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ArticleNeurosurgical review2023

Increase in serum vimentin levels in patients with glioma and its correlation with prognosis of patients with glioblastoma.

Taiichi Saito, Yoshihiro Muragaki, Asuka Komori, Masayuki Nitta, Shunsuke Tsuzuki, Shunichi Koriyama, Bunto Ro, Takakazu Kawamata

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Taiichi Saito *Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, 8-1 Kawada-Cho, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan. taiichis@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5016-9619
Yoshihiro Muragaki *Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, 8-1 Kawada-Cho, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan.
Asuka KomoriDepartment of Central Clinical Laboratory, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.
Masayuki NittaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, 8-1 Kawada-Cho, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan.
Shunsuke TsuzukiDepartment of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, 8-1 Kawada-Cho, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan.
Shunichi KoriyamaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, 8-1 Kawada-Cho, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan.
Bunto RoDepartment of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, 8-1 Kawada-Cho, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan.
Takakazu KawamataDepartment of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, 8-1 Kawada-Cho, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan.
Tokyo Women's Medical University · JP

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Abstract

Early diagnosis of glioma is of great value to improve prognosis. We focused on serum vimentin levels as a useful biomarker for preoperative diagnosis. The aim of this study was to determine whether serum vimentin levels in patients with glioma are significantly higher than those of healthy adult volunteer and whether the serum vimentin level is associated with overall survival (OS) in patients with glioblastoma (GBM). This study included 52 consecutive patients with newly diagnosed glioma and a control group of 13 healthy adult volunteers. We measured serum vimentin levels in blood samples obtained from patients with glioma preoperatively and a control group. Furthermore, we investigated the correlation between serum vimentin levels and OS in patients with GBM. The serum vimentin levels of patients with glioma were significantly higher than those of the control group. The serum vimentin level of 2.9 ng/ml was the optimal value for differentiating patients with glioma from the control group with a sensitivity of 92.3% and specificity of 88.5%. The serum vimentin levels correlated significantly with immunoreactivity for survivin. In 27 patients with GBM, serum vimentin levels (cutoff value, median value 53.3 ng/ml) correlated with OS in univariate and multivariate analyses. Our study revealed that serum vimentin levels of patients with glioma are significantly higher than those of the control group. Therefore, we believe that serum vimentin level might be a useful and practical biomarker for preoperative diagnosis of glioma. Furthermore, high serum vimentin levels correlated significantly with shorter OS in patients with GBM.

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Brain NeoplasmsGlioblastomaGliomaAdultBiomarkers, TumorHumansPrognosisVimentinBiomarkers, TumorVimentinBiomarkerGlioblastomaGliomaSerum vimentinSurvivin

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