Saller, T;
Petzold, A;
Zetterberg, H;
Kuhle, J;
Chappell, D;
von Dossow, V;
Klawitter, F;
... Ehler, J; + view all
(2019)
A case series on the value of tau and neurofilament protein levels to predict and detect delirium in cardiac surgery patients.
Biomedical papers of the Medical Faculty of the University Palacky, Olomouc, Czech Rep.
, 163
(3)
pp. 241-246.
10.5507/bp.2019.043.
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Delirium following cardiac surgery is a relevant complication in the majority of elderly patients but its prediction is challenging. Cardiopulmonary bypass, essential for many interventions in cardiac surgery, is responsible for a severe inflammatory response leading to neuroinflammation and subsequent delirium. Neurofilament light protein (NfL) and tau protein (tau) are specific biomarkers to detect neuroaxonal injury as well as glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), a marker of astrocytic activation. METHODS: We thought to examine the perioperative course of these markers in a case series of each three cardiac surgery patients under off-pump cardiac arterial bypass without evolving delirium (OPCAB-NDEL), patients with a procedure under cardio-pulmonary bypass (CPB) without delirium (CPB-NDEL) and delirium after a CPB procedure (CPB-DEL). Delirium was diagnosed by the Confusion Assessment Method for the ICU and chart reviews. RESULTS: We observed increased preoperative levels of tau in patients with later delirium, whereas values of NfL and GFAP did not differ. In the postoperative course, all biomarkers increased multi-fold. NfL levels sharply increased in patients with CPB reaching the highest levels in the CPB-DEL group. CONCLUSION: Tau and NfL might be of benefit to identify patients in cardiac surgery at risk for delirium and to detect patients with the postoperative emergence of delirium.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | A case series on the value of tau and neurofilament protein levels to predict and detect delirium in cardiac surgery patients |
| Location: | Czech Republic |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.5507/bp.2019.043 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.5507/bp.2019.043 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Biomarker, cardiac surgery, delirium, neurofilaments, neuroinflammation, tau protein |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Neurodegenerative Diseases |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10083020 |
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