Abstract:Objective To investigate the prognostic value of combined detection of serum soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 1 (sTREM-1), procalcitonin (PCT) and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) in elderly patients with severe pneumonia (SP).Methods A total of 127 elderly SP patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University from February 2019 to January 2022 were selected. The 28-day survival of elderly SP patients after being admitted to ICU was observed, and they were thus divided into survival group and death group according to their survival status. The clinical data of the survival group and the death group were compared. Multivariable Cox regression analysis was performed to determine factors affecting the prognosis of elderly SP patients. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was plotted, and the area under the ROC curve (AUC) was used to evaluate the predictive value of serum sTREM-1, PCT, BNP and their combination for the prognosis of elderly SP patients.Results There was no difference in the gender composition, age, body mass index (BMI), time of ICU admission, body temperature, presence of underlying diseases, history of smoking, history of alcohol consumption, mechanical ventilation, white blood cell count, or the levels of albumin and blood lactic acid (P > 0.05). The proportion of multilobar pneumonia, Pneumonia Severity Index (PSI), and the levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), interleukin-6 (IL-6), interleukin-18 (IL-18), sTREM-1, PCT and BNP in the death group were higher than those in the survival group (P < 0.05). Multivariable Cox regression analysis showed that multilobar pneumonia [H^R = 2.901 (95% CI: 1.335, 6.305) ], PSI [H^R = 2.807 (95% CI: 1.024, 4.859) ], sTREM-1 [H^R = 3.370 (95% CI: 2.659, 8.537) ], PCT [H^R = 3.155 (95% CI: 2.054, 7.843) ] and BNP [H^R = 2.998 (95% CI: 1.786, 7.052) ] were factors affecting the death of elderly SP patients (P < 0.05). The results of ROC curve analysis revealed that the sensitivity of BNP, and the specificity and AUC of the combined detection were the highest, with them being 72.22% (95% CI: 0.546, 0.852), 95.60% (95% CI: 0.885, 0.986), and 0.902 (95% CI: 0.837, 0.948), respectively.Conclusions The combination of serum sTREM-1, PCT, and BNP exhibits high efficacy in evaluating the prognosis of elderly SP patients, and can be established as a reference for clinical evaluation of the prognosis of these patients.