Abstract:Objective To investigate the correlation between the expression of microRNA-4319 (miRNA-4319) and microRNA-4262 (miRNA-4262) in early gastric carcinoma tissue and postoperative recurrence after endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD).Methods From May 2018 to March 2020, 396 patients with early gastric carcinoma who underwent ESD were regarded as the disease group, meantime, 98 patients with normal gastric mucosa gastritis confirmed by pathological examination were as the control group. Quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) method was applied to detect the relative expression levels of miRNA-4319 and miRNA-4262 in tissues; follow up on postoperative recurrence of early gastric carcinoma patients, and the expression levels and clinical pathological characteristics of miRNA-4319 and miRNA-4262 were compared between recurrent and non recurrent patients. Multivariate Logistic regression analysis was applied to analyze the influencing factors of recurrence in early gastric carcinoma patients after ESD; receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC curve) was applied to analyze the predictive value of miRNA-4319 and miRNA-4262 in early gastric carcinoma tissue for recurrence after ESD.Results The expression levels of miRNA-4319 and miRNA-4262 in the disease group were lower than those in the control group, the differences were statistically significant (P < 0.05); The expression levels of miRNA-4319 and miRNA-4262 in the recurrence group were decreased, and the proportion of submucosal invasion was increased, the differences were statistically significant (P < 0.05). The depth of invasion to the submucosal level (OR^ = 3.158, 95%CI: 1.395 ~ 7.151) was a risk factor for recurrence after ESD in patients with early gastric carcinoma (P < 0.05), and miRNA-4262 ≥ 0.76 (OR^ = 0.561, 95%CI: 0.370 ~ 0.852) and miRNA-4319 ≥ 0.69 (OR^ = 0.482, 95%CI: 0.255 ~ 0.911) were protective factors for recurrence after ESD in patients with early gastric carcinoma (P < 0.05); The area under the curve (AUC) of miRNA-4319, miRNA-4262 and their combination for predicting recurrence after ESD in patients with early gastric carcinoma was 0.889 (95%CI: 0.854 ~ 0.918), 0.914 (95%CI: 0.882 ~ 0.940) and 0.964 (95%CI: 0.940 ~ 0.980), respectively, which was superior to the individual predictions of miRNA-4319 and miRNA-4262 respectively (P < 0.05).Conclusion MiRNA-4319 and miRNA-4262 are low expressed in tissues of early gastric carcinoma patients, they are closely related to postoperative recurrence after ESD.