Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2020;201(1):95-106.
Assessment of Inflammation in Pulmonary Artery Hypertension by 68Ga-Mannosylated Human Serum Albumin.
제1저자 박준빈 · 교신저자 팽진철, 이승표
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- Cardiovascular Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
- Department of Nuclear Medicine and.
- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital and Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine and Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea; and.
- Department of Life Science, College of Natural Sciences, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Abstract
Rationale: Diagnosis and monitoring of patients with pulmonary artery hypertension (PAH) is currently difficult.Objectives: We aimed to develop a noninvasive imaging modality for PAH that tracks the infiltration of macrophages into the pulmonary vasculature, using a positron emission tomography (PET) agent, 68Ga-2-(p-isothiocyanatobenzyl)-1,4,7-triazacyclononane-1,4,7-triacetic acid (NOTA) mannosylated human serum albumin (MSA), that targets the mannose receptor (MR).Methods: We induced PAH in rats by monocrotaline injection. Tissue analysis, echocardiography, and 68Ga-NOTA-MSA PET were performed weekly in rats after monocrotaline injection and in those treated with either sildenafil or macitentan. The translational potential of 68Ga-NOTA-MSA PET was explored in patients with PAH.Measurements and Main Results: Gene sets related to macrophages were significantly enriched on whole transcriptome sequencing of the lung tissue in PAH rats. Serial PET images of PAH rats demonstrated increasing uptake of 68Ga-NOTA-MSA in the lung by time that corresponded with the MR-positive macrophage recruitment observed in immunohistochemistry. In sildenafil- or macitentan-treated PAH rats, the infiltration of MR-positive macrophages by histology and the uptake of 68Ga-NOTA-MSA on PET was significantly lower than that of the PAH-only group. The pulmonary uptake of 68Ga-NOTA-MSA was significantly higher in patients with PAH than normal subjects (P = 0.009) or than those with pulmonary hypertension by left heart disease (P = 0.019) (n = 5 per group).Conclusions:68Ga-NOTA-MSA PET can help diagnose PAH and monitor the inflammatory status by imaging the degree of macrophage infiltration into the lung. These observations suggest that 68Ga-NOTA-MSA PET has the potential to be used as a novel noninvasive diagnostic and monitoring tool of PAH.
Keywords
diagnosismacrophagemolecular imagingmonitoringpulmonary artery hypertension
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- 출판 형태
- Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
- 저널
- American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · eISSN 1535-4970
- MeSH
- Animals · Humans · Hypertension, Pulmonary / blood / diagnosis / physiopathology · Inflammation / blood / diagnosis / physiopathology · Male · Models, Animal · Positron-Emission Tomography / methods · Pulmonary Artery / physiopathology · Rats · Serum Albumin, Human / analysis
- Substances
- Serum Albumin, Human