment according to the ACS management guidelines. Permission was granted to use data for analysis.
Data collection and variable definitions
Demographic and clinical data were captured for all patients. The coronary angiography and PCI procedures were performed according to the current standard practice [12]. The data during the PCI procedures including number of diseased vessels, stent implantation rate, stent count per patient, stent length, stent diameter, thrombus aspiration, and intra-aortic balloon pump was collected. The Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) scoring systems were applied to evaluate the anterograde flow in the target culprit coronary artery and angiographic no-reflow was defined as a TIMI grade less than 3 [13, 14].
Other outcomes of interest included in-hospital major adverse cardiac events (MACE), including death, non-fatal myocardial infarctions, acute heart failure, chest pain, complete atrioventricular block, ventricular fibrillation, and ventricular tachycardia.
Biomarker assays
Blood samples were collected immediately at admission before coronary angiography. Whole blood was carefully drawn via peripheral venipuncture into sterile acid-citrate-dextrose vacutainer tubes. The first 5mLs of blood were discarded. The remaining blood was immediately transported at room temperature to the laboratory for the detection of platelet–monocyte aggregates (PMA) formation with whole blood flow cytometry. The plasma was frozen at − 80 °C for further analysis. Plasma calprotectin was measured using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay kit (Biolegend, USA).
Statistical analysis
The continuous variable data were tested for normality distribution with the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and normal distribution parameters were presented as the mean ± standard deviation (SD). The independent-sample t-test and the Mann-Whitney U test were used for comparison of the study groups. Categorical variables were compared using Pearson’s chi-square test or Fisher’s test and presented as absolute counts and percentages. To determine the association among variable biomarkers and platelet activation, the Pearson correlation analyses, and multivariate linear regression analyses were performed. The predictive parameters for no-reflow were assessed using logistic regression analysis, and the variables with a p-value of < 0.1 were included in multivariate analysis for no-reflow by using a multiple logistic regression model. The discrimination power of calprotectin for no-reflow was assessed using the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC). The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) analysis calculated cut-off values, sensitivity, and specificity. A p-value of < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Data analysis was performed using SPSS version 22 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA).
Results
ACS patients with lower plasma calprotectin level versus ACS patients with higher plasma calprotectin level
A total of 176 ACS patients were included in this study and the patients were divided into 2 groups according to the median of calprotectin detected in our study (3681 ng/mL). There were 83 patients (mean age 63 ± 10 and 65.1% male) in the lower calprotectin group (group 1) and 93 patients (mean age 65 ± 12 and 76.1% male) in the higher calprotectin group (group 2). Baseline demographic, clinical, laboratory and procedure characteristics are shown in Table 1. The mean age, gender, history of smoking, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia and previous medication history did not differ. More absolute number of in-hospital mortality and in-hospital MACE was found in patients with higher calprotectin, but it did not differ significantly. Patients with higher calprotectin had a higher percentage of STEMI and higher GRACE scores (p < 0.001). Concerning coronary risk factors, there was a significantly higher presence of diabetes mellitus (p = 0.012) in patients with higher calprotectin.
For the baseline laboratory variables, patients with higher calprotectin were shown to have a higher level of the total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c), admission serum glucose, and fasting blood glucose (all p < 0.05). Compared with patients with lower calprotectin, patients with higher calprotectin had a significantly higher level of admission high-sensitive cardiac troponin I (hs-cTnI) and B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) (all p < 0.001). In addition, patients with higher calprotectin seemed to have worse renal function and higher inflammation level (all p < 0.05). As for echocardiography variables, significantly higher left ventricular diastolic diameter (LVDd) and lower left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) were found in patients with higher calprotectin (p = 0.005 and p = 0.004) (Table 1).
Concerning the procedural characteristics, patients with higher plasma calprotectin were more likely to have a higher number of diseased vessels, be treated with longer and greater diameter stents, and have higher usage of intra-aortic balloon pump, but the difference was not significant (all p > 0.05). A higher incidence of thrombus aspiration was present in patients with higher plasma calprotectin (p = 0.029). Besides, platelet activation biomarker PMA was found to be significantly higher in patients with higher plasma calprotectin (p < 0.001) (Table 1).
ACS patients with no-reflow versus ACS patients without no-reflow
ACS patients with no-reflow had higher plasma calprotectin and PMA compared with those without no-reflow (6062.9 ± 999.8 vs 3625.7 ± 1526.8 ng/mL, p < 0.001; 47.58 ± 12.30% vs 36.73 ± 12.55%, p < 0.001, respectively) as shown in Fig. 1 (a and b).
Comparison of calprotectin and PMA between ACS patients with and without no-reflow. a ACS patients with no-reflow had higher PMA (47.58 ± 12.30% vs 36.73 ± 12.55%, ***p < 0.001) and (b) higher plasma calprotectin (6062.9 ± 999.8 vs 3625.7 ± 1526.8 ng/mL, ***p < 0.001) compared with those without no-reflow. Data are means ± SD
Determinants of plasma calprotectin and PMA in ACS patients
The analyses of correlation demonstrated that either calprotectin or PMA were positively associated with hs-cTnI on admission, BNP on admission, glucose on admission, GRACE score, LDL-c, TC, CRP, WBC, and neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (N/L). Calprotectin and PMA were negatively associated with LVEF (Table 2). Figure 2 showed that calprotectin was positively correlated with PMA (r = 0.439, p < 0.001). Only calprotectin and hs-cTnI on admission were found to be independently associated with PMA as shown in Table 3.
Determinants of no-reflow in ACS patients
The analysis of univariate logistic regression revealed that no-reflow was associated with calprotectin, PMA, diabetes mellitus history, LDL-c, N/L ratio, glucose on admission, and BNP on admission (all p < 0.05). The multivariate logistic regression of the variables with an unadjusted p < 0.10 showed that only calprotectin and LDL-c were independent predictors of no-reflow (p < 0.001 and p = 0.006 respectively) (Table 4). The ROC curves of calprotectin and LDL-c for predicting no-reflow were shown in Fig. 3. AUC of calprotectin and LDL-c for predicting no-reflow were 0.898 and 0.779, respectively. The cut-off value of plasma calprotectin for no-reflow was 4748.77 ng/mL with a sensitivity of 0.95 and a specificity of 0.77. The cut-off value of LDL-c for no-reflow was 3.06 mmol/L with a sensitivity of 0.77 and a specificity of 0.69.
Discussion
In this study, we have demonstrated that ACS patients with higher plasma calprotectin had an elevated level of platelet activation and a higher incidence of no-reflow. The plasma calprotectin level was independently associated with platelet activation and no-reflow in patients with ACS. Despite that platelet activation biomarker PMA was associated with no-flow, only plasma calprotectin and serum LDL-c acted as independent predictors of no-reflow in patients with ACS as shown in the present study.
In humans, no-reflow may occur in emergency PCI or elective PCI for ACS. The occurrence of no-reflow after PCI decreased the efficacy of reperfusion therapy and is associated with worse clinical outcomes [15]. Following primary PCI for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), no-reflow measured by angiography remarkably increases the short-term mortality risk at 30 days [2] and long-term mortality risk at 1 year [16, 17] and 5 years respectively [18]. Therefore, the discovery of a biomarker that can early predict the occurrence of no-reflow has great clinical significance.
Calprotectin is an inflammation-associated peptide with proinflammatory properties, mainly secreted from activated neutrophils and monocytes under various conditions [4]. Calprotectin is traditionally thought to be involved in the pathophysiology of various inflammatory conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis [19]. However, some recent studies implied that calprotectin may be implicated in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular and cardiometabolic diseases based on low-grade chronic inflammation [6, 20].
High levels of calprotectin were found in human atherosclerotic plaques and it is correlated with the characteristics of rupture-prone lesions [5]. As a result, calprotectin is supposed to be a biomarker of plaque instability [21]. Calprotectin is also found to be specifically expressed in neutrophils and macrophages in infarcted myocardium [22]. Blood calprotectin levels are markedly higher in ACS patients than in stable CAD or healthy subjects [20, 23] and plasma levels of calprotectin were significantly elevated in patients with AMI than in patients with unstable angina pectoris [22]. Moreover, levels of calprotectin were also found to be higher in STEMI patients who died after a median 12 months follow-up compared to the STEMI patients who survived [7]. Calprotectin has been associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular death or myocardial infarction after ACS [6]. What’s more, calprotectin is found to be correlated with first and recurrent cardiovascular events in middle-aged healthy individuals [24]. Similarly, our study revealed that calprotectin was positively correlated with admission cTnI, BNP, and GRACE score. A negative association between calprotectin and LVEF was also present in our study.
Despite the important roles of calprotectin in ACS, the role of calprotectin in the no-reflow phenomenon of ACS patients has not been clarified. The pathophysiology of post-PCI no-reflow is complex and it involves inflammation, vasoconstriction, higher platelet reactivity, and microcirculation embolization [25]. Micro-embolization in distal coronary circulation may occur after plaque rupture or erosion and subsequent thrombosis. Thrombotic material from the originally occurred thrombus may move distally and embolize smaller arteries, thus causing no-reflow. Increased calprotectin concentration was found in aspirated coronary artery blood distal to the culprit ACS lesion associated with thrombosis and is related to local leukocyte activation. Thus, calprotectin is supposed to be a biomarker of inflammation and thrombosis in ACS [26]. In the current study, we firstly demonstrated that calprotectin was an independent predictor of no-reflow in ACS patients.
Cardiovascular risk factors, such as smoking, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes mellitus, and other inflammatory biomarkers are thought to be conventional risk predictors for no-reflow [27, 28]. Diabetes mellitus and hypercholesterolemia are the main risk factor of ACS and is associated with coronary thrombosis, microvascular dysfunction and inflammation processes [29]. In the present study, we demonstrated that plasma calprotectin was related to these risk factors such as admission glucose, LDL-c, WBC, and N/L ratio. Besides, diabetes mellitus, admission glucose, LDL-c, WBC, and N/L ratio were predictors of no-reflow consistent with previous studies [25, 27, 28, 30]. These findings explain to some extent why plasma calprotectin can act as a predictor of no-reflow.
LDL-c was an independent predictor of no-reflow with lower sensitivity and specificity compared with calprotectin in ACS patients as shown in the current study. LDL-c plays a fundamental role in the pathophysiology of CAD. By now, it is well known that the property of atherosclerotic plaques may determine their thrombogenicity [31]. Vulnerable plaques like lipid-rich plaques with thin caps are more likely to form thrombus than stable plaques with thick caps and poor lipid cores [32]. Erosion or rupture of a vulnerable plaque directly activates platelets and causing thrombus formation by the exposure of thrombogenic materials including collagens and a lipid-rich atheromatous core comprising of oxidized LDL particles and cholesterol sulfate. It has been confirmed by intra-coronary imaging that the lipid-rich and necrotic core rich culprit plaques may act as an important predictor of distal embolization and no-reflow in ACS patients [33]. Compared with normocholesterolemic rabbits, hypercholesterolemic rabbits demonstrated markedly increased no-reflow [34]. Patients undergoing elective PCI with preprocedural statin therapy have a decreased incidence of periprocedural myocardial infarction compared with that in patients with no statin therapy [35]. In patients with AMI, long-term use of statins improved coronary flow and reduced the incidence of no-reflow [36]. White blood cell subtypes play crucial roles in modulating the inflammation in the atherosclerotic process and N/L ratio is thought to be an independent predictor of no-reflow after primary PCI [30]. In the present study, we also found that WBC and N/L ratios were associated with no-reflow. Moreover, WBC and N/L ratios were positively correlated with calprotectin and PMA. Some studies have confirmed neutrophil activation and accumulation in the myocardial area affected by acute coronary occlusion [37]. This accumulation is further increased after reperfusion and is another potential source of free radicals [37]. Interaction between activated neutrophils and damaged endothelium may induce endothelial dysfunction and vasoconstriction [38]. Inhibition of selectin adhesion molecules influencing the interaction between activated neutrophils and damaged endothelium has been shown to limit infarct size in animal models [39].
The essential role of platelets for the pathogenic thrombosis development in ACS is highlighted by a large body of evidence. There are increased plasma concentrations of indicators of platelet activation in patients with ACS compared to those with stable CAD or normal populations [40, 41]. Platelet magnifies chronic inflammation and interaction of platelet with leukocytes, endothelial cells and macrophages promote a proinflammatory and prothrombotic setting leading to plaque instability and subsequent intracoronary thrombosis [42]. Platelets may induce inflammatory reactions directly and indirectly by promoting inflammation and recruitment of inflammatory cells. Platelets adhere to the endothelium of small coronary arteries get activated and release several leukocyte recruitment molecules and vasoactive molecules [43]. For these reasons, platelets contribute to ACS not only by inducing the intraluminal thrombosis but also by micro-embolization in the distal coronary circulation, by local thrombosis and vasoconstriction in the microcirculation, and by platelet-mediated inflammatory reactions [44]. Accordingly, higher platelet reactivity and activation were found to be associated with an elevated prevalence of no-reflow after PCI in ACS patients [9]. Correlation between plasma calprotectin and thromboxane-dependent platelet activation has been demonstrated in ACS patients [8]. In the current study, we also found that plasma calprotectin was positively correlated with platelet activation biomarker PMA in ACS patients and PMA was positively correlated with no-reflow in ACS patients.
In this study, we demonstrated that ACS patients with higher plasma calprotectin had a higher incidence of no-reflow and plasma calprotectin might act as an independent predictor of no-reflow in patients with ACS. The mechanism of no-reflow seems to imply many pathways and probably only a part has been clarified. Further basic researches are needed to better understand the specific mechanism of calprotectin in the development of no-reflow.
Our study has some limitations. It was a single-center, prospectively designed study with relatively small sample size. Bias may exist and the findings should be interpreted cautiously. We detected only an admission blood sample of plasma calprotectin with no information about the temporal trend of changes. Optimal predictive cut-off levels and the predictive performance of plasma calprotectin for no-reflow in ACS patients will require validation in a larger scale, prospective, multi-center studies.
Conclusion
Plasma calprotectin was associated with platelet activation and may act as an early predictive biomarker of no-reflow in patients with acute coronary syndrome. Our findings should be further confirmed in future multicenter, prospectively designed studies.
Availability of data and materials
The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
Abbreviations
- PCI:
-
Percutaneous coronary intervention
- ACS:
-
Acute coronary syndrome
- TIMI:
-
Thrombolysis in myocardial infarction
- MACE:
-
Major adverse cardiac events
- PMA:
-
Platelet–monocyte aggregates
- SD:
-
Standard deviation
- ROC:
-
Receiver operating characteristic curve
- AUC:
-
Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve
- STEMI:
-
ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction
- CAD:
-
Coronary artery disease
- TC:
-
Total cholesterol
- LDL-c:
-
Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol
- HDL-c:
-
High-density lipoprotein cholesterol
- MPV:
-
Mean platelet volume
- PDW:
-
Platelet distribution width
- Hs-cTnI:
-
High-sensitive cardiac troponin I
- BNP:
-
B-type natriuretic peptide
- CRP:
-
C-reactive protein
- WBC:
-
White blood cell count
- LVDd:
-
Left ventricular diastolic diameter
- LVEF:
-
Left ventricle ejection fraction
- N/L:
-
Neutrophil lymphocyte ratio
- AMI:
-
Acute myocardial infarction
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This work was supported by grants from the Collaboration Project of Shandong Natural Science Foundation (ZR2017LH004), Department of Science & Technology of Yantai, Shandong province of China, (2018SFGY090, 2016ZH083). The funding bodies did not have any role in the design of the study, data collection, and analysis, nor on the interpretation and dissemination of the results.
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N.S. and X.Z. designed the study; L.L., L.Z., N.S., and H.W. participated in collecting the data, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and flow cytometry; X.Z. and N.S. carried out total data analysis and drafted the manuscript; Y.A. guided and reviewed this manuscript. All the authors approved the final version of the article.
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Song, NP., Zhen, XW., Li, Ld. et al. Plasma calprotectin was associated with platelet activation and no-reflow phenomenon in acute coronary syndrome. BMC Cardiovasc Disord 20, 443 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12872-020-01717-5
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Keywords
- Calprotectin
- Platelet activation
- No-reflow
- Acute coronary syndrome