Primary Immunodeficiencies Flashcards
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What cells make up the innate immune system?
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Neutrophils, macropahges, eosinophils, NK cells, dendritic cells
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Big picture: what do B / T cell deficiencies cause?
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- B cell deficiency → bacterial infections
* T cell deficiency → viral / fungal infections
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Timeline of diff types of immunodeficiencies
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- First 3-6 months of life: Immune deficiencies that affect neutrophils and T cells present early in life.
- 6-18 months: B cells normally show up here, so absence causes problems b/c mother’s IgG usually wanes after first 6 months.
- Later: Complement deficiencies may cause problems w/ Neisseria infection.
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B cell deficiencies
Labs
Treatment
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- Predispose to bacterial infections (especially encapsulated)
- Recurrent sinopulmonary infections or sepsis.
- Labs: Functional Abs – specific IgG, IgA, IgM to polysaccharide antigens, such as pneumo, diphtheria, or tetanus.
- Quantitative Ig
- CBC w/ differential
- HIV test
- Tx w/ IVIG when IgG levels are less than 800. If Px is IgA-deficient, IVIG and any other transfusions must not contain IgA due to risk of anaphylaxis. AB prophylaxis w/ TMP/sulfa.
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T cell deficiencies
Predisposition
Associated Syndromes / Diseases
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Predispose to viral / fungal infections (opportunistic)
Associated w/ DiGeorge Syndrome, Wiskott Aldrich Syndrome, SCID, eczema, and seborrheic dermatitis.
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Neutrophil deficiencies Associated Disease Clues on physical exam Lab tests Treatment
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- Predispose to recurrent abscesses and catalase+ organisms, such as Staph aureus, Serratia, and Aspergillus.
- Associated w/ Chronic Granulomatous Disease
- Physical exam: scars from old abscesses, gingivitis, early tooth loss
- Lab tests: CBC, flow cytometry, PMN function test w/ nitroblue tetrazolium (oxidative burst test; tests ability to generate superoxide)
- Superoxide causes blue precipitate in cells, indicating you do NOT have oxidative deficiency.
- Dihydrorhodamine test is more accurate than this.
- Bone marrow transplant may be curative
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Complement deficiencies
Predisposition
Clues / Clinical Manifestations
Management
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- Predispose to Recurrent Neisseria infections (meningitides and gonorrhoeae)
- Infection w/o sexual sxs is a clue to complement deficiency, primarily of the terminal complement components.
- May have septic arthritis or skin pustules from disseminated gonococcal infection.
- PMNs seen in CSF w/ intracellular gram neg diplococci
- Total complement test (CH50) and C3 / C4 test
- Px must be educated to seek medical attention promptly w/ fever or other sxs. Do blood cultures and start empiric AB’s in these cases.
- Px should get meningococcal vaccine
- STD education / prevention
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SCID Stands for Age of presentation Pathology Management Treatment
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- Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disorder
- Infections occur in first year of life. Failure to thrive.
- T and B cells are decreased, absent, or don’t function. Fatal w/o immune reconstitution in 1st year of life.
- Management – Protective isolation, antimicrobial prophylaxis, IVIG, no live vaccines (such as rotavirus vaccine), irradiated CMV neg blood products.
- Tx w/ stem cell transplant, gene therapy, PEG-ADA, and thymic transplant.
- PEG-ADA: polyethylene glycol-conjugated adenosine deaminase
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Clues to diagnosis of SCID
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- CD3 is T cell marker, CD19 is B cell marker. Both are usually low. Detect w/ flow cytometry.
- T cell count less than 300 makes you think of typical SCID
- T cell Receptor Excision Circles (TRECs), which indicate rearrangement of T cell receptor, are reduced in all forms of SCID. Mutation may occur at many diff steps.
- TRECs are Biomarker of thymic function. Detected by PCR
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DiGeorge Syndrome Deletion Clinical triad Phenotype Pathophysiology Diagnosis Treatment
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- 22q11.2 micro deletion (most common micro deletion)
- Clinical triad – conotruncal cardiac anomaly (Tetralogy of Fallot), hypoplastic thymus, and hypocalcemia
- Hypoplastic thymus → low T cells → low cell-mediated immune response. Requires immune reconstitution.
- Phenotype – Ocular hypertelorism, Downturning eyes, Hooded eyelids, Low-set posteriorly rotated ears, Widened area below nasal bridge, Bulbous nose tip, Micrognathia (small jaw), Short philtrum, High arched palate, Submucosal cleft palate/bifid uvula, Tapered fingers
- Pathophysiology – teratogens (accutane, alcohol, maternal diabetes) that inhibit neural crest cell migration at critical times can result in DGS w/ chromosomal defects.
- Diagnosis: Look for microdeletion w/ FISH. Stimulate chromosomes w/ PHA to induce mitosis.
- No live vaccines. Tx w/ thymic transplant.
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CATCH 22
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DiGeorge
•C: cardiac abnormalities, such as Tetrology of Fallot
•A: abnormal facies
•T: Thymus aplasia, causes T cell deficiency
•C: cleft palate
•H: hypocalcemia or hypoplastic parathyroid
•22q11 deletion
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CVID Name Age of presentation Pathophysiology Treatment
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- Common Variable Immunodeficiency
- Inherited PI that presents after early childhood. Bimodal age of onset: first and third decades of life.
- Pathophys: Normal B and T-cells but inability to make Abs. B cell memory defect (CD27 cells). Low IgG + low IgM or IgA. Poor response to vaccines. Increased incidence of lymphoid malignancy, autoimmune disease, and atopy
- Treatment – IVIG, aggressive AB’s, immunosuppression for autoimmune problems, possibly bone marrow transplant.
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CVID Autoimmune manifestations
Heme, GI, rheumatologic, endocrine, dermatologic, neurologic
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- Hematologic: autoimmune cytopenias
- GI: pernicious anemia, celiac, IBD
- Rheumatologic: SLE, RA, JRA (juvenile), vasculitis
- Endocrine: Hashimoto’s, T1DM
- Dermatologic: vitiligo, alopecia
- Neurologic: Guillain-Barre
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Wiskott Aldrich Syndrome (WAS) Normal function of WAS protein Pathophys Clinical manifestations Treatment
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- X linked recessive immunodeficiency secondary to dysfunction of actin cytoskeleton
- WAS protein is normally expressed in hematopoietic cells and functions in modulating actin.
- Recurrent infections, thrombocytopenia, increased risk for autoimmunity and malignancy, eczema
- Tx w/ stem cell transplant
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X-Linked Lymphoproliferative Disorder (XLP)
Pathophysiology
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- Severe immune dysregulation after EBV infection.
- Caused by mutation in SLAM-associated protein (SAP), which is necessary for NKT cell development and CD8 T cell responses to EBV infection.
- May involve fatal mononucleosis, hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, lymphoma, and aplastic anemia.
