Zinc protoporphyrin is a reliable marker of functional iron deficiency in patients with inflammatory bowel disease
- Iron deficiency (ID) is a common manifestation of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), arising primarily due to chronic inflammation and/or blood loss. There is no gold standard for ID diagnosis, which is often complicated by concomitant inflammation. Zinc protoporphyrin (ZnPP) correlates with parameters of iron homeostasis and has been identified as a promising marker for ID, irrespective of inflammation. We investigated the diagnostic performance of ZnPP in ID, iron deficiency anemia, anemia of chronic disease and mixed anemia in a cross-sectional study in 130 patients with IBD. Different parameters were compared by receiver operator characteristic (ROC) analysis as detectors of iron-restricted erythropoiesis (IRE). IRE was detected in 91 patients (70.0%); fifty-nine (64.8%) had absolute ID and 23 (25.4%) functional ID. When inflammation was present, ZnPP was a more reliable sole biomarker of IRE than MCV, transferrin saturation (TSAT) or ferritin (AUC; 0.855 vs. 0.763, 0.834% and 0.772, respectively). The specificity of TSAT was significantly lower than ZnPP when inflammation was present (38% vs. 71%, respectively). We conclude that ZnPP is a reliable biomarker of functional ID in patients with IBD and more dependable than ferritin or TSAT, which are influenced by chronic inflammation. We propose that ZnPP may also have utility in patients with other chronic diseases.
Verfasserangaben: | Eleni Leventi, Aysegül AksanORCiD, Carl Thomas Nebe, Jürgen SteinORCiDGND, Karima Farrag |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-609730 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11020366 |
ISSN: | 2075-4418 |
Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Englisch): | Diagnostics |
Verlag: | MDPI |
Verlagsort: | Basel |
Dokumentart: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Datum der Veröffentlichung (online): | 21.02.2021 |
Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 21.02.2021 |
Veröffentlichende Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 19.05.2021 |
Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | anemia; inflammatory bowel disease; iron deficiency; zinc protoporphyrin |
Jahrgang: | 11 |
Ausgabe / Heft: | 2, art. 366 |
Seitenzahl: | 11 |
Erste Seite: | 1 |
Letzte Seite: | 11 |
Bemerkung: | Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). |
HeBIS-PPN: | 480791023 |
Institute: | Medizin |
DDC-Klassifikation: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Open-Access-Publikationsfonds: | Medizin |
Lizenz (Deutsch): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |