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Significant relationship between preoperative serum concentration of anti-heat shock protein 70 antibody and postoperative morbidity in patients with esophageal cancer

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Background

Heat shock protein 70 is a molecular chaperone important in host responses to stress, including infection, injury, oxidative damage, hypoxia, and thermal stress. This study analyzed the correlation between preoperative serum concentrations of anti-HPS70 antibody and postoperative morbidity in patients with esophageal cancer.

Materials and methods

Serum samples were obtained preoperatively from 50 esophageal carcinoma patients (46 men and 4 women) who underwent potentially curative surgery without preoperative therapy. Serum anti-HSP70 antibody concentrations were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays.

Results

The mean concentration of anti-HSP70 antibody was 187.0 μg/mL. When patients were dichotomized relative to this cutoff, we observed no significant relationships between perioperative inflammatory markers (maximum body temperature, white blood cell count and C-reactive protein concentration) and anti-HSP70 antibody concentration. The incidence of postoperative complications was significantly lower in patients with anti-HSP ≥ 187.0 μg/mL than < 187.0 μg/mL (p = 0.0336).

Conclusions

Preoperative serum concentration of anti-HSP70 antibody was significantly related to postoperative morbidities in patients with esophageal cancer.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Ms. Hitomi Ozeki, Ms. Yuki Ohashi, and Ms. Nozomi Yuzawa for their excellent secretarial assistance.

Ethical standard statement

All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008.

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Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.

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Masanobu Nakajima, Hiroyuki Kato, Makoto Sakai, Akihiko Sano, Tatsuya Miyazaki, Makoto Sohda, Takanori Inose, Takehiko Yokobori, Naritaka Tanaka, Shigemasa Suzuki, Norihiro Masuda, Minoru Fukuchi, and Hiroyuki Kuwano declare no conflicts of interest.

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Nakajima, M., Kato, H., Sakai, M. et al. Significant relationship between preoperative serum concentration of anti-heat shock protein 70 antibody and postoperative morbidity in patients with esophageal cancer. Eur Surg 47, 117–122 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10353-015-0317-9

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