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- Title
Bowel Histology of CVID Patients Reveals Distinct Patterns of Mucosal Inflammation.
- Authors
van Schewick, Cornelia M.; Lowe, David M.; Burns, Siobhan O.; Workman, Sarita; Symes, Andrew; Guzman, David; Moreira, Fernando; Watkins, Jennifer; Clark, Ian; Grimbacher, Bodo
- Abstract
Diarrhea is the commonest gastrointestinal symptom in patients with common variable immunodeficiency (CVID). Different pathologies in patients' bowel biopsies have been described and links with infections have been demonstrated. The aim of this study was to analyze the bowel histology of CVID patients in the Royal-Free-Hospital (RFH) London CVID cohort. Ninety-five bowel histology samples from 44 adult CVID patients were reviewed and grouped by histological patterns. Reasons for endoscopy and possible causative infections were recorded. Lymphocyte phenotyping results were compared between patients with different histological features. There was no distinctive feature that occurred in most diarrhea patients. Out of 44 patients (95 biopsies), 38 lacked plasma cells. In 14 of 21 patients with nodular lymphoid hyperplasia (NLH), this was the only visible pathology. In two patients, an infection with Giardia lamblia was associated with NLH. An IBD-like picture was seen in two patients. A coeliac-like picture was found in six patients, four of these had norovirus. NLH as well as inflammation often occurred as single features. There was no difference in blood lymphocyte phenotyping results comparing groups of histological features. We suggest that bowel histology in CVID patients with abdominal symptoms falls into three major histological patterns: (i) a coeliac-like histology, (ii) IBD-like changes, and (iii) NLH. Most patients, but remarkably not all, lacked plasma cells. CVID patients with diarrhea may have an altered bowel histology due to poorly understood and likely diverse immune-mediated mechanisms, occasionally driven by infections.
- Subjects
COMMON variable immunodeficiency; HISTOLOGY; PLASMA cells; GIARDIA lamblia; INTESTINAL diseases; INFLAMMATION
- Publication
Journal of Clinical Immunology, 2022, Vol 42, Issue 1, p46
- ISSN
0271-9142
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10875-021-01104-5