Abstract
Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) which have a potential role in noninfectious diseases, may play an important role in patients with acute coronary syndrome. The goal of this study was to investigate the association of NETs and in-hospital major adverse cardiac events among patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Using immunofluorescence staining, ELISA, and fluorescent enzyme standard instrument, we assessed NETs and NETs-related factors. Multivariate analyses were performed after univariate analyses to investigate which variables were independently associated with major adverse cardiac events. Compared with peripheral arteries, we observed neutrophils obtained from infarct-related artery (IRA) releasing NETs. The dsDNA levels, NET-specific marker myeloperoxidase/deoxyribonucleic acid (MPO/DNA) complexes and NETs-related factor tissue factor were significantly higher in coronary plasma samples. Multivariate analysis that white cell counts and coronary dsDNA were independently associated with in-hospital major adverse cardiac events. ROC curve for coronary dsDNA showed sensitivity of 78.0% and specificity of 53% for the cut-off value of 0.39ug/ml. Conclusion, these results provide evidences indicating NETs were associated with STIM, and occurrence of adverse cardiac events.
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Introduction
Atherosclerotic plaque disruption and subsequent intraluminal thrombus formation are the primary pathological hallmark of acute myocardial infarction. Despite modern advances in both pharmacological and interventional therapy, atherothrombosis remains one of the most significant clinical burdens worldwide1. Therefore, precise pathological mechanisms of acute coronary occlusion and the factors that influence complications and prognosis must be explored.
Neutrophils, the front-line defense cells against microbes2, have another distinct microbicidal function in relation to NETs3,4. NETs are web-like structures, comprising decondensed chromatin coated with granular proteins such as MPO and neutrophil elastase (NE)5,6. Recent evidence shows that NETs may have a potential role in noninfectious diseases, including, but not limited to, atherosclerosis7.
In patients with severe coronary atherosclerosis, plasma NETs-related structures such as dsDNA, nucleosomes, and MPO/DNA complexes are elevated. Meanwhile, the level of nucleosomes is associated with the risk of coronary stenosis, whereas MPO/DNA complexes can predict major adverse outcomes8. In the blood of infarcted coronary artery, neutrophils aggregate in large numbers. However, it is not clear whether infarct-related coronary neutrophil released NETs or NET-related factors and their related structures are associated with adverse outcome in patients with acute STEMI.
Mounting evidence has implicated NETs in sterile inflammation9,10,11,12. We hypothesized that neutrophils/NETs may play an important role in STEMI. Therefore, we assessed the IRA structures of NETs and their related factors in STEMI patients. We also evaluated the relationship between the occurrence of NET-related markers and in-hospital MACEs.
Results
Patient characteristics
We enrolled 83 consecutive patients in this study. Each patient was enrolled within 12 hours of the onset of clinical signs and had STEMI with TIMI flow 0 before emergent PCI. Characteristics of patients are listed in Table 1. Approximately 78.9% of the patients were men, the mean age was 59 ± 1years, and conventional risk factors were similar to those of recently published ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome (STE-ACS) trials. Two study participants died in hospital.
Neutrophils from infarct-related coronary arteries release NETs structures and NETs-related factors
We observed in vivo neutrophils isolated from IRA blood samples (n = 36) forming NETs and significant differences were observed compared with peripheral arteries from the same patients (n = 36) and control individuals (controls, n = 5), as demonstrated by microscopy immunofluorescence (Fig. 1A,B).
Accordingly, in vitro, we also looking for mechanisms that antagonize NETs, and, we used heparin which may influence the activation of neutrophil forming NETs to process the NETs structures. This was ineffective, as was tirofiban (Fig. 2).
Then the extracellular DNA (mean 0.41 vs.0.31, p = 0.038), NET-specific marker MPO/DNA complexes (mean 0.44 vs. 0.28, p = 0.021) and NETs-related TF (mean 22.0 vs. 15.7, p = 0.048) were significantly higher in plasma samples obtained from IRA compared with peripheral arteries (Fig. 3A–C). However, there was no significant difference for TNF-α between coronary and periphery blood (mean 86 vs.78, p = 0.652) (Fig. 3D).
High baseline levels of coronary dsDNA are significantly associated with the occurrence of in-hospital adverse events
During hospitalization, 23(27.7%) patients suffered adverse events. (Table 2).
In-hospital adverse events occurred more frequently in men (72.7%), with a mean age of 59 years (59 ± 1), who were less often diabetic (9%). Significantly elevated baseline levels of coronary dsDNA, were observed in the group who suffered adverse events compared with the event-free group (mean 0.46ug/ml in non-MACEs vs. 0.70ug/mL in MACEs; p = 0.002). In addition, in-hospital MACEs were associated with following factors: white cell counts, mononuclear cells, troponin T, systolic blood pressure, coronary dsDNA (p < 0.05). (Table 3).
Inter-variable analyses showed that white blood cell was associated with mononuclear cells; the variable was excluded from the multivariate model that showed white cell counts and coronary dsDNA were independently associated with in- hospital MACEs (Table 4).
Meanwhile, time-concentration curves and their changes for the plasma levels of total CK, CK-MB from time of enrollment to 110 h have been displayed (Fig. 4A,B), which was commonly used in evaluating the degree of myocardial necrosis in clinical practice and associated with adverse clinical outcomes13,14,15. The curves for CK, CK-MB reached peak levels by 6 to 12 h, and decreased steadily thereafter. The concentration of CK and CK-MB were lower than that after PCI operation (CK: 374 ± 580.15vs 4489 ± 2359.27, p < 0.01; CK-MB: 39.89 ± 42.66 vs 344.23 ± 184.7, p < 0.01). Additionally, the association between dsDNA, MPO/DNA and CK, CK-MB were explored, although there was no correlation been found, as well as dsDNA or MPO/DNA with enzymatic infarct size (creatine phosphokinase isoform MB area under the curve).
Coronary dsDNA was more sensitive than other conventional prognostic markers
Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were constructed to evaluate predictive value for hospital mortality (Fig. 4C). The area under the curve (AUC) of troponin T, CK-MB and dsDNA were 0.68 (95% CI 0.548 to 0.815), 0.57 (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.413 to 0.720), and 0.72 (95% CI: 0.612 to 0.881) respectively. The optimal cut-off value for troponin T was 0.17ug/L, for CK-MB 107.6U/L and for dsDNA 0.39ug/ml. The sensitivity and specificity for troponin T 61% and 28%, for CK-MB was 50% and 30%, for dsDNA 78% and 53%. Obviously coronary dsDNA on admission did reveal a higher AUC for the prediction of in-hospital MACEs.
Discussion
To our knowledge, this is the first time that the relationship between neutrophils/NETs and STEMI has been studied in STEMI patients with TIMI 0 flow before emergency PCI. This study demonstrated 4 major findings: (1) neutrophils obtained from IRA release NETs (2) MPO/DNA and dsDNA (proposed as surrogate markers for NETs) and NETs-related factor TF to be highly increased in the IRA plasma compared with peripheral artery plasma (3) conventional antithrombotics such as heparin and tirofiban was ineffective to the NETs structures. (4) coronary dsDNA is independently associated with the development of in-hospital MACEs and more sensitive than other conventional prognostic markers in patients with STEMI undergoing primary PCI.
Circulating leukocytes, particularly monocytes, have been shown to play a central role in atherothrombosis16,17, neutrophils, the most abundant white blood cells, have not been investigated until recent years18,19,20,21,22,23. Accordingly, recent experimental evidence revealed the critical role of neutrophils/NETs in thrombotic events24,25,26 and mounting evidence implicates a potential role of NETs in linking sterile inflammation with thrombosis, including atherothrombosis7,27. Andreas Mangold has detected that NETs are found abundantly throughout coronary thrombi, serving as a primary scaffold for platelets and erythrocytes, as well as for fibrin28. Herein we observed that neutrophils isolated from IRA release NETs in STEMI patients (n = 36) as demonstrated by microscopy immunofluorescence. We also found, in agreement with the findings of others, that extracellular dsDNA levels and NET-specific marker MPO/DNA complexes are also elevated in plasma samples obtained from IRA. In addition, conventional antithrombotics such as heparin and tirofiban was ineffective to the NETs structures. In all, the evidence suggests that neutrophils/NETs are a possible key player in the pathogenesis of NET-related atherothrombosis. Simultaneously, our study patients who suffer from hospital adverse events had higher levels of dsDNA compared to patients who did not develop adverse events. Andreas Mangold observed that coronary blood dsDNA level was correlated positively with thrombus NET burden28, which suggests that circulating dsDNA primarily originates from NETs. Meanwhile, they showed that coronary NET burden correlated negatively with ST-segment resolution, which corresponds to the no-reflow phenomenon, consistently demonstrated to be a strong independent predictor of adverse clinical outcome. In the present study, we observed that increased levels of dsDNA from IRA are associated with the in-hospital MACEs among STEMI patients undergoing pPCI. Our study expanded the sample size, reconfirmed the previous studies conclusion and identified dsDNA as a potential therapeutic target for STEMI patients.
Additionally, most of the in-hospital complications were cardiogenic shock. The strongest factors related to cardiogenic shock were infarct size(IS) and residual LV function. Therefore, with the use of logistic-regression models, the others risk factors associated with IS and LV function were estimated as the predicted probability of the occurrence in-hospital adverse events. In a multivariate regression model, coronary dsDNA remained an independent correlation with in-hospital MACEs. In addition, we explored the association between the change of CK-MB and AUC CK-MB, which commonly used in evaluating the degree of myocardial necrosis in clinical practice and associated with adverse clinical outcomes13,14,15, and NETs (dsDNA, MPO/DNA). Although, there was no correction been found, coronary dsDNA was more sensitive than other conventional prognostic markers, such as troponin T and CK-MB. We speculated that these results associated with NET-related atherothrombosis and the mechanism should be explored more precisely in future studies.
Though there is significant evidence of a critical role for neutrophils/NETs in the atherosclerotic thrombotic process18,19,20,23,29,30,31, their impact on thrombogenesis was, until recently, questioned for acquiring or producing tissue factor (TF). Experimental data showed neutrophils/NETs acquire microparticle-derived TF while others suggested that TF is produced by neutrophils under inflammatory stimuli32. Osterud et al. reported that isolated neutrophils fail to produce TF when stimulated with lipopolysaccharide alone or in conjunction with phorbol myristate acetate(PMA)33. Simultaneously, another study demonstrated the expression of TF by neutrophils isolated from the bronchoalveolar fluid from patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome34. In relation to this, evidence from Dimitrios A. Stakos et al. showed that NETs express functional TF in the culprit artery of acute myocardial infarction35. For our study, in the perspective of concentration, we observed TF levels in the IRA were high compared with the levels in a radial artery. Whether elevated TF was associated with infarct-related arterial neutrophils/NETs or not, there was a need for further study and data in this area. Inflammatory factors such as TNF-α, which was thought to regulate neutrophils to release NETs and then generate TF35, was observed at higher levels in IRA than peripheral arteries, although this difference was not statistically significant.
Limitations
This study has several limitations. First, only STEMI patients with TIMI 0 flow were included; therefore, the findings may not be generalizable to patients with TIMI > 0. Secondly, since the majority of our patients were successfully treated with pPCI (TIMI > 3; reperfusion success with pPCI influences the extent of myocardial damage36), further studies are necessary to demonstrate if our results are applicable to patients with unsuccessful PCI. Finally, our study was mostly descriptive, the mechanism should be explored more precisely in future studies. However, our data reconfirmed that the NETs are associated with STIM, and identified dsDNA as a potential therapeutic target for STEMI patients.
Conclusion
Our study indicated that NETs were associated with STIM, and occurrence of in-hospital MACEs. Although our study was limited by a small sample, sensitivity analysis-bootstrap show that the results were robust.
Methods and Materials
Patients and samples
Between January and December 2017, one hundred and seventy consecutive patients with STEMI (78.9% men, mean age 59 ± 1years) admitted to the hospital within 12 hours of the onset of symptoms were prospectively enrolled in the present study. Patients undergoing Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and fulfilling the following criteria were included in the study: (1) persistent severe chest pain >30 min, (2) ST-segment elevation of >1 mm in 2 consecutive leads on electrocardiogram, (3) a new occurrence of left bundle branch conduction block, or adjacent leads appear Q wave; myocardial enzymes or troponin increased, (4) TIMI flow 0 before PCI.
Patients with the following criteria were excluded: treatment with thrombolytic drugs in the previous 24 hours, cardiogenic shock in the previous 24 hours, active infection, previously diagnosed systemic inflammatory disease, known malignancy, end-stage liver or renal failure, under immunosuppression, recent trauma, and a refusal to enroll in the research study. All patients were given 300 mg of aspirin, 600 mg of clopidogrel and 30 mg atorvastatin. Informed consent was obtained from all patients.
In total, 83 patients were included in the present study, and this sample was able to detect the change corresponding to an odds ratio of 0.504 when coronary dsDNA is increased to one standard deviation above its median, assuming a baseline probability of 0.28 for the MACEs in our sample with 80% power at a 0.050 significance.
All PCI procedures were performed using the standard approach with a 6-Fr guiding catheter. After administration of intravenous heparin (100 IU/kg) and a loading dose of clopidogrel (300 mg), direct stenting was performed whenever possible; in the remaining cases, balloon pre-dilatation was performed. In patients treated with tirofiban, the agent was administered after the PCI procedure in the coronary care unit.
For sample collection, a total of 10 to 20 mL of blood from the IRA was aspirated with a commercial thrombectomy catheter (Export [Medtronic, MN]). In parallel, radial blood was drawn from the radial artery. All blood samples were treated with ethylenediamnetetraacetic acid (EDTA) anticoagulant. A flow chart providing information related to recruitment and inclusion in the present study was presented in Fig. 5. This prospective cohort study was in compliance with the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Ethics Committees of First Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University. All patients were given written informed consent.
Detection of NETs structures and NETs-related factors
Neutrophils were isolated from human IRA or peripheral blood according to the manufacturer’s protocol (Human peripheral blood neutrophil cell isolation kits purchased from Haoyang Biotechnology Tianjin Beijing, China). The structure of NETs was detected using immunofluorescence and observed using confocal microscopy (TCS, Leica USA). SYTOX Green DNA was used to detect the dsDNA content in the plasma of IRA arteries or radial arteries. The MPO/DNA complexes was measured by ELISA37,38. At the same time, the concentrations of TF and TNF-α of coronary blood and radial blood were also measured.
Definition of major adverse cardiac events
Cardiogenic shock: 1. Systolic blood pressure (SBP) ≤90 mmHg or mean arterial pressure drop ≥30 mmHg, or patients with hypertension decreased by 60 mmHg compared to the original systolic blood pressure for at least 30 minutes. 2. cardiac index (CI) ≤2.2 L/(min · m2). 3. organ hypoperfusion: changes in demeanor, cyanosis, limb chills, decreased urine output [<0.5 ml/kg · h]; Ventricular arrhythmias, ECG shows a wide QRS wave; Infarction recurrence: recurrence of myocardial infarction and elevated myoglobin; Heart failure, difficulty breathing, acute pulmonary edema, oliguria; Cardiac death: death within 24 H after admission.
Statistical analyses
Power analysis and sample size was using to calculate the sample size. All analyses were performed using SPSS 21.0 v software. Continuous data were presented as mean ± SD, and were compared using Student t test. Categorical data were expressed as numbers and percentages. The relationship was examined using Spearman’s rank correlation test. A stepwise multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed to identify the independent risk factors of MACEs. The analyses included variables associated with the dependent variable in univariate analysis that did not have significant correlation between them. The clinical cut-off points were determined from the receiver operating characteristic curve. Statistical significance was set at p < 0.05.
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This work was supported by grants from the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University (No. XJTUYAF-CRF-2015-022) and the Department of Science and Technology, Shaanxi province (No. 2016JM-8038).
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D.Y. and J.L.: study design. X.W. and J.L.: data collection. J.L. and Z.Z.: data analysis and manuscript drafting. P.L.: PCI surgery. J.L. and X.W.: NETs and related factors measurement at baseline. P.L., T.W. and Ai. M.: guide for study design and manuscript revision. All the authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Liu, J., Yang, D., Wang, X. et al. Neutrophil extracellular traps and dsDNA predict outcomes among patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction. Sci Rep 9, 11599 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-47853-7
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