Ch80: Disorders of Granulocytes and Monocytes Flashcards

for 63: Leukocytosis and Leukopenia

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Major cells comprising the inflammatory and immune responses, including neutrophils, T and B lymphocytes, natural killer (NK) cells, monocytes, eosinophils, and basophils

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Leukocytes

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Normal blood leukocyte counts and their components

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Normal blood leukocyte ct: 4.3-10.8 x 10^9/L

Neutrophils: 45-74%
Bands: 0-4%
Lymphocytes: 16-45%
Monocytes: 4-10%
Eosinophils: 0-7%
Basophils: 0-2%
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Regulates the leukocyte maturation

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  1. Colony stimulating factors (CSFs)

2. Interleukins (ILs)

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Presence of immature cells is termed as?

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Shift to the left

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Stage of neutrophil development where classic lysosomal granules, called primary, or azurophil, granules are produced

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Promyelocyte

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The first recognizable precursor cell in the stage of neutrophil development

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Myeloblast

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Primary granules in promyelocyte are active against which type of pathogens?

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Gram negative bacteria, fungi, enveloped viruses

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Family of cysteine-rich polypeptides with broad antimicrobial activity against bacteria, fungi, and enveloped viruses which are contained on Azurophil granules

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Defensins

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Stages of neutrophil development (increasing maturity)

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  1. Myeloblast (prominent nucleoli)
  2. Promyelocyte (primary granules appear)
  3. Myelocyte (secondary granules appear)
  4. Metamyelocyte (kidney bean-shaped nucleus)
  5. Band form (condensed, band-shaped nucleus/sausage-shaped nucleus)
  6. Neutrophil (condensed, multilobed nucleus)

Fig 80-2, p. 414

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Cell responsible for the synthesis of the specific, or secondary granules that do not function as lysosomes (unlike primary granules), but instead is important in modulating inflammation

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Myelocyte

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Nucleus of neutrophils normally contain up to 4 segments. MORE THAN 5 lobes suggests what?

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  1. Folate or Vitamin B12 deficiency

2. Congenital neutrophenia syndrome of warts, hypogammaglobulinemia, infections, and myelokathexis (WHIM)

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Infrequent dominant benign inherited trait, resulting in neutrophils with distinctive BILOBED NUCLEI

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Pelger-Huet anomaly

Nucleus has spectacle-like, or “pince-nez” configuration
Fig 80-5, p. 415

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Immature or abnormally staining azurophil granules produced in severe acute bacterial infection; prominent neutrophil cytoplasmic granules

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Toxic granulations

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Cytoplasmic inclusions seen during infection and are fragments of ribosome-rich endoplasmic reticulum

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Dohle bodies

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Where is the large reserve of neutrophils located?

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Bone marrow (90%)

Circulation: 2-3%, others: tissues

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Glycoproteins expressed on neutrophils and endothelial cells that cause a low-affinity interaction resulting in “rolling” of the neutrophil along the endothelial surface

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Selectins

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Leukocyte glycoproteins that enables the neutrophils to “stick” to the endothelium

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Integrins

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Process of neutrophil migration or crawling of neutrophils between postcapillary endothelial cells into tissues

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Diapedesis

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Diapedesis involves what type of molecule?

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platelet/endothelial cell adhesion molecule (PECAM) 1 (CD 31)

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Examples of anaphylatoxins

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  1. C3a

2. C5a

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Examples of vasodilators

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  1. Histamine
  2. Bradykinin
  3. Serotonin
  4. Nitric oxide
  5. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)
  6. Prostaglandin E and I
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Half-life of neutrophil in circulation

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6-7 hours

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Where do senescent neutrophils cleared from circulation by macrophages?

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Lung

Spleen

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Duration at which neutrophils die in the tissues

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1-4 days

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Factors that prolong the lifespan of neutrophils

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Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF)

IFN-y

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In delayed type hypersensitivity, how long does monocyte accumulation occur

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Within 6-12 hours of initiation of inflammation

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Confers the characteristic green color to pus and may participate in turning off the inflammatory process by inactivating chemoattractants and immobilizing phagocytic cells

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Myeloperoxidase

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In the presence of fibrinogen, what induces IL-8 production by neutrophils providing autocrine amplification of inflammation

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f-met-leu-phe OR Leukotriene B4

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Four major groups of chemokines recognized based on cysteine structure near N terminus

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  1. C (lymphotactin)
  2. CC (MIP-1)
  3. CXC (IL-8)
  4. CXXXC (Fractalkine)
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What neutrophil count increases the susceptibility to infectious diseases?

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Below 1000 cells/uL

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Level of ANC where control of endogenous microbial flora is impaired

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ANC <500/uL

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ANC level at which the local inflammatory process is absent

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ANC <200/uL

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Causes of neutropenia

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  1. Depressed production
  2. Increased peripheral destruction
  3. Excessive peripheral pooling
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Cancer chemotherapy can produce what type of neutrophil disorder?

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Acute neutropenia

With increased risk of infection vs chronic neutropenia

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Most common cause of neutropenia

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Iatrogenic

Due to cytotoxic or immunosuppresive therapies for malignancy or control of autoimmune disorders

Decrease production of rapidly growing progenitor (stem) cells of the marrow

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Drugs that can cause NEUTROPENIA by inhibiting myeloid precursors

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  1. Chloramphenicol
  2. Co-trimoxazole
  3. Flucytosine
  4. Vidarabine
  5. Zidovudine
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Drugs can induce immune-mediated peripheral destruction of neutrophil precursors which can be seen within 7 days of exposure to drug. Most frequent causes are:

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  1. Sulfa-containing compounds
  2. Penicillins
  3. Cephalosporins
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Treatment for drug-induced neutropenia

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Discontinuation of offending drug

Recovery within 5-7 days and complete by 10 days

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Autoimmune neutropenia caused by circulating antineutrophil antibodies are caused by this condition::

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Viral infections including HIV

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Management for autoimmune neutropenia

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  1. Glucocorticoids
  2. Cyclosporine
  3. Methotrexate
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Congenital form of neutropenia

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  1. Kostmann’s syndrome (neutrophil ct <100/uL)
    GENE: antiapoptosis gene HAX-1
  2. Severe chronic neutropenia (300-1500/uL)
    MUTATION: neutrophil elastase (ELANE)
  3. Cyclic hematopoiesis
  4. Shwachman-Diamond syndrome
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Pancreatic insuffiency due to mutations in the gene Shwachman-Bodian-Diamond syndrome gene

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Shwachman-Diamond syndrome

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Syndrome characterized by neutrophil hypersegmentation and bone marrow myeloid arrest due to mutations in the chemokine receptor CXCR4

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WHIM

Warts, hypogammaglobulinemia, infections, myelokathexis (retention of wbc in marrow)

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Drug when ingested during pregnancy can cause neutropenia in newborn by either depressed production or peripheral destruction

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Thiazides

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Triad of rheumatoid arthritis, splenomegaly, and neutropenia

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Felty’s syndrome

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Mechanisms of neutrophilia

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  1. Increased production
  2. Increased marrow release
  3. Defective margination
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Most important acute cause of neutrophilia

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Infection

Increased production + Increased marrow release

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Term for persistent neutrophilia (>30,000-50,000/uL) seen in leukemia where circulating neutrophils are usually mature and not clonally derived

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Leukemoid reaction

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Causes of neutrophilia

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  1. Infection
  2. Chronic inflammation
  3. Myeloproliferative diseases
  4. Glucocorticoids
  5. Exercise, excitement, stress
  6. Cigarette smoking

Table 80-2, p. 418

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Types of Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency (LAD) and their clinical manifestations

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Type 1 : Delayed separation of umbilical cord, sustained neutrophilia, recurrent infections of skin and mucosa, gingivitis, periodontal disease (MC bacteria: Staph aureus, enteric gram(-) bacteria)

Type 2 : Mental retardation, short stature, Bombay (hh) blood phenotype, recurrent infections, neutrophilia

Type 3: Petechial hemorrhage, recurrent infections

Table 80-4, p. 420

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Also known as congenital disorder of glycosylation IIc (CDGIIc) due to mutation in a GDP-fucose transporter (SLC35C1)

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Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency 2 (LAD 2)

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Most common neutrophil defect; primary granule defect inherited as autosomal recessive trate

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Myeloperoxidase deficiency

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A rare disease with autosomal recessive inheritance due to defects in the lysosomal transport protein LYST (gene CHS1 at lq42)

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Chediak-Higashi syndrome (CHS)

Genetics: Autosomal Recessive
Clinical: Recurrent pyogenic infections esp with S. aureus
Defect: Reduced chemotaxis and phagolysosome fusion, CHS1 gene
Diagnosis: Giant primary granules in neutrophils (Wright’s stain); genetic detection

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Group of disorders of granulocyte and monocyte oxidative metabolism and an important model of defective neutrophil oxidative metabolism

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Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD)

Genetics: X-linked recessive trait (70%)
Clinical: Severe infection of skin, ears, lungs, liver and bone with catalase-positive microorganisms (S. aureus, B. cepacia, Aspergillus)
Defect: No respiratory burst due to lack of one of 5 NADPH oxidase subunits in neutrophils, monocytes, eosinophils
Diagnosis: Dihydrorhodamine (oxidation test) OR nitroblue tetrazolium (dye test); genetic detection

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T or F: Macrophages are not only phagocytic, but secretory cells that produce cytokines (TNF-a, IL1, IL8, IL12, IL18)

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True

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Cytokine that initiates fever in hypothalamus, mobilize leukocytes from bone marrow and activates lymphocytes and neutrophils

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IL-1

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Pyrogen important in pathogenesis of gram-negative shock and induces catabolic changes contributing to profound wasting (cachexia) in chronic diseases

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TNF-alpha

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Some conditions associated with MONOCYTOSIS

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  1. Tuberculosis
  2. Brucellosis
  3. Subacute bacterial endocarditis
  4. Rocky Mountain spotted fever
  5. Malaria
  6. Visceral leishmaniasis (kala azar)
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Mutation in TNF-a receptor characterized by recurrent fever in the absence of infection, due to persistent stimulation of TNF-a receptor

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TNF-a receptor-associated periodic syndrome (TRAPS)

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Syndrome of Pyoderma gangrenosum, Acne, and sterile Pyogenic Arthritis caused by mutation in PSTPIP1

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PAPA syndrome

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Conditions associated with MONOCYTOPENIA

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  1. Acute infections
  2. Stress
  3. After treatment with glucocorticoids
  4. Due to myelotoxic drugs

Diseases

  1. Aplastic anemia
  2. Hairy cell leukemia
  3. AML
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Definition of EOSINOPHILIA

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Presence of >500 eosinophils per uL of blood common in many settings besides parasite infection

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Common cause of EOSINOPHILIA

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Allergic reaction to drugs

Iodides, ASA, sulfas, nitrofurantoin, penicillins, cephalosporins

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Other causes of eosinophilia

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  1. Allergies
  2. Collagen vascular diseases (RA, periarteritis nodosa)
  3. Malignancy (Hodgkin’s disease, mycosis fungoides, CML, CA of lung, stomach, pancreas, overy, uterus)
  4. Helminthic infections
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Dominant eosinophil growth factor inhibited by monoclonal antibody Mepolizumab

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IL-5

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Most dramatic hypereosinophilic syndromes

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Loeffler's syndrome
Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia
Loeffler's endocarditis
Eosinophilic leukemia
Idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome (50,000-100,000/uL)
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T or F: Effect of eosinophilia on the heart can produce restrictive endomyocardiopathy

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True

Others: thrombosis, endocardial fibrosis

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Multisystem disease with prominent cutaneous, hematologic, and visceral manifestations characterized by eosinophilia (>1000/uL) and generalized disabling myalgia without other recognized cause

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Eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome

Cause: ingestion of contaminants in L-tryptophan-containing products
Treatment: Withdrawal of products and administration of glucocorticoids

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Causes of EOSINOPENIA

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  1. Stress (acute bacterial infection)

2. After treatment with glucocorticoids

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Rare multisystem disease in which the immune and somatic systems are affected, including neutrophils, monocytes, Tcells, Bcells, and osteoclasts

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Hyperimmunoglobulin E-recurrent infection syndrome (JOB’S SYNDROME)

Clinical: Characteristic facies of broad nose, kyphoscoliosis, eczema; cold abscessess; primary teeth that do not deciduate
Defect: reduced chemotaxis, memory T and B cells, STAT3 mutation, DOCK8 deficiency
Diagnostic: somatic and immune features, serum IgE>2000 IU/ml; genetic testing

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Management of patients with chronic or cyclic neutrophil counts <500/uL

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May benefit from

  1. Prophylactic antibiotics (e.g. Co-tri 160/800mg BID, levofloxacin, ciprofloxacin)
  2. G-CSF
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Management of severe, persistent lymphocyte dysfunction due to cytotoxic chemotherapy

(e.g. mga Chemo patients sa ward)

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  1. Co-trimoxazole : prevents Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia
  2. Avoid heavy exposure to airborne soil, dust, decaying matter (rich in Nocardia and spores of Aspergillus and other fungi)