Rectal Nitric Oxide Gas and Stool Cytokine Levels during the Course of Infectious Gastroenteritis

AUTOR(ES)

Enocksson, Anders

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

Nitric oxide (NO) is known to be an important inflammatory mediator with a potential role in gastrointestinal diseases. We prospectively studied the luminal NO levels in 51 patients with infectious gastroenteritis, 35 patients with nonenteric bacterial infections, and 11 healthy control subjects. The levels of proinflammatory cytokines were simultaneously measured in the stools of patients with gastroenteritis. Rectal gas was sampled with balloon catheters made of silicone and was analyzed for NO levels by chemiluminescence. The median rectal NO level was 2,450 ppb in the acute phase of gastroenteritis and gradually decreased to 225 ppb after 3 to 8 weeks, whereas the median NO values were 150 ppb in patients with nonenteric bacterial infections and 100 ppb in healthy control subjects. Patients with Salmonella, Shigella, and Campylobacter infections generally had more severe symptoms and a higher median NO level (17,250 ppb) than patients with Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (median NO value, 275 ppb). Interleukin-1β levels were elevated in 82% of the patients at disease onset and decreased during the convalescent phase. In contrast, gamma interferon was detected in only 16% of the patients and was predominantly collected in stool samples collected during the subacute and convalescent stages. Our data point to the possibility of using this easy, minimally invasive method for luminal NO measurement as a diagnostic tool, among others, to evaluate the degree of intestinal inflammation in patients with infectious gastroenteritis.

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