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A young adult presents with chronic large joint oligoarthritis and fever Diagnosed case of common variable immunodeficiency in view of recurrent respiratory tract infections Not on IVIG Mycoplasma isolated by special cultures Responds to antibiotics
- An 8 year old child presenting with subacute onset irritability, fever, myositis, facial rash fits into dermatomyositis - Initiated on high dose steroids, and methotrexate, later azoran..no improvement - Seizures and progressive deterioration - IVIg leads to improvement gradually - Enterovirus isolated - H/o recurrent ear and chest infections - Enterovirus induced pseudo- dermatmyositis ?
A 6 year old female child presents with h/o recurrent infections, bronchiectasis, normal IgG levels, poor antibody response, normal mitogen induced T cell response, relative low B cell, T cell (CD4 & CD8) count Recurrent infections- stabilized on IVIG, later stopped Later polyarthritis, bronchitis- non infective work up, no response to IVIG, response to steroids Autoimmune workup suggestive of SLE Recurrent flares including arthritis, pancytopenia- no evidence of infection No response to IVIG, some reduction in infections, intolerating MMF and Azoran Finally good response to rituximab and IVIG !
Points to be discussed
1. Briefly types of gammaglobulins, their functions 2. When one is said to have hypogammaglobulinemia (hypoIg) ? 3. Primary hypoIg and arthritis, pathophysiology 4. Primary hypoIg and other autoimmune diseases 5. CVID & SLE 6. Secondary hypoIg 7. Drugs causing hypoIg 8. Approach to evaluation of hypoIg in rheumatology 9. Treatment of patients with hypoIg 10. Impact on our practice ? - Take home messages
Immunoglobulins
PIDs typically manifest as recurrent infections that usually start in childhood. Among the other clinical manifestations, some are both highly specific and rare, whereas others are more common. Bone and joint abnormalities fall into latter category. They can arise from a variety of mechanisms and occur chiefly in humoral PIDs. Joint manifestations are more common than bone involvement and usually consist in arthralgia, although arthritis is relatively frequent. Joint manifestations occur chiefly in patients with humoral PIDs A few cases of arthritis have been reported in patients with chronic granulomatous disease, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome or cellular or SCID syndromes
In patients with humoral PID, the prevalence of joint manifestations before treatment has ranged across studies from 5% to 40%. Hansel et al identified 7 cases of monoarthritis and 1 case of oligoarthritis among 69 patients with agammaglobulinemia, as well as 1 case of monoarthritis and seven cases of oligoarthritis among 161 patients with CVID.
Hansel TT, Haeny MR, Thompson RA. Primary hypogammaglobulinemia and arthritis. BMJ 1987 Bone and joint disease associated with primary immune deficiencies Joint Bone Spine 72 (2005)
Septic arthritis
Encapsulated organisms (Streptococci, Staph., H.influenzae) Viruses (enterovirus 11 and adenovirus 1) Mycoplasma arthritis
Ackerson BK, Raghunathan R, Keller MA. Echovirus 11 arthritis in a patient with X-linked agammaglobulinemia. Pediatr Infect Dis 1987 Fraser KJ, Clarris BJ, Muirden KD. A persistent adenovirus type 1 infection in synovial tissue from an immunodeficient patient with chronic rheumatoid-like polyarthritis. Arthritis Rheum 1985
Secondary Hypogammaglobulinemia
1) Excess loss - GI loss - Nephrotic syndrome 2) Decreased production - Drugs - Malignancies - Infections - Severe malnutrition
Drugs
Corticosteroids 1. Usually CD4+ lymphopenia classical but, may also induce hypoIg 2. Generally the episodes are moderately severe and essentially concern IgG (IgG1 in particular). 3. These deficiencies have been reported in all types of corticosteroid therapy: low-dose long-term therapy (> 5mg/d for more than 2 years) or high-dose short-term therapy. 4. The prevalence o hypoIg in these populations was around 12 to 17%. 5. The mechanism is still unclear, corticosteroids may increase catabolism and reduce the synthesis of Ig via their action on intracellular pathways. 6. It seems that the infectious consequences of this deficiency are slight, even though there is sometimes an impaired response to vaccines, notably anti-pneumococcal vaccine .
References
Cyclophosphamide Many case reports. Prevalence with low dose cyclophosphmaide ? Antiepileptics and in particular carbamazepine , phenytoin and clonazepam. The deficiency affects all classes of Ig and is usually reversible and disappears with cessation of the treatment. Complication due to infections are generally rare. D-penicillamine, gold salts and sulfasalazine. They principally cause IgA deficiency, but hypogammaglobulinemia has also been described, often with no clinically important consequences. Methotrexate - ?risk attributed-incidence very low?consequence Rituximab 10-40%, increase with repeat dosing
References
Impact of Rituximab on Immunoglobulin Concentrations and B Cell Numbers after Cyclophosphamide Treatment in Patients with ANCA-Associated Vasculitides Plos one 2011 20% of patients required Ig replacement
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