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Serum periostin levels in COVID-19: Is it useful as a new biomarker?
Mehmet Cabalak1, Serdar Doğan2, Tayibe Bal1
1Department of Infection Disease and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Hatay, Turkey.
Objectives:
Severe disease characterised by interstitial pneumonia may develop in some cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Periostin has been associated with many respiratory diseases. In this study, we aimed to investigate whether periostin could be a useful new biomarker in the follow-up and severity assessment of the disease in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia.
Methods:
In the study, 32 patients followed up during May to July 2020 because of COVID-19 and 24 healthy controls were included. The patients were divided into two groups, namely, mild/moderate and severe, according to the severity of the disease. Serum periostin and transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β) levels were tested using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) method using commercially available ELISA kits.
Results:
It was observed that the periostin level was significantly higher in both mild/moderate cases and severe cases compared with the control group at first presentation. However, TGF-β levels at first presentation were similar between the groups.
Conclusions:
The current manuscript may be the first one performing periostin ELISA on COVID serum, and we believe that periostin can be used as a new biomarker.
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