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Genomic Test Predicts Survival Rates after Cardiac Surgery

By LabMedica International staff writers
Posted on 28 Dec 2017
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Image: The Nanodrop ND-1000 spectrophotometer (Photo courtesy of University of Texas Arlington).
Image: The Nanodrop ND-1000 spectrophotometer (Photo courtesy of University of Texas Arlington).
Mechanical circulatory support (MCS) devices, such as ventricular assist devices and temporary total artificial hearts, can be surgically implanted in people with advanced heart failure to help the heart's pumping function.

A blood test has been developed that uses gene activity data from immune cells was 93% accurate in predicting survival rates for people with advanced heart failure who had surgery to implant mechanical circulatory support devices.

A large team of scientists at the David Geffen School of Medicine (Los Angeles, CA, USA) enrolled 29 people with advanced heart failure who underwent mechanical circulatory support surgery at UCLA from 2012 to 2014. The team collected blood samples one day before surgery and took clinical data both before surgery and eight days afterward. The patients were classified into two groups depending on their level of organ function. They calculated two validated and commonly used composite organ dysfunction (OD) scores, SOFA and MELD-XI. The SOFA score is a validated and widely accepted measure that rates degree of organ failure across six major organ systems (cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological, renal, hepatic, and coagulation).

Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) were collected and processed using next-generation RNA sequencing transcriptome analysis. The quality of the total RNA was assessed using NanoDrop ND-1000 spectrophotometer and Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer. Library construction consists of random fragmentation of the polyA mRNA, followed by cDNA production using random polymers and the cDNA libraries were quantitated. After RNA extraction, quantification and quality assessment, total mRNA was amplified and sequenced on the whole-genome Illumina HiSeq 2500.

The patients were classified into two groups depending on their level of organ function and 17 patients showed improvement and 12 did not. One year later, 88% of the people in the "improved" group were still alive, compared with 27% in the other group. The scientists identified a set of 28 genes from the pre-surgery blood samples that predicted how well the patients' organ function would recover shortly after surgery and of those 28 genes, 12 helped predict whether organ function would improve after surgery and in forecasting whether the patients would live at least a year after the surgery. The technology used in this study is called MyLeukoMap and builds on the methods used in developing FDA-approved AlloMap, which is used to diagnose organ rejection in heart transplant recipients.

The authors concluded that that preoperative peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) gene expression profiles (GEP) can predict early postoperative improvement or non-improvement in patients undergoing MCS implantation. They believe this information may be useful in developing prognostic biomarkers. The study was published on December 13, 2017, in the journal Pubic Library of Science ONE.

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