Journal: Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
Article Title: Prognostic Value of Circulating sST2 for the Prediction of Mortality in Patients With Cardiac Light-Chain Amyloidosis
doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2020.597472
Figure Lengend Snippet: A new scoring system for predicting overall survival incorporating sST2, troponin I, NT-proBNP, and dFLC. A new scoring system including ST2 and other known cardiac risk factors, such as the dFLC and Mayo 2012 staging systems, was built to predict overall survival. We assigned 1 point for sST2 ≥12.34 ng/ml, troponin I >0.025 μg/L, NT-proBNP >1,800 pg/ml, and dFLC >180 mg/L, as reported before. The maximum score was 4, and the minimum score was 0. Score 0, none of the four conditions are met; Score 1, one condition is met; Score 2, two conditions are met; Score 3, three conditions are met; Score 4, all four conditions are met. There were 0 (2), 1 (9), 2 (19), 6 (17), and 6 (9) death events in the 0–4 scoring system, respectively.
Article Snippet: The serum levels of sST2 were measured using a Presage ST2 sandwich ELISA kit (Presage® ST2; Critical Diagnostics, San Diego, CA, USA).
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