Prediction of Outcomes in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure Based on Tissue Raman Spectroscopy

Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a syndrome complicating heart disease, the prevalence of which has reached epidemic levels. According to global statistics the most common causes of CHF are coronary heart disease (CHD): 26.5%, arterial hypertension (AH):26.2% . The category of patients with CHD complicated by CHF prevails in clinical practice, requiring an optimized approach to determining prognosis in order to improve the effectiveness of therapy. In the literature, this issue has been studied with the use of general clinical, biochemical, instrumental criteria. Nevertheless, the problem of optimized prognosis in patients with CHF remains. Its solution may lie in the study of metabolic parameters of biological media - skin, blood serum by Raman spectroscopy. Skin is an accessible tissue for studying the effects of a wide range of age-dependent noncommunicable diseases, including cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and chronic kidney disease. We were one of the first to use skin RS as a method of determining renal dysfunction, a necessary component of chronic kidney disease. However, the applicability of RS/SERS in the diagnosis and prognosis of specific diseases, as well as in the collection of statistical data for this analytical approach, remains an open question . Despite the fact that the method is classified as analytical, it can be used to identify not so much specific chemical molecules as their specific loci, which provide vibrations that change the wavelengths of the scattered spectrum. The resulting spectrum can be presented as a metabolic "portrait" of the disease, with the most informative loci, the combination of which is associated with a negative prognosis. The innovative analytical methods of optical spectroscopy proposed in this project provide new level information about hundreds of molecules and their active centers that have prospects as biomarkers. This study aims to determine the clinical relevance of skin and serum RS in patient