Electrophoresis, Vol.28, No.9, 1435-1443, 2007
Screening for biomarkers in plasma from patients with gangrenous and phlegmonous appendicitis using CE and CEC in combination with MS
Today a high degree of "false" appendicitis diagnoses are occurring. In this study, a screening experiment of biomarkers of two different kinds of appendicitis, gangrenous and phlegmonous, were conducted with CE and CEC coupled to MS. Plasma samples were obtained from patients pre- and post-surgery. A large amount of data was generated to be able to compare them, and chemometrics tools were utilized to visualize the differences. Indicative patterns were found for both pre- and post-surgery of the two types of inflammation as well as between them. The divergences were traced back to the MS peaks obtained in the CE-and CEC-MS setups as possible biomarkers for the two forms of appendicitis.
Keywords:appendicitis;biomarker;Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance-MS;open tubular CEC;TOF-MS