Leukocyte expression of heme oxygenase-1 [hmox1] varies inversely with severity of tricuspid regurgitation in acute pulmonary embolism.
Jeffrey A Kline, Nury M Steuerwald, John A Watts, Mark Courtney, Herbert L Bonkovsky
Index: Thromb. Res. 136 , 769-74, (2015)
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Abstract
Pulmonary embolism (PE) can cause intracardiac hemolysis and increased plasma hemoglobin and arginase-1, which can worsen pulmonary vasoconstriction. We test the hypothesis that patients with PE that causes tricuspid regurgitation (TR), indicative of higher pulmonary arterial pressures, have decreased leukocyte expression of hmox-1 compared with patients with PE and no TR and patients without PE.Prospective, noninterventional study.Normotensive patients with suspected PE (n=87) who underwent CT pulmonary angiography and transthoracic Doppler-echocardiography.Significant TR was defined as a jet velocity >2.7m/s. Leukocyte expression of hmox-1, haptoglobin, haptoglobin related gene, the haptoglobin receptor, CD163 and cox-2 genes were assessed by quantitative rtPCR, and the hmox-1 promoter was examined for the -413 A→T SNP and GT repeat polymorphisms.Of the 44 (50%) with PE+, 22 had TR+, and their mean pulmonary vascular occlusion (39±32%) did not differ significantly from patients who were TR- (28±26%, P=0.15). Patients with PE+ and TR+ had significantly lower expression of hmox-1 and haptoglobin genes than patients without PE+ and no TR. Expression of hmox-1 varied inversely with TR velocity (r(2)=0.45, P<0.001) for PE+ (n=22) but not patients without PE. Hmox-1 expression did not vary significantly with genotype. Cox-2 did not differ between groups and had no correlation with TR.Severity of TR varied inversely with hmox-1 expression, suggesting that hmox-1 expression affects pulmonary vascular reactivity after PE.Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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