Introduction
Materials and methods
Study subjects
Inclusion criteria and exclusion criteria
General clinical data
Pneumonia treatment plan
Main experimental instruments and experimental reagents
Main experimental instruments (Table 1)
Name of instrument | Brand / Company | Place of production |
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Fiberoptic bronchoscope | Olympus | Japan |
Endoscopic washing and disinfection workstation | Beijing Wanjin Zhaoyuan Disinfection Technology Co., LTD | China |
Normal temperature centrifuge | Thermo | America |
Refrigerated centrifuge | Thermo | America |
Purified water | Thermo | America |
Multiskan Spectrum Spectrophotomete | Epoch2 | America |
37℃ incubator | Thermo | America |
General refrigerator | Frectec | China |
-80° refrigerator | Thermo | America |
Main experimental reagents
Experimental methods
Collection of BALF and tracheal foreign body specimens
Detection of CCL2 in BALF
Reference range of CCL2 in children with mycoplasma pneumonia
Statistical analysis
Results
Comparison of clinical data and CCL2 in BALF between the study group (51 cases) and the control group (11 cases)
Clinical characteristics | The study group(n = 51) | The control group(n = 11) | χ2/Z | P |
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Gender (male / female) | 22/29 | 4/7 | 0. 170 | 0. 680 |
Age(‾x ± s, years old) | 6.2 ± 2.9 | 2.6 ± 2.2 | -3.478 | <0.001 |
Height(‾x ± s, cm) | 117.7 ± 22.6 | 88.9 ± 12.8 | -3.687 | <0.001 |
Body weight M(IQR), kg | 23(16, 28) | 13(12, 15) | -3.301 | <0.001 |
BMI M(IQR) | 15.9(14.3, 17.7) | 17.4(16.9, 18.5) | -1.760 | 0.079 |
CCL2(ng/mL) | 0.578(0.224, 1.066) | 0.188(0.038, 0.205) | -3.731 | <0.001 |
NE% | 69.2(77.8, 58.2) | 38.5(37.3, 56.4) | -3.713 | <0.001 |
CRP(mg/L) | 20.4(10.2, 69.3) | 0.36(0.20, 3.69) | -3.750 | <0.001 |
D-dimer(ug/ml) | 1.7(0.9, 4.1) | 0.6(0.4, 0.6) | -3.856 | <0.001 |
LDH(U/L) | 373(265, 509) | 286(234, 303) | -2.147 | 0.032 |
Comparison of clinical data and CCL2 in BALF between the RMPP group (20cases) and the NRMPP group (31cases)
Clinical characteristics | The RMPP group(n = 20) | The NRMPP group(n = 31) | Z | P |
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CCL2(ng/mL) | 1.518(0.690, 1.639) | 0.357(0.149, 0.577) | -5.267 | <0.001 |
Age(years old) | 7.0(6.1, 9.0) | 5.3(3.1, 7.0) | -2.783 | 0.005 |
NE% | 81.2(72.2, 87.2) | 63.5(48.8, 69.6) | -4.467 | <0.001 |
CRP(mg/L) | 96.3(19.3, 133.3) | 15.3(5.1, 23.2) | -3.781 | <0.001 |
D-dimer(ug/ml) | 4.35(2.35, 7.40) | 1.2(0.8, 1.7) | -4.325 | <0.001 |
LDH(U/L) | 562(439, 1036) | 293(231, 373) | -4.910 | <0.001 |
MONO% | 3.65(2.40, 5.58) | 5.2(3.7, 7.0) | -2.239 | 0.025 |
MONO(×109/L) | 0.34(0.20, 0.52) | 0.52(0.34, 0.63) | -2.374 | 0.018 |
Number of lung lobes invaded (lobe) | 2(1, 3) | 2(1, 2) | -1.478 | 0.139 |
Risk factor analysis related to RMPP
ROC curve analysis of predictive value of CCL2, serum CRP and LDH in BALF for RMPP
Indicators | AUC | 95%CI of AUC | Cut-off value | Youden index | Sensitivity (%) | Specificity (%) |
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CCL2(ng/mL) | 0.940 | 0.873 ~ 1.000 | 0.645 | 0.78 | 85 | 94 |
CRP(mg/L) | 0.816 | 0.678 ~ 0.955 | 56.2 | 0.65 | 65 | 100 |
LDH(U/L) | 0.910 | 0.825 ~ 0.996 | 397 | 0.71 | 90 | 81 |
Logistic Univariate regression analysis
Variable | b value | Standard error of b value | Wald Chi-square value | P value | OR value |
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Number of lung lobes invaded | 0.580 | 0.329 | 3.098 | 0.078 | 1.785 |
Duration of fever | 0.390 | 0.116 | 11.242 | 0.001 | 1.476 |
CCL2 | 6.323 | 2.220 | 8.113 | 0.004 | 557.311 |
Sextuple CCL2 | 1.054 | 0.370 | 8.113 | 0.004 | 2.869 |
Gender | 0.211 | 0.582 | 0.132 | 0.716 | 1.235 |
Pre-hospital disease course | -0.056 | 0.044 | 1.680 | 0.195 | 0.945 |
Time from disease onset to lavage | -0.027 | 0.038 | 0.486 | 0.486 | 0.974 |
MP antibody | 0.002 | 0.002 | 0.741 | 0.389 | 1.002 |
MP load in BALF | 0 | 0 | 0.793 | 0.373 | 1.0 |
Height | 2.948 | 1.466 | 4.040 | 0.044 | 19.061 |
Body weight | 0.030 | 0.025 | 1.484 | 0.223 | 1.031 |
BMI | -0.052 | 0.098 | 0.274 | 0.600 | 0.950 |
Age | 0.243 | 0.116 | 4.393 | 0.036 | 1.275 |
WBC | -0.054 | 0.065 | 0.697 | 0.404 | 0.947 |
NE% | 0.166 | 0.049 | 11.387 | 0.001 | 1.180 |
MONO | -3.771 | 1.676 | 5.065 | 0.024 | 0.023 |
MONO% | -0.321 | 0.154 | 4.330 | 0.037 | 0.725 |
Platelet count | -0.005 | 0.003 | 3.180 | 0.075 | 0.995 |
CRP | 0.050 | 0.017 | 8.672 | 0.003 | 1.051 |
LDH | 0.013 | 0.004 | 9.821 | 0.002 | 1.013 |
D-dimer | 0.773 | 0.237 | 10.608 | 0.001 | 2.167 |
Predictive model I of CCL2 level on RMPP in BALF (logistic multivariate regression analysis)
Variable | b value | Standard error of b value | Wald Chi-square value | P value | OR value |
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Duration of fever | 0.359 | 0.171 | 4.398 | 0.036 | 1.432 |
Sextuple CCL2 | 0.999 | 0.415 | 5.802 | 0.016 | 2.716 |
Number of lung lobes invaded | -0.278 | 0.739 | 0.141 | 0.707 | 0.758 |
MONO | -0.211 | 0.307 | 0.472 | 0.492 | 0.810 |
Constant | -7.267 | 3.282 | 4.903 | 0.027 | 0.001 |
Predictive model II of CCL2 level in BALF on RMPP (Nomogram)
Variable | b value | Standard error of b value | Wald Chi-square value | P value | OR value |
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Duration of fever | 0.340 | 0.163 | 4.336 | 0.037 | 1.405 |
Sextuple CCL2 | 1.038 | 0.431 | 5.811 | 0.016 | 2.824 |