| Home > Articles > Published articles > Diagnostic performance of plasma pTau217, pTau181, Aβ1-42 and Aβ1-40 in the LUMIPULSE automated platform for the detection of Alzheimer disease |
| Date: | 2024 |
| Abstract: | Background: Recently developed blood markers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) detection have high accuracy but usually require ultra-sensitive analytic tools not commonly available in clinical laboratories, and their performance in clinical practice is unknown. Methods: We analyzed plasma samples from 290 consecutive participants that underwent lumbar puncture in routine clinical practice in a specialized memory clinic (66 cognitively unimpaired, 130 participants with mild cognitive impairment, and 94 with dementia). Participants were classified as amyloid positive (A +) or negative (A-) according to CSF Aβ1-42/Aβ1-40 ratio. Plasma pTau217, pTau181, Aβ1-42 and Aβ1-40 were measured in the fully-automated LUMIPULSE platform. We used linear regression to compare plasma biomarkers concentrations between A + and A- groups, evaluated Spearman's correlation between plasma and CSF and performed ROC analyses to assess their diagnostic accuracy to detect brain amyloidosis as determined by CSF Aβ1-42/Aβ1-40 ratio. We analyzed the concordance of pTau217 with CSF amyloidosis. Results: Plasma pTau217 and pTau181 concentration were higher in A + than A- while the plasma Aβ1-42/Aβ1-40 ratio was lower in A + compared to A-. pTau181 and the Aβ1-42/Aβ1-40 ratio showed moderate correlation between plasma and CSF (Rho = 0. 66 and 0. 69, respectively). The areas under the ROC curve to discriminate A + from A- participants were 0. 94 (95% CI 0. 92-0. 97) for pTau217, and 0. 88 (95% CI 0. 84-0. 92) for both pTau181 and Aβ1-42/Aβ1-40. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) was related to increased plasma biomarker concentrations, but ratios were less affected. Plasma pTau217 had the highest fold change (× 3. 2) and showed high predictive capability in discriminating A + from A-, having 4-7% misclassification rate. The global accuracy of plasma pTau217 using a two-threshold approach was robust in symptomatic groups, exceeding 90%. Conclusion: The evaluation of blood biomarkers on an automated platform exhibited high diagnostic accuracy for AD pathophysiology, and pTau217 showed excellent diagnostic accuracy to identify participants with AD in a consecutive sample representing the routine clinical practice in a specialized memory unit. |
| Grants: | Instituto de Salud Carlos III PI21/00791 Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad PI14/01126 Instituto de Salud Carlos III PI17/01019 Instituto de Salud Carlos III PI20/01473 Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad PI13/01532 Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad PI16/01825 Instituto de Salud Carlos III PI18/00335 Instituto de Salud Carlos III PI19/00882 Instituto de Salud Carlos III PI18/00435 Instituto de Salud Carlos III PI22/00611 Instituto de Salud Carlos III PI17/01896 Instituto de Salud Carlos III AC19/00103 Generalitat de Catalunya 2017/SGR-00547 "la Caixa" Foundation 20141210 "la Caixa" Foundation 044412 "la Caixa" Foundation 20142610 |
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| Language: | Anglès |
| Document: | Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada |
| Subject: | Plasma ; Biomarkers ; Alzheimer Blood ; Amyloid ; Tau |
| Published in: | Alzheimer's research & therapy, Vol. 16, Num. 1 (June 2024) , ISSN 1758-9193 |
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