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- Title
Clinical and immunological characterisation of patients with common variable immunodeficiency related immune thrombocytopenia.
- Authors
Somasundaram, Nadia; Meyer, Oliver; Scheibenbogen, Carmen; Hanitsch, Leif Gunnar; Stittrich, Anna; Kölsch, Uwe; Wittke, Kirsten
- Abstract
Primary Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is an autoimmune disease. Secondary ITP occurs in patients with underlying diseases such as common variable immunodeficiency (CVID). CVID is one of the most common symptomatic primary immunodeficiencies in adults, characterised by infectious and non-infectious symptoms. Amongst CVID patients, ITP is the most frequent autoimmune manifestation. In this single-centre study, we performed a clinical and immunological characterisation of 20 patients with CVID-related ITP and 20 ITP patients without CVID to compare severity and remission rates. We found that patients with CVID-related ITP had a higher WHO Bleeding Scale at initial diagnosis yet showed higher remission rates and required less treatment. Patients with ITP needed up to seven therapy options and were often treated with second-line drug therapy, whilst only one CVID-related ITP patient required second-line drug therapy. Therefore, we show that the course of thrombocytopenia in patients with CVID-related ITP is milder. Furthermore, we show that soluble interleukin-2 receptor (sIL-2R, CD25) was higher in CVID-related ITP compared to ITP patients and could accurately classify patient cohorts with an Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic of 0.92. Whilst none of the ITP patients had a history of immunodeficiency, we found immunological abnormalities in 12 out of 18 patients. Therefore, we recommend screening ITP patients for CVID and other immunodeficiencies to detect immune abnormalities early, as we found patients with reduced immunoglobulin levels as well as severe lymphocytopenia in our ITP cohort.
- Subjects
COMMON variable immunodeficiency; IDIOPATHIC thrombocytopenic purpura; RECEIVER operating characteristic curves; PRIMARY immunodeficiency diseases
- Publication
Clinical & Experimental Medicine, 2023, Vol 23, Issue 8, p5423
- ISSN
1591-8890
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10238-023-01166-2