Diagnostic values of MMP-9 and TGF-1β in assessing the severity of liver fibrosis and the rate of its progression in patients with chronic hepatitis C GT 1 infection

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https://doi.org/10.14739/2310-1210.2023.4.276462

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chronic hepatitis C, viral infection, liver fibrosis, risk factors, cytokines, diagnosis, prognosis

Abstract

Aim. The purpose of our work is to find out diagnostic values of serum MMP-9 and TGF-1β determination for assessing the severity of liver fibrosis and the rate of its progression in patients with chronic hepatitis C genotype 1 (CHC GT1) infection.

Materials and methods. 92 patients with CHC GT1 were examined. The severity of liver fibrosis was assessed by elastometry. The rate of liver fibrosis progression was calculated using the T. Poynard formula. Serum levels of TGF-1β and MMP-9 were measured by ELISA method.

Results. In patients with CHC GT1, the most noticeable changes in the serum parameters of fibrogenesis / fibrinolysis were observed in the presence of F 3–4. The probability of liver fibrosis stages F 3–4 was high at the serum levels of TGF-1β >12.03 pg/ml (p < 0.001), MMP-9 ≤987.20 pg/ml (p = 0.016), TGF-1β/MMP-9 ratio >0.011 (p < 0.001).

Fast liver fibrosis progression was more often registered in F 3–4 than in F 0–2 (62.9 % vs. 16.7 %, p < 0.0001). Increasing rate of liver fibrosis progression in these patients was confirmed by a higher ratio of TGF-1β/MMP-9 compared to that in patients with a slow rate of liver fibrosis progression (p < 0.05). The probability of fast liver fibrosis progression was high at the serum levels of TGF-1β >8.69 pg/ml (p < 0.001), MMP-9 ≤920.65 (p = 0.005), TGF-1β/MMP-9 ratio > 0.011 (p < 0.001).

Conclusions. The diagnostic value of MMP-9 and TGF-1β in assessing the liver fibrosis severity and the rate of its progression in patients with CHC GT1 has been defined. Cut-off levels of MMP-9, TGF-1β and the TGF-1β/MMP-9 ratio for stratification of patients with severe liver fibrosis and the fast rate of its progression have been proposed.

Author Biographies

H. V. Venytska, Zaporizhzhia State Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Ukraine

MD, Assistant of the Department of Infectious Diseases

O. V. Riabokon, Zaporizhzhia State Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Ukraine

MD, PhD, DSc, Professor, Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases

Yu. Yu. Riabokon, Zaporizhzhia State Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Ukraine

MD, PhD, DSc, Professor of the Department of Children Infectious Diseases

R. O. Shcherbyna, Zaporizhzhia State Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Ukraine

PhD, DSc, Associate Professor of the Department of Natural Sciences for Foreign Students and Toxicological Chemistry, Head of Educational and Scientific Medical Laboratory Center with vivarium

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2023-07-20

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Venytska HV, Riabokon OV, Riabokon YY, Shcherbyna RO. Diagnostic values of MMP-9 and TGF-1β in assessing the severity of liver fibrosis and the rate of its progression in patients with chronic hepatitis C GT 1 infection. Zaporozhye Medical Journal [Internet]. 2023Jul.20 [cited 2024Jul.23];25(4):326-32. Available from: http://zmj.zsmu.edu.ua/article/view/276462