natriuretic-peptide--brain and Myeloproliferative-Disorders

GDF-15 is an established cardiovascular risk marker but is equally implicated in tumour biology. Elevated levels of GDF-15 have indeed been observed in distinct tumour entities. This study aimed to explore the relation of GDF-15 to other cardiac biomarkers and the general association of GDF-15 on prognosis in an unselected cohort of treatment-naïve cancer patients.. We prospectively enrolled 555 consecutive patients at time of diagnosis of malignant disease prior receiving anticancer therapy. Plasma GDF-15 concentrations were determined alongside other cardiac and routine laboratory markers. All-cause mortality was defined as primary endpoint.. GDF-15 levels were 338 ng/L (IQR:205-534) for the total cohort, and values were comparable for different tumour entities except breast cancer. Metastatic disease was characterized by higher plasma GDF-15 [435 ng/L (IQR:279-614) vs 266 ng/L (IQR:175-427), P < .001]. GDF-15 correlated positively with inflammatory status reflected by CRP, SAA and IL-6 [r = .31, P < .001, r = .23, P < .001 and r = .14, P = .002] and cardiac biomarkers as NT-proBNP, hsTnT, MR-proADM and CT-proET-1 [r = .46; r = .46; r = .59 and r = .50; P < .001 for all]. GDF-15 was significantly associated with all-cause mortality after multivariate adjustment [adj.HR for ln(GDF-15) 1.78, 95%CI:1.47-2.16, P < .001]. There was a significant interaction between solid and haematological malignancies with loss of association of GDF-15 with outcome in myelodysplastic and myeloproliferative disease.. Elevated plasma GDF-15 is associated with progressing disease severity and poor prognosis in solid tumours of treatment-naïve cancer patients. GDF-15 increase is accompanied by worsening systemic inflammation and a subclinical functional impairment of different organs including the heart. GDF-15 represents a promising target for our pathophysiologic understanding in cardio-oncology linking conditions of both cardiac and neoplastic disease.

Topics: Adrenomedullin; Aged; Breast Neoplasms; C-Reactive Protein; Cause of Death; Endothelin-1; Female; Gastrointestinal Neoplasms; Glycopeptides; Growth Differentiation Factor 15; Humans; Interleukin-6; Lung Neoplasms; Male; Middle Aged; Mortality; Myelodysplastic Syndromes; Myeloproliferative Disorders; Natriuretic Peptide, Brain; Neoplasm Metastasis; Neoplasms; Peptide Fragments; Prognosis; Proportional Hazards Models; Prospective Studies; Protein Precursors; Serum Amyloid A Protein; Troponin T

The use of posttransplant cyclophosphamide (PT-Cy) has contributed significantly to the success of haploidentical hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). Furthermore, several studies have shown promising results in the human leukocyte antigen-matched setting. However, the use of high-dose cyclophosphamide has been associated with the development of cardiomyopathy. There is a paucity of data concerning posttransplant cardiac complications in patients undergoing PT-Cy-based HCT.. A retrospective analysis of 176 patients undergoing HCT with PT-Cy was performed. The overall survival, left ventricular ejection fractions, brain natriuretic peptide levels, and cardiac comorbidities were reviewed. The associations between comorbidities and the onset of heart failure were assessed with a Cox proportional hazards model.. Pretransplant cardiomyopathy was found in 16 patients (9.1%) but had no effect on their posttransplant overall survival. Thirty-five patients (21.9%) developed posttransplant cardiomyopathy, which correlated with increased mortality, but this was not statistically different from the frequency-matched non-PT-Cy cohort. The majority of these cardiomyopathies occurred in the setting of an infectious milieu. An age greater than 60 years and an HCT comorbidity index score equal to or greater than 4 were the only risk factors that correlated with posttransplant cardiomyopathy.. The presence of pretransplant cardiomyopathy does not negatively affect overall survival for patients who undergo HCT with PT-Cy. Furthermore, cardiomyopathy in PT-Cy patients is not caused by PT-Cy but is mostly concurrent with infectious complications and is associated with reduced overall survival. Traditional cardiovascular risk factors do not fully predict the occurrence of posttransplant cardiomyopathy. Future research is required to unravel predictive factors for cardiomyopathy after PT-Cy-based HCT. Cancer 2017;123:1800-1809. © 2017 American Cancer Society.

Topics: Adult; Aged; Anemia, Aplastic; Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating; Bone Marrow Diseases; Cardiomyopathies; Cardiovascular Diseases; Comorbidity; Cyclophosphamide; Echocardiography; Female; Heart Failure; Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; Humans; Leukemia; Lymphoma; Male; Middle Aged; Multiple Myeloma; Myelodysplastic Syndromes; Myeloproliferative Disorders; Natriuretic Peptide, Brain; Peptide Fragments; Proportional Hazards Models; Retrospective Studies; Stroke Volume; Survival Rate; Transplantation Conditioning; Young Adult