Affiliation:
1. IRD: Institut de recherche pour le developpement
2. Institut de Recherche Clinique du Bénin
3. hôpital d'Abomey Calavi
4. CHUMEL
5. Université de Limoges: Universite de Limoges
6. APHP: Assistance Publique - Hopitaux de Paris
7. diverse
Abstract
Abstract
Background: Cerebral malaria (CM) is a neuropathology which remains one of the deadliest forms of malaria among African children. The kinetics of the pathophysiological mechanisms leading to neuroinflammation and the death or survival of patients during CM are still poorly understood. The increasing production of cytokines, chemokines and other actors of the inflammatory and oxidative response by various local actors in response to neuroinflammation plays a major role during CM, participating in both the amplification of the neuroinflammation phenomenon and its resolution. In this study, we aimed to identify risk factors for CM death among specific variables of inflammatory and oxidative responses to improve our understanding of CM pathogenesis.
Methods: Children presenting with CM (n = 70) due to P. falciparuminfection were included in southern Benin and divided according to the clinical outcome into 50 children who survived and 20 who died. Clinical examinationwas complemented by fundoscopic examination and extensive blood biochemical analysis associated with molecular diagnosis by multiplex PCR targeting 14 pathogens in the patients’ cerebrospinal fluid to rule out coinfections. Luminex technology and enzyme immunoassay kits were used to measure 17 plasma and 7 urinary biomarker levels, respectively. Data were analysedby univariate analysis using the nonparametric Mann‒Whitney U test and Chi2 Pearson test. Adjusted and multivariate analyses were conducted separately for plasma and urinary biomarkers to identify CM mortality risk factors.
Results: Univariate analysis revealed that higher plasma levels of TNF, IL-1β, IL-10, IL-8, CXCL9, granzyme B, and angiopoietin-2 and lower urinary levels of PGEM were associated with CM mortality. The multivariate logistic analysis highlighted elevated plasma levels of IL-8 as the main risk factor for death during CM. Values obtained during follow-up at D3 and D30 revealed immune factors associated with disease resolution, including plasma CXCL5, CCL17, CCL22, and urinary 15-F2t-isoprostane.
Conclusions: These results provide important insight into our understanding of CM pathogenesis and clinical outcome and may have important therapeutic implications.
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Research Square Platform LLC
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