Saleh Ghiasy1, Leila Parvaneh1, Gholamreza Azizi1,2, Ghazal Sadri1, Majid Zaki Dizaji1, Hassan Abolhassani1,3, Asghar Aghamohammadi1. 1. a Research Center for Immunodeficiencies, Pediatrics Center of Excellence, Children's Medical Center , Tehran University of Medical Sciences , Tehran , Iran. 2. b Department of Laboratory Medicine, Imam Hassan Mojtaba Hospital , Alborz University of Medical Sciences , Karaj , Iran. 3. c Division of Clinical Immunology, Department of Laboratory Medicine , Karolinska Institutet at Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge , Stockholm , Sweden.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Ataxia telangiectasia (AT) is a primary immunodeficiency associated with recurrent infections. We aimed to investigate clinical and immunological classification in AT patients who suffer from a different spectrum of humoral immune defects. METHODS: AT patients were categorized according to the ability of class switching and patients with hyper IgM (HIgM) profile were defined as class switching defect (CSD). RESULTS: Serum immunoglobulin profile in 66 AT patients showed normal immunoglobulin level (22.8%), IgA deficiency (37.9%) and hypogammaglobulinemia (18.1%) in the majority of patients, while 21.2% had HIgM profile revealing CSD. CSD does not affect the frequency of infections, however, the frequency of lymphoproliferation (p < 0.001), and autoimmunity (p = 0.004) were significantly higher in this group. Neurologic symptoms in CSD patients are mild or appear after recurrent infections, therefore these patients were usually misdiagnosed as HIgM syndrome. CONCLUSIONS: Although most of AT patients have reduced IgA levels or normal immunoglobulin levels, but a fraction of these patients may show CSD ensuing HIgM-profile. CSD poses affected individuals at higher risk of non-infectious complications.
BACKGROUND:Ataxia telangiectasia (AT) is a primary immunodeficiency associated with recurrent infections. We aimed to investigate clinical and immunological classification in AT patients who suffer from a different spectrum of humoral immune defects. METHODS: AT patients were categorized according to the ability of class switching and patients with hyper IgM (HIgM) profile were defined as class switching defect (CSD). RESULTS: Serum immunoglobulin profile in 66 AT patients showed normal immunoglobulin level (22.8%), IgA deficiency (37.9%) and hypogammaglobulinemia (18.1%) in the majority of patients, while 21.2% had HIgM profile revealing CSD. CSD does not affect the frequency of infections, however, the frequency of lymphoproliferation (p < 0.001), and autoimmunity (p = 0.004) were significantly higher in this group. Neurologic symptoms in CSDpatients are mild or appear after recurrent infections, therefore these patients were usually misdiagnosed as HIgM syndrome. CONCLUSIONS: Although most of AT patients have reduced IgA levels or normal immunoglobulin levels, but a fraction of these patients may show CSD ensuing HIgM-profile. CSD poses affected individuals at higher risk of non-infectious complications.
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Ataxia telangiectasia; IgA deficiency; class switching defect; humoral immune defects; hyper IgM syndrome; hypogammaglobulinemia; immune deficiency; infection
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