International Journal of COPD (Jun 2022)
Fibrinogen, a Promising Marker to Evaluate Severity and Prognosis of Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Retrospective Observational Study
Abstract
Wei Sun,1 Zhixin Cao,1 Yingmin Ma,2 Jing Wang,1 Liming Zhang,1 Zujin Luo1 1Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Youan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Zujin Luo, Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, Email [email protected]: Fibrinogen is increasingly being studied as an inflammatory biomarker in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but there are limited data on the role of fibrinogen in assessing the severity of acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD). This study aimed to explore whether circulating fibrinogen could be used as a surrogate to measure the severity and predict the prognosis of AECOPD.Methods: A total of 535 AECOPD patients diagnosed at our center from January 2016 to June 2021 were retrospectively enrolled in this study. The electronic medical record of each patient was retrieved to collect data on baseline characteristics and laboratory parameters, as well as the use of noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation (NPPV) and prognosis. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to identify independent factors associated with circulating fibrinogen values. Receiver-operating characteristic curve and multivariate logistic regression analysis were applied to further verify the use of fibrinogen to predict NPPV failure.Results: Compared to patients with fibrinogen 4 g/L) tended to have elevated inflammatory response and higher incidence of DVT/PTE, emphysema, pneumonia, and atherosclerosis. In addition, fibrinogen levels in NPPV-failure patients were significantly higher than non-NPPV patients and NPPV-success ones. The presence of emphysema, pneumonia, and history of long-term oxygen therapy and higher CRP levels and leukocyte counts were independent risk factors associated with increased fibrinogen levels in AECOPD. Furthermore, our data indicated that fibrinogen could be considered as a reliable biomarker to predict NPPV failure (AUC, 0.899, 95% CI 0.846– 0.952), with an OR of 7.702 (95% CI 2.984– 19.875; P 3.55 g/L can independently predict NPPV failure.Keywords: COPD, noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation, acute exacerbation, fibrinogen, predictor
