Abstract:Objective To investigate the relationship between serum galectin-3 (Gal-3) expression and prognosis of diabetic foot after interventional therapy.Methods The study was carried out on 80 diabetic foot patients admitted to our hospital from March 2016 to December 2018. Digital subtraction angiography (DSA) was performed 6 months after interventional therapy to evaluate the vascular restenosis, based on which the patients were divided into restenosis group and non-restenosis group. The general data, white blood cell (WBC) count, serum C-reactive protein (CRP), serum procalcitonin (PCT), and serum Gal-3 were compared between the two groups of patients. Multivariate Logistic regression was used to analyze the influencing factors of restenosis after interventional therapy. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was applied to analyze the predictive value of serum Gal-3 for the prognosis of diabetic foot after interventional therapy.Results There was no significant difference in gender, age, course of disease, ulcer area, and ulcer history between the non-restenosis group and the restenosis group (P > 0.05). The restenosis group showed higher serum levels of Gal-3, WBC count, CRP and PCT, and the proportion of Grade-Ⅲ diabetic foot of Wagner classification, but lower incidence of osteomyelitis and limb ischemia compared with non-restenosis group (P < 0.05). The multivariate Logistic regression analysis showed that the grade of diabetic foot of Wagner classification [R = 3.116 (95% CI: 1.279, 7.591)], limb ischemia [R=8.749 (95% CI: 1.895, 40.393)], serum CRP [R = 5.521 (95% CI: 1.303, 23.393)], serum PCT [R=6.359 (95% CI: 1.804, 22.415)], and serum Gal-3 [R=7.962 (95% CI: 1.636, 38.749)] were the influencing factors of vascular restenosis after interventional therapy of diabetic foot (P < 0.05). The area under the ROC curve of serum Gal-3 in predicting vascular restenosis after interventional therapy of diabetic foot was 0.885 (95% CI: 0.799, 0.960). The optimal cut-off value of serum Gal-3 was 5.78 ng/ml, with the sensitivity and specificity being highest and reaching 0.875 (95% CI: 0.751, 0.943) and 0.719 (95% CI: 0.629, 0.893), respectively.Conclusions The serum Gal-3 level is an influencing factor for the prognosis of diabetic foot after interventional therapy. The detection of serum Gal-3 is conducive to predicting the risk of vascular restenosis after interventional therapy of diabetic foot.