PURPOSE: Adjunctive immunoadjuvant therapies are now proposed in the treatment of septic patients that develop immune dysfunctions. However, a prerequisite is to identify patients at high risk of death that would benefit from such therapy. Knowing that rhIL-7 is a putative candidate for septic shock treatment, we evaluated the association between increased plasmatic level of soluble CD127 (sCD127, IL-7 receptor alpha chain) and mortality after septic shock. METHODS: sCD127 plasmatic level was measured in 70 septic shock patients sampled at day 1-2 (D1) and day 3-4 (D3) after the onset of shock and 41 healthy volunteers. RESULTS: Compared with survivors, non-survivors presented with significantly higher sCD127 concentrations at D1 and D3 (p < 0.001 and p = 0.002). At D1, the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve for sCD127 level association with mortality was 0.846 (p < 0.0001). Kaplan-Meier survival curves illustrated that mortality was significantly different after stratification based on D1 sCD127 level (log rank test, hazard ratio 9.10, p < 0.0001). This association was preserved in multivariate logistic regression analysis including clinical confounders (age, SAPS II and SOFA scores, odds ratio 12.71, p = 0.003). Importantly, patient stratification on both D1 sCD127 value and SAPS II score improved this predictive capacity (log rank test, p = 0.0001). CONCLUSIONS: Increased sCD127 plasmatic level enables the identification of a group of septic shock patients at high risk of death. After confirmation in a larger cohort, this biomarker may be of interest for patient stratification in future clinical trials.
PURPOSE: Adjunctive immunoadjuvant therapies are now proposed in the treatment of septicpatients that develop immune dysfunctions. However, a prerequisite is to identify patients at high risk of death that would benefit from such therapy. Knowing that rhIL-7 is a putative candidate for septic shock treatment, we evaluated the association between increased plasmatic level of soluble CD127 (sCD127, IL-7 receptor alpha chain) and mortality after septic shock. METHODS: sCD127 plasmatic level was measured in 70 septic shockpatients sampled at day 1-2 (D1) and day 3-4 (D3) after the onset of shock and 41 healthy volunteers. RESULTS: Compared with survivors, non-survivors presented with significantly higher sCD127 concentrations at D1 and D3 (p < 0.001 and p = 0.002). At D1, the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve for sCD127 level association with mortality was 0.846 (p < 0.0001). Kaplan-Meier survival curves illustrated that mortality was significantly different after stratification based on D1 sCD127 level (log rank test, hazard ratio 9.10, p < 0.0001). This association was preserved in multivariate logistic regression analysis including clinical confounders (age, SAPS II and SOFA scores, odds ratio 12.71, p = 0.003). Importantly, patient stratification on both D1 sCD127 value and SAPS II score improved this predictive capacity (log rank test, p = 0.0001). CONCLUSIONS: Increased sCD127 plasmatic level enables the identification of a group of septic shockpatients at high risk of death. After confirmation in a larger cohort, this biomarker may be of interest for patient stratification in future clinical trials.
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