Role of enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants among Egyptian neonatal sepsis

AbstractNeonatal sepsis is among the major causes of neonatal death. Oxidative stress is involved in detrimental pathways activated during neonatal sepsis, eventually leading to organ dysfunction and death. Reaching a definitive early diagnosis of neonatal sepsis is often challenging, as causative microbes typically require several days of blood culturing. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants as early predictive biomarkers of neonatal sepsis and as predictors of disease outcome. For the purposes of this study, 100 neonates were recruited from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University: 70 with sepsis (group 1) and 30 age and gender-matched neonates without sepsis, comprising the control group (group 2). The activities of glutathione peroxidase (GPX), glutathione reductase (GR), catalase (CAT), albumin, serum uric acid (SUA), and creatine phosphokinase (CPK) were measured. Serum levels of albumin and SUA were significantly lower among group 1 compared with group 2 (P <  0.001), with OR, 0.035 (95% CI, 0.007–0.174) for SUA. Conversely, serum GPX, CAT, and CPK were found to be significantly higher among group 1 (P <  0.05), with an OR of 1.02 (95% CI, 1.007–1.04) for CAT. Results suggested that serum albumin, SUA, GPX, CAT, and CPK could effectively function as early diagnostic biomarkers of neonatal sepsis and indicated an association between low albumin levels and poor disease ...
Source: Comparative Clinical Pathology - Category: Pathology Source Type: research