Laboratory Medicine ›› 2025, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (9): 841-847.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-8640.2025.09.003

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Establishment of a risk assessment model for predicting the prognosis of patients with anti-MDA5 antibody-positive dermatomyositis complicated with interstitial pneumonia based on inflammatory indicators

YUAN Xiwei, WANG Yiwen, FEI Zhangli, HUANG Wan   

  1. Department of Rheumatology and Immunology,the First People's Hospital of Jiaxing,Jiaxing 314000,Zhejiang,China
  • Received:2024-06-26 Revised:2025-02-02 Online:2025-09-30 Published:2025-09-30

Abstract:

Objective To establish a nomogram model based on inflammatory indicators to predict the risk of poor prognosis in patients with anti-melanoma differentiation-associated gene 5(MDA5)antibody-positive dermatomyositis complicated with interstitial pneumonia,and to evaluate its efficacy. Methods A total of 107 patients with anti-MDA5 antibody-positive dermatomyositis complicated with interstitial pneumonia in the First People's Hospital of Jiaxing from February 2022 to October 2023 were enrolled. These patients were classified into good prognosis group(76 cases)and poor prognosis group(31 cases)based on the prognosis after 6 months of treatment. The clinical data were collected,and erythrocyte sedimentation rate(ESR)and the levels of serum ferritin(FER),C-reactive protein(CRP),interleukin-6(IL-6),albumin,as well as neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio(NLR),monocyte-to-lymphocyte ratio(MLR),systemic immune-inflammation index(SII)and C-reactive protein-to-albumin ratio(CAR)were performed and determined. Spearman correlation analysis was used to evaluate the correlation between each indicator and the poor prognosis of patients with anti-MDA5 antibody-positive dermatomyositis complicated with interstitial pneumonia. Multivariate Logistic regression analysis was used to evaluate the influencing factors of poor prognosis in patients with anti-MDA5 antibody-positive dermatomyositis complicated with interstitial pneumonia. A nomogram model was established. The efficiency of nomogram model was evaluated by receiver operating characteristic(ROC)curve,decision curve,calibration curve and Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test. Results The ESR,NLR,SII,FER,CRP and CAR in poor prognosis group were higher than those in good prognosis group(P<0.001),while there was no statistical significance in MLR and IL-6 between the 2 groups(P>0.05). Anti-MDA5 antibody +++,ESR,NLR,SII,FER,CRP and CAR were all positively correlated with the poor prognosis of patients with anti-MDA5 antibody-positive dermatomyositis complicated with interstitial pneumonia(P<0.05). SII,FER and CAR were independent risk factors for poor prognosis in patients with anti-MDA5 antibody-positive dermatomyositis complicated with interstitial pneumonia(P<0.05). Based on SII,FER and CAR,a nomogram model was established to predict the poor prognosis of patients with anti-MDA5 antibody-positive dermatomyositis complicated with interstitial pneumonia. The area under curve(AUC)of the nomogram model was 0.987. The fit of the nomogram model was high(Hosmer-Lemeshow χ2=1.983,p=0.982),and the clinical net benefit was >0 within the threshold probability range of 0 to 0.99,with the maximum net benefit value of 0.27. Conclusions The nomogram model established based on SII,FER and CAR has a high clinical efficacy in evaluating the prognosis of patients with anti-MDA5 antibody-positive dermatomyositis complicated with interstitial pneumonia.

Key words: Anti-melanoma differentiation-associated gene 5 antibody, Inflammatory indicator, Dermatomyositis, Interstitial pneumonia, Prognosis assessment

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