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Using urinary neutrophile gelatinase-associated lipocalin for prognosticate renal dysfunction in children with familial Mediterranean fever the study design: a pilot study

Advances in Rheumatology volume 61, Article number: 20 (2021) Cite this article

Abstract

Background

The most important finding that affects the prognosis in Familial Mediterranean Fever is renal amyloidosis. The aim of the present study was to analyze neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin levels in the urine, and to investigate whether it may be used as an early marker for renal involvement.

Methods

Forty attack-free children followed by diagnosis of Familial Mediterranean Fever with age range of 5 and 18 years, and 38 healthy children with similar ages and genders were enrolled into the study. Hemogram, sedimentation, C-reactive protein, urine analysis, creatinine in the spot urine, microalbumin and urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin levels were analyzed and evaluated statistically in the patients and controls.

Results

There was not any statistically significant difference between the patient and control groups for age, gender, height and body weight. Although there was not any clinical sign of attack in the patient group, sedimentation, C-reactive protein and fibrinogen levels were significantly higher than the control group (p = 0.002, p = 0.023, and p = 0.006, respectively). Similarly, urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin level and urinary creatinine ratio were significantly higher in the patient group (p = 0.0001, p = 0.011, respectively). We found a positive correlation between uNGAL level and uNGAL/uCr ratio and number of attacks per year in FMF patients (r = 0.743, p = 0.001 and r = 0.516, p = 0.001; respectively).

Conclusions

Detection of significantly higher levels of urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin level and urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin level to creatinine ratio were suggested as urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin level as a non-invasive marker for renal involvement better than microalbumin.

Background

Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is a recurrent disease with an autosomal recessive inheritance pattern, which is presented by fever for 12 to 72 h, attacks of abdominal, chest and joint pain. Family history is common in the progress of the disease; the most important factor in pathogenesis of the disease is pyrin dysfunction as a result of mutations on MEditerranean FeVer (MEFV) gene on the short arm of chromosome 16 [1,2,3,4,5].

Secondary amyloidosis is the most important and most common complication of FMF [3, 6, 7]. Despite the developments in diagnosis and treatment, FMF may progress to amyloidosis and subsequent renal failure. Amyloidosis manifests proteinuria at nephrotic limits and subsequent uremia, resulting with end-stage renal disease [8,9,10]. Some mutations on the MEFV gene, especially homozygote mutation of M694V were demonstrated to be associated with higher risk for amyloidosis [11,12,13]. Increase of certain acute phase markers such as C-reactive protein (CRP), serum amyloid A (SAA), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), and fibrinogen are detected [14,15,16]. Urinary microalbuminuria (uMA)/urinary creatinine (uCr) is analyzed to detect AA amyloidosis in these patients earlier. It was demonstrated that uMA/uCr ratio is important for early detection of amyloidosis [17,18,19,20]. However, it is commonly accepted that more sensitive and specific markers are required in order to understand development and progression of nephropathy in patients with FMF.

Neutrophile gelatinase-associated lipocalcin (NGAL) is a member of lipocalin proteins. Members of this group are extracellular proteins which bind small and hydrophobic molecules, and play a role in cellular homeostasis [21, 22]. Urinary NGAL (uNGAL) is filtered by glomerules like other small lipocalin molecules. Almost all are absorbed through megalin receptors which are expressed in the brush border on proximal tubule, and uptaken through endocytosis. The level is eventually lower in the urine of healthy individuals. Previous studies indicated that uNGAL is a diagnostic marker in case of glomerular and tubular dysfunction [21,22,23,24]. It is accepted as an early predictive biological marker for acute renal injury and chronic renal diseases [25,26,27]. These findings suggest that uNGAL may be important for FMF patients in order to detect the renal disorder earlier to optimize the patient outcomes, and to achieve the recovery. The aim of the present study was to compare uNGAL and uMA levels as well as uNGAL/uCr and uMA/uCr rates for accurate and early prediction of amyloidosis which causes renal dysfunction in FMF patients, and to investigate whether uNGAL and uNGAL/uCr ratio may be used for disease monitoring.

Methods

Study design and participants

This study was performed on 40 attack-free patients who have referred Pediatric Nephrology Polyclinic of Bakırkoy Dr. Sadi Konuk Training and Research Hospital and diagnosed with FMF between February 2013 and August 2013 and 38 healthy volunteers with similar age and gender distribution. The patient group included 24 females and 16 males, whereas the control group included 22 females and 16 males. The study protocol was approved by local ethical committee of our hospital. The informed consent form was obtained from parent(s) of the patient following a detailed explanation about objectives and scope of the study in line with the principles of Helsinki Declaration of World Medical Association. All patients were receiving colchicine treatment. No patients resistant to colchicine were included in the study. None of our patients were receiving antiinterleukin-1 treatment.

Laboratory tests

Results of complete blood count, ESR, CRP, fibrinogen, SAA and urine analyses which have been performed on the patients enrolled during routine examination and tests were recorded from patient files. The initial and midstream urine samples were then collected from the patients for uNGAL, uMA and uCr analyses during referral. The urine samples taken into sterile containers were centrifuged at 4000 rpm for 10 min. The supernatant was stored at − 80 °C until the time of analysis. The analysis was performed through Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) after collection of all samples. The Lipocalin/2 NGAL ELISA kit (Aviscera Bioscıence, Inc. Santa Clara, CA), and sandwich enzyme immunoassay technique were used; results were evaluated in pg/mL. MA immunoturbidimetry [26] and spectrophotometric urinary Cr analysis were performed on same urine sample; results were evaluated in mg/dL. The patient and control groups were compared for uNGAL and uMA levels, uNGAL/uCr and uMA/uCr rates as well as other parameters.

Statistical analysis

Statistical analysis was performed through the statistical package SPSS software (Version 21.0, SPSS Inc. Chicago, IL, USA). If continuous variables were normal, they were defined as the mean ± standard deviation (p > 0.05 in Kolmogorov-Smirnov test or Shapira-Wilk (n < 30); and if the continuous variables were not normal, they were described as median. Comparisons between groups were applied by Student T test or OneWay ANOVA for normally distributed data; and Mann Whitney U test or Kruscall Wallis test were used for the data which have not distributed normally. The categorical variables between the groups were analyzed by the Chi-square test or Fisher Exc. test. Univariate analyses were performed by Spearman’s correlation test. Receiver operating characteristic curves (ROC curves) were constructed and the areas under curve (AUC) as well as the sensitivity (sen.), and the specificity (spec.) were estimated. A multiple logistic regression analysis was used to determine the associations between measurements; dependent variable values of p < 0.05 were considered statistically significant.

Results

Demographic data and some laboratory tests results of the patients and controls were presented in Table 1. The patient group included 16 males and 24 females; the control group included 16 males and 22 females; and there was not any statistically significant difference in gender distribution (p = 0.85). Similarly, there was not any statistically significant difference between the patient and control groups for age, height, and body weight average (p = 0.73, p = 0.68, p = 0.68, respectively). The difference between systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) averages of the patient and control groups was not statistically significant (p > 0.05).

Table 1 Demographic data and laboratory findings in patients and controls
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There was not any statistically significant difference detected between average leukocyte, hemoglobin, hematocrit, and platelet levels in the patient and control groups (p > 0.05). However, the mean corpuscular volume (MCV) was lower whereas CRP, fibrinogen and ESR averages were significantly higher in the patient group when compared with the control group (p = 0.01, p = 0.02, p = 0.002 and p = 0.006, respectively). Spot uNGAL and uMA levels, and uNGAL/uCr and uMA/uCr rates were compared in the patients and controls. There was not any statistically significant difference observed in uMA level and uMA/uCr ratio of the patient and control groups (p = 0.36 and p = 0.74, respectively). However, uNGAL level and uNGAL/uCr ratio of FMF group was significantly higher than the control group (p = 0.0001 and p = 0.01, respectively).

The ROC analysis was performed to estimate diagnostic profile of uNGAL and uNGAL/uCr in order to detect renal injury in the patient group. There was not any statistically significant difference when ROC distribution of uNGAL for differential diagnosis of FMF, and the area under the ROC curve of uNGAl level and uNGAL/uCr ratio (p = 0.0001 and p = 0.01, Table 2, Fig. 1).

Table 2 The cut off, area under the curve (AUC), sensitivity and 1-specificity of uNGAL in patients with familial Mediterranean fever
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Fig. 1
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Receiver operating characteristic curves for uNGAL and uNGAL/uCr in patients with Familial Mediterranean Fever

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A logistic regression analysis was performed by adding the statistically significant parameters in the patient and control groups in order to investigate the risk factors that affect the patients. uNGAL (p = 0.0001) was detected as an independent risk factor that affects FMF. Accordingly, uNGAL levels of the FMF patients are probably 3.38 times (1.74 to 6.57) as high as those of the control group (Table 3).

Table 3 Logistic regression analysis results in patients with familial Mediterranean fever
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In this study, we examined the relationship between the number of attacks per year and the uNGAL and uMA in FMF patients. According to these results, a positive correlation was found between uNGAL and uNGAL/uCr and the number of attacks per year (r = 0.743, p = 0.001 and r = 0.516, p = 0.001; respectively) in children with FMF. On the other hand, no relationship was found between the annual number of attacks and uMA and uMA/uCr (r = 0.230, p = 0.154 and r = 0.034, p = 0.835; respectively) in FMF patients. The relations of uNGAL, uNGAL/uCr, uMA and uMA/Cr with number of attacks per year in FMF patients are shown in Tables 4.

Table 4 The relations of uNGAL, uNGAL/uCr, uMA and uMA/Cr with number of attacks per year in familial Mediterranean fever patients
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Discussion

In the present study, we detected higher uNGAL level as well as uNGAL/uCr ratio in FMF patients than the control group. In addition, we found a positive correlation between uNGAL level and uNGAL/uCr ratio and number of attacks per year in FMF patients. Fibrinogen, CRP and ESR levels which are significant acute phase reactants for diagnosis of FMF were detected significantly higher in the patient group even the patients were not at attack period. Furthermore, MCV was lower in the patient group than the control group. These findings indicate that a chronic inflammation also continues in FMF patients during attack-free period. Higher levels of spot uNGAL and uNGAL/uCr in the patient group than the control group may indicate that such chronic inflammation may be an early indicator for renal injury in the tubules and glomerules.

We analyzed only the urine and detected uNGAL level and uNGAL/uCr ratio in pediatric patients with FMF as compared to the healthy controls. There are a limited number of studies on the children in the literature. This study showed that renal amyloidosis should be monitored closely due to chronic inflammation in the children with FMF from early period. The increased risk in renal amyloidosis and acute inflammation attacks of serosal membrane is the most important outcome of FMF [1, 6, 7]. Amyloidosis actually appears in 50 to 60% of untreated patients, and may result with proteinuria, nephrotic syndrome, uremia, end-stage renal diseases, and death following subsequent steps [7, 28,29,30]. Routine urine analysis, urinary microalbuminuria and proteinuria are recommended for early diagnosis [31]. The diagnosis is confirmed by renal, rectal or abdominal fat biopsy [32]. However, like our study, microalbuminuria or proteinuria may not be detected in the early period. More sensitive and specific non-invasive tests are therefore needed. A previous study conducted on adult patients with FMF detected blood and urinary NGAL levels higher than the control group [33].

We detected CRP, ESH and SAA levels of our patients within normal reference ranges. These findings indicate that the patients are attack-free; however, these levels in the patients were significantly higher than those in the control group. These results are significant to indicate persistence of a subacute chronic inflammation in these patients. As a result of this inflammation, uNGAL level and uNGAL/uCr ratio were elevated significantly through renal tubular and glomerular involvement. NGAL which is secreted from renal tubular cells secondarily to renal injury, is a protein from lipocalin family. Urinary biomarkers may be detected significantly higher from the first day of diagnosis for renal damage monitoring [34]. The important role of uNGAL was shown in pathophysiological process of chronic renal injury [26, 27]. Conventional biological markers which are used for early diagnosis of the renal injury provide positive results during late term; therefore, they may be used as early marker of acute and chronic renal injury in particular [35, 36]. Although uNGAL indicates the progression to chronic renal damage, the levels were detected elevated in correlation with serum creatinine level in the patients who had renal transplant within the first hour following cold ischemia; and it was shown that uNGAL may be important to predict the need for dialysis within the first week [37, 38].

There is a sustained need for markers which classifies the patients into risk categories that would establish the diagnosis earlier and prevent the adverse outcomes during clinical practice. The NGAL gene which meets most of these expectations was shown as the gene which is expressed most within a short period before creatinine elevation following ischemic and nephrotoxic injury [39, 40]. Inclusion of NGAL as a diagnostic biological marker into clinical use within a short period would make a great contribution to clinical benefits and development of new therapeutic approached.

In this study, we examined the relationship between the number of attacks per year and the uNGAL and uMA in FMF patients. According to these results, a positive correlation was found between uNGAL and uNGAL/uCr and the number of attacks per year. This pilot study is the first to examine the correlation between uNGAL and the number of attacks per year. For this reason, we believe that the results obtained are important. If our study is supported by a controlled study with a larger series, more precise results can be obtained.

Limitation of the present study is limited number of the patients. Furthermore, duration of the disease was very short in our patients. Majority of the patients were recently diagnosed. A further study that would include the patients who are followed-up for 5 years and more may provide significant results. Nevertheless, since the present study serves as the first study on the children about this topic, our outcomes are important.

Conclusion

In conclusion, uNGAL level and uNGAL/uCr ratio were detected higher in the pediatric patients with FMF when compared with the control group. In addition, we found a positive correlation between uNGAL level and uNGAL/uCr ratio and number of attacks per year in these children. The reason for higher levels of uNGAL during progress of other diseases is tubular injury-induced pattern of these diseases, and secretion of NGAL from proximal tubules. However, the disease may affect the glomerules during the progress; therefore, analysis of uNGAL levels may provide significant results, especially in the patients with poor control or lack of diagnosis. Further studies with larger series are required to establish the association between FMF and uNGAL.

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Abbreviations

CRP:

C-reactive protein

DBP:

Diastolic blood pressure

ELISA:

Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay

ESR:

Erythrocyte sedimentation rate

FMF:

Familial Mediterranean Fever

MCV:

Mean corpuscular volume

MEFV:

MEditerranean FeVer

SAA:

Serum amyloid A

SBP:

Systolic blood pressure

uCr:

Urinary creatinine

uMA:

Urinary microalbuminuria

uNGAL:

Urinary neutrophile gelatinase-associated lipocalcin

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HD and SH design to the study and evaluated the laboratory findings. SCO collected patient data and wrote the article. STN made the blood analysis. The author(s) read and approved the final manuscript.

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Oksay, S.C., Dursun, H., Neijmann, S.T. et al. Using urinary neutrophile gelatinase-associated lipocalin for prognosticate renal dysfunction in children with familial Mediterranean fever the study design: a pilot study. Adv Rheumatol 61, 20 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s42358-021-00178-4

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