Ischemia-modified Albumin to Evaluate Short-term Prognostic of Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome

In patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), the predicted short-term result of ischemic modified albumin (IMA) is still not recognised now. The above have been searched in PubMed, Embase, Medline, Cochrane Library databases, and Wanfang databases from the beginning to June 2020. The study explored that patients with positive of IMA had differences in short-term results compared to negative of IMA. Odds ratios for each study was compiled and conducted for heterogeneity assessment, quality review, publication bias. A total of 684 patients (405 positive patients; 279 negative patients) were included in four studies. Comprehensive analysis found that compared with the negative of IMA in patients with ACS, the positive of IMA in patients with ACS had a high incidence of major cardiovascular adverse events (MACE) (HR 1.85; p=0.03), but there was no significant difference in the occurrence of cardiac death (HR 4.40; p = 0.16). It was concluded that the positive of IMA in patients with ACS is associated with an increased incidence of MACE, but there was no statistically significant difference in incidence of cardiac death. Due to the limited data coming from different research groups in different countries, the diagnostic criteria for the IMA cut-off may be different. Future large randomised controlled trials will be certainly needed to confirm these findings.