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. 2021 Jun 8;57(6):588.
doi: 10.3390/medicina57060588.

Prognostic Value of Systemic Immune-Inflammation Index for Major Adverse Cardiac Events and Mortality in Severe Aortic Stenosis Patients after TAVI

Aydin Rodi Tosu  1 , Muhsin Kalyoncuoglu  1 , Halil İbrahim Biter  1 , Sinem Cakal  1 , Murat Selcuk  2 , Tufan Çinar  2 , Erdal Belen  1 , Mehmet Mustafa Can  1
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Prognostic Value of Systemic Immune-Inflammation Index for Major Adverse Cardiac Events and Mortality in Severe Aortic Stenosis Patients after TAVI

Aydin Rodi Tosu et al. Medicina (Kaunas). .

Abstract

Background and objectives: In this study, we aimed to evaluate whether the systemic immune-inflammation index (SII) has a prognostic value for major adverse cardiac events (MACEs), including stroke, re-hospitalization, and short-term all-cause mortality at 6 months, in aortic stenosis (AS) patients who underwent transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). Materials and Methods: A total of 120 patients who underwent TAVI due to severe AS were retrospectively included in our study. The main outcome of the study was MACEs and short-term all-cause mortality at 6 months. Results: The SII was found to be higher in TAVI patients who developed MACEs than in those who did not develop them. Multivariate Cox regression analysis revealed that the SII (HR: 1.002, 95%CI: 1.001-1.003, p < 0.01) was an independent predictor of MACEs in AS patients after TAVI. The optimal value of the SII for MACEs in AS patients following TAVI was >1.056 with 94% sensitivity and 96% specificity (AUC (the area under the curve): 0.960, p < 0.01). We noted that the AUC value of SII in predicting MACEs was significantly higher than the AUC value of the C-reactive protein (AUC: 0.960 vs. AUC: 0.714, respectively). Conclusions: This is the first study to show that high pre-procedural SII may have a predictive value for MACEs and short-term mortality in AS patients undergoing TAVI.

Keywords: SII; TAVI; inflammation; major adverse cardiac events; mortality.

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Conflict of interest statement

All authors declare that they do not have a conflict of interest.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
A receiving operating characteristics curve analysis comparison of the systemic immune-inflammation index (SII) and C-reactive protein for major adverse cardiac events (MACEs), including stroke, re-hospitalization, and short-term all-cause mortality at 6 months. CRP: C-reactive protein; AUC: the area under the curve.
Figure 2
Figure 2
The Kaplan–Meier plots of survival curves of patients with low (blue line) and high systemic immune-inflammation index (SII) (green line).
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