Expression and clinical significance of miR-28-5p in aspiration pneumonia / 中华急诊医学杂志

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Objective:To investigate the expression level and clinical value of miR-28-5p in patients with aspiration pneumonia.Methods:This was a retrospective controlled study. A total of 60 patients with severe pneumonia in the Intensive Care Unit of Jinshan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University were selected as the study group. According to the pathogenic factors, the patients were divided into the aspiration pneumonia group and other infectious pneumonia group. At the same time, 20 healthy physical examination patients in our hospital were selected as the healthy control group. Venous blood was collected from patients in the study group on days 1, 4, and 7. The expression level of miR-28-5p in serum was detected by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), and the serum levels of interleukin-4 (IL-4), IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) were detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) assay. The clinical detection results of C-reactive protein (CRP) and procalcitonin (PCT) in the study group were collected. Statistical analysis was conducted with SPSS 26.0. Then the diagnostic value of serum miR-28-5p for aspiration pneumonia was analyzed by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve, and the correlation between serum miR-28-5p and IL-4, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, TNF-α, CRP and PCT was analyzed by Pearson method. According to the clinical effect of 10 days of treatment, the patients were divided into the good prognosis and poor prognosis groups, and the relationship between miR-28-5p and the expression levels of various inflammatory factors and prognosis was analyzed.Results:Compared with the healthy control group, the level of serum miR-28-5p in the study group was significantly increased, and the level of serum miR-28-5p in the aspiration pneumonia group was much lower than that in the other infectious pneumonia group ( P<0.05). Compared with day 0, the expression level of serum miR-28-5p in the aspiration pneumonia group was highly increased, with statistical significance ( P<0.05). ROC curve of serum miR-28-5p expression in aspiration pneumonia showed that AUC was 0.871. When the critical value was 1.211, the sensitivity was 76.67% and the specificity was 95%. Pearson correlation analysis showed that miR-28-5p was positively correlated with IL-6 ( P<0.05), and negatively correlated with IL-4 and IL-10 ( P<0.05). ROC curve analysis showed that the area under the curve of age, miR-28-5p, IL-8, IL-10, TNF-α, CRP, and PCT were 0.695, 0.813, 0.655, 0.668, 0.724, 0.651, and 0.661, respectively. Conclusions:Serum miR-28-5p has important reference significance for the diagnosis of aspiration pneumonia, and has certain value for distinguishing different types of aspiration pneumonia. The expression of miR-28-5p in serum is expected to be a new biomarker to judge the prognosis of patients with severe pneumonia. Age, TNF-α, IL-8, IL-10, CRP and PCT are correlated to the prognosis of severe pneumonia.