Abstract:Objective To investigate the expression and clinical significance of serum miR-155 in patients with heart failure after staleness myocardial infarction. Methods Eighty patients with heart failure after staleness myocardial infarction were enrolled as heart failure group, 80 patients with myocardial infarction without heart failure were enrolled as myocardial infarction group, and 80 healthy residents were enrolled as control group. The level of serum miR-155 was determined by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). The left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), left ventricular posterior wall thickness (LVPW) and left ventricular end diastolic diameter (LVEDD) were measured by echocardiography. Results The levels of serum miR-155 in the heart failure group were higher than those in the control group and the myocardial infarction group (P < 0.05). The levels of serum miR- 155 in the myocardial infarction group were higher than those in the control group (P < 0.05). The area under the ROC curve of serum miR-155 for diagnosis of heart failure after myocardial infarction was 0.921 (95% CI: 0.842, 0.963), the critical value was 1.67, the sensitivity was 88.73% (95% CI: 0.375, 0.964), and the specificity was 92.14% (95% CI: 0.792, 0.976). There was no significant difference in the age, sex, fasting blood glucose (FPG), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), creatinine (Cr) and triglyceride (TG) between the miR-155 high expression group and the miR-155 low expression group (P > 0.05). The level of amino-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) in the miR-155 high expression group was higher than that in the miR-155 low expression group (P < 0.05). The LVEF of the miR-155 high expression group was lower than that of the miR-155 low expression group (P < 0.05), while the LVEDD was higher than that of the miR-155 low expression group (P < 0.05). There was no significant difference in LVPW between the two groups (P > 0.05). The proportion of patients with heart function ranged III to IV in the miR-155 high expression group was higher than that in the miR-155 low expression group (P < 0.05). Conclusions The serum miR-155 level is elevated in patients with heart failure after myocardial infarction. It is of great significance in the assessment of cardiac function and severity of heart failure after myocardial infarction.