Elevated S100B urine levels predict seizures in infants complicated by perinatal asphyxia and undergoing therapeutic hypothermia
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Iliana Bersani
Abstract
Objectives
Seizures (SZ) are one of the main complications occurring in infants undergoing therapeutic hypothermia (TH) due to perinatal asphyxia (PA) and hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). Phenobarbital (PB) is the first-line therapeutic strategy, although data on its potential side-effects need elucidation. We investigated whether: i) PB administration in PA-HIE TH-treated infants affects S100B urine levels, and ii) S100B could be a reliable early predictor of SZ.
Methods
We performed a prospective case-control study in 88 PA-HIE TH infants, complicated (n=44) or not (n=44) by SZ requiring PB treatment. S100B urine levels were measured at 11 predetermined monitoring time-points from first void up to 96-h from birth. Standard-of-care monitoring parameters were also recorded.
Results
S100B significantly increased in the first 24-h independently from HIE severity in the cases who later developed SZ and requested PB treatment. ROC curve analysis showed that S100B, as SZ predictor, at a cut-off of 2.78 μg/L achieved a sensitivity/specificity of 63 and 84 %, positive/negative predictive values of 83 and 64 %.
Conclusions
The present results offer additional support to the usefulness of S100B as a trustable diagnostic tool in the clinical daily monitoring of therapeutic and pharmacological procedures in infants complicated by PA-HIE.
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Research ethics: The Local Ethic Committees of the Cooperative Multitask against Brain Injury of Neonates (CoMBINe) International Network approved the study protocol.
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Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all the individuals included in this study, or from their legal guardians or wards.
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Author contributions: IB, GL, RP, EDA, LS, VL, VD, IC, KC, AP, RS, EB, FC, IS, SR, AD, AB, DL, DAWG, FG, LS, MCS, AM, MC, RL contributed to the conceptualization, investigation and writing of the original draft. DG contributed to the project administration, conceptualization, investigation, supervision and writing, review and editing. All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
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Competing interests: The funding organizations played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report or in the decision to submit the report for publication.
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Research funding: This work is part of the I.O. PhD International Program under the auspices of the Italian Society of Neonatology and was partially supported by grants to DG from “I Colori della Vita Foundation”, Italy. We thank Diasorin, Saluggia, Italy, for supporting analysis kits.
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Data availability: Not applicable.
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- Reviews
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- Prognostic value of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies: a systematic review
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