D Lassner1, U Kühl2, C S Siegismund3, M Rohde3, S Elezkurtaj4, F Escher2, C Tschöpe5, U M Gross3, W Poller5, H-P Schultheiss5. 1. Institute of Cardiac Diagnostics and Therapy, Moltkestrasse 31, D-12203 Berlin, Germany info@ikdt.de. 2. Institute of Cardiac Diagnostics and Therapy, Moltkestrasse 31, D-12203 Berlin, Germany Department of Cardiology and Pneumonology, Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany. 3. Institute of Cardiac Diagnostics and Therapy, Moltkestrasse 31, D-12203 Berlin, Germany. 4. Institute of Pathology, Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany. 5. Department of Cardiology and Pneumonology, Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany.
Abstract
AIMS: Improvement of clinical diagnostics of idiopathic giant cell myocarditis (IGCM) and cardiac sarcoidosis (CS), two frequently fatal human myocardial diseases. Currently, IGCM and CS are diagnosed based on differential patterns of inflammatory cell infiltration and non-caseating granulomas in histological sections of endomyocardial biopsies (EMBs), after heart explantation or postmortem. We report on a method for improved differential diagnosis by myocardial gene expression profiling in EMBs. METHODS AND RESULTS: We examined gene expression profiles in EMBs from 10 patients with histopathologically proven IGCM, 10 with CS, 18 with active myocarditis (MCA), and 80 inflammation-free control subjects by quantitative RT-QPCR. We identified distinct differential profiles that allowed a clear discrimination of tissues harbouring giant cells (IGCS, CS) from those with MCA or inflammation-free controls. The expression levels of genes coding for cytokines or chemokines (CCL20, IFNB1, IL6, IL17D; P < 0.05), cellular receptors (ADIPOR2, CCR5, CCR6, TLR4, TLR8; P < 0.05), and proteins involved in the mitochondrial energy metabolism (CPT1, CYB, DHODH; P < 0.05) were deregulated in 2- to 300-fold, respectively. Bioinformatic analyses and correlation of the gene expression data with immunohistochemical findings provided novel information regarding the differential cellular and molecular pathomechanisms in IGCM, CS, and MCA. CONCLUSION: Myocardial gene expression profiling is a reliable method to predict the presence of multinuclear giant cells in the myocardium, even without a direct histological proof, in single small EMB sections, and thus to reduce the risk of sampling errors. This profiling also facilitates the discrimination between IGCM and CS, as two different clinical entities that require immediate and tailored differential therapy. Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved.
AIMS: Improvement of clinical diagnostics of idiopathic giant cell myocarditis (IGCM) and cardiac sarcoidosis (CS), two frequently fatal humanmyocardial diseases. Currently, IGCM and CS are diagnosed based on differential patterns of inflammatory cell infiltration and non-caseating granulomas in histological sections of endomyocardial biopsies (EMBs), after heart explantation or postmortem. We report on a method for improved differential diagnosis by myocardial gene expression profiling in EMBs. METHODS AND RESULTS: We examined gene expression profiles in EMBs from 10 patients with histopathologically proven IGCM, 10 with CS, 18 with active myocarditis (MCA), and 80 inflammation-free control subjects by quantitative RT-QPCR. We identified distinct differential profiles that allowed a clear discrimination of tissues harbouring giant cells (IGCS, CS) from those with MCA or inflammation-free controls. The expression levels of genes coding for cytokines or chemokines (CCL20, IFNB1, IL6, IL17D; P < 0.05), cellular receptors (ADIPOR2, CCR5, CCR6, TLR4, TLR8; P < 0.05), and proteins involved in the mitochondrial energy metabolism (CPT1, CYB, DHODH; P < 0.05) were deregulated in 2- to 300-fold, respectively. Bioinformatic analyses and correlation of the gene expression data with immunohistochemical findings provided novel information regarding the differential cellular and molecular pathomechanisms in IGCM, CS, and MCA. CONCLUSION: Myocardial gene expression profiling is a reliable method to predict the presence of multinuclear giant cells in the myocardium, even without a direct histological proof, in single small EMB sections, and thus to reduce the risk of sampling errors. This profiling also facilitates the discrimination between IGCM and CS, as two different clinical entities that require immediate and tailored differential therapy. Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved.
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