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- Emanuela Locci
- Antonio Noto
- Melania Puddu
- Giulia Pomero
- Roberto Demontis
- Cristina Dalmazzo
- Antonio Delogu
- Vassilios Fanos
- Ernesto d’Aloja
- Paolo Gancia
Abstract
Perinatal asphyxia is an event affecting around four million newborns worldwide. The 0.5 to 2 per 1000 of full term asphyxiated newborns suffer from hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), which is a frequent cause of death or severe disability and, as consequence, the most common birth injury claim for obstetrics, gynaecologists, and paediatricians. Perinatal asphyxia results from a compromised gas exchange that leads to hypoxemia, hypercapnia, and metabolic acidosis. In this work, we applied a metabolomics approach to investigate the metabolic profiles of urine samples collected from full term asphyxiated newborns with HIE undergoing therapeutic hypothermia (TH), with the aim of identifying a pattern of metabolites associated with HIE and to follow their modifications over time. Urine samples were collected from 10 HIE newborns at birth, during hypothermia (48 hours), at the end of the therapeutic treatment (72 hours), at 1 month of life, and compared with a matched control population of 16 healthy full term newborns. The metabolic profiles were investigated by 1H NMR spectroscopy coupled with multivariate statistical methods such as principal component analysis and orthogonal partial least square discriminant analysis. Multivariate analysis indicated significant differences between the urine samples of HIE and healthy newborns at birth. The altered metabolic patterns, mainly originated from the depletion of cellular energy and homeostasis, seem to constitute a characteristic of perinatal asphyxia. The HIE urine metabolome changes over time reflected either the effects of TH and the physiological growth of the newborns. Of interest, the urine metabolic profiles of the HIE non-surviving babies, characterized by the increased excretion of lactate, resulted significantly different from the rest of HIE population.
Suggested Citation
Emanuela Locci & Antonio Noto & Melania Puddu & Giulia Pomero & Roberto Demontis & Cristina Dalmazzo & Antonio Delogu & Vassilios Fanos & Ernesto d’Aloja & Paolo Gancia, 2018.
"A longitudinal 1H-NMR metabolomics analysis of urine from newborns with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy undergoing hypothermia therapy. Clinical and medical legal insights,"
PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(4), pages 1-19, April.
Handle:
RePEc:plo:pone00:0194267
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0194267
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