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Objective <p>Intravenous glucocorticoids are the first-line therapy for moderate-to-severe active thyroid eye disease (TED), but some patients demonstrate steroid resistance. Therefore, identifying reliable pre-treatment biomarkers to predict the therapeutic response to intravenous glucocorticoids is of considerable clinical importance.</p> Methods <p>In the discovery phase, pre-treatment serum samples from 10 patients with TED treated with intravenous glucocorticoids (six responders, four non-responders), along with samples from three patients with Graves’ disease without TED and three healthy controls, were subjected to data-independent acquisition proteomics analysis. Candidate biomarkers were validated in an expanded cohort (21 responders, 10 non-responders, 14 Graves’ disease patients, and 14 healthy controls).</p> Results <p>Data-independent acquisition proteomics analysis revealed 263 differentially abundance proteins between responders and non-responders. Among them, transforming growth factor-β, heparanase, and fibrinogen-like protein 2 were identified as potential biomarker candidates. In the validation phase, only fibrinogen-like protein 2 was significantly elevated in non-responders. Although fibrinogen-like protein 2 alone achieved an area under the curve of 0.76, Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator regression incorporating clinical parameters identified smoking and high thyroid-stimulating antibody as additional predictors. A three-factor scoring system (fibrinogen-like protein 2 &gt; 39.5 ng/mL, thyroid-stimulating antibody &gt; 2597%, and current smoking; each 1 point) yielded an area under the curve of 0.86, with good reproducibility in bootstrap validation.</p> Conclusions <p>Elevated pre-treatment serum fibrinogen-like protein 2 is a promising biomarker for predicting steroid resistance in TED. Combining fibrinogen-like protein 2 with thyroid-stimulating antibody and current smoking provides a clinically useful scoring system to guide personalized treatment.</p>

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A preliminary study developing a scoring model incorporating fibrinogen-like protein 2 for predicting glucocorticoid resistance in thyroid eye disease

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    2026年4月1日

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  • Kazuhiko Matsuzawa,
  • Shoichiro Izawa,
  • Kanako Kadowaki,
  • Kenji Fukaya,
  • Kazuhisa Matsumoto,
  • Keiko Nagata,
  • Tsuyoshi Okura,
  • Shinya Fujii,
  • Dai Miyazaki,
  • Shin-Ichi Taniguchi,
  • Kazuhiro Yamamoto,
  • Takeshi Imamura

摘要

Objective

Intravenous glucocorticoids are the first-line therapy for moderate-to-severe active thyroid eye disease (TED), but some patients demonstrate steroid resistance. Therefore, identifying reliable pre-treatment biomarkers to predict the therapeutic response to intravenous glucocorticoids is of considerable clinical importance.

Methods

In the discovery phase, pre-treatment serum samples from 10 patients with TED treated with intravenous glucocorticoids (six responders, four non-responders), along with samples from three patients with Graves’ disease without TED and three healthy controls, were subjected to data-independent acquisition proteomics analysis. Candidate biomarkers were validated in an expanded cohort (21 responders, 10 non-responders, 14 Graves’ disease patients, and 14 healthy controls).

Results

Data-independent acquisition proteomics analysis revealed 263 differentially abundance proteins between responders and non-responders. Among them, transforming growth factor-β, heparanase, and fibrinogen-like protein 2 were identified as potential biomarker candidates. In the validation phase, only fibrinogen-like protein 2 was significantly elevated in non-responders. Although fibrinogen-like protein 2 alone achieved an area under the curve of 0.76, Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator regression incorporating clinical parameters identified smoking and high thyroid-stimulating antibody as additional predictors. A three-factor scoring system (fibrinogen-like protein 2 > 39.5 ng/mL, thyroid-stimulating antibody > 2597%, and current smoking; each 1 point) yielded an area under the curve of 0.86, with good reproducibility in bootstrap validation.

Conclusions

Elevated pre-treatment serum fibrinogen-like protein 2 is a promising biomarker for predicting steroid resistance in TED. Combining fibrinogen-like protein 2 with thyroid-stimulating antibody and current smoking provides a clinically useful scoring system to guide personalized treatment.