Epstein-Barr virus-induced diseases in boys with the X-linked lymphoproliferative syndrome (XLP)
| Autor: | Robert T. Collins, Gordon F. Vawter, Shinji Harada, George Klein, Vanessa M. Barnabei, Werner Henle, Kiyoshi Sakamoto, Robert Maier, Martin R. Klemperer, J. Greally, George Bucchanan, Lauren M. Pachman, Paul K. Pattengale, Benjamin H. Landing, Sevre Lie, Helen S. Maurer, David T. Purtilo, Izet Berkel, Gertrude Henle, Hans D. Ochs, Elvin Kaplan, Geraldine Rogers, Margaret Grunet, Joanne Yetz, Gerald Z. Finkelstein, Frank G. Cruzi, Carter D. Brooks, Anders Glomstein, Arthur J. Provisor, Thomas Bechtold, Gary R. Pearson, Janet Seeley, Michael Medici |
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| Rok vydání: | 1982 |
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Mononucleosis
business.industry X-linked lymphoproliferative disease General Medicine medicine.disease_cause medicine.disease Epstein–Barr virus Lymphoma Hypogammaglobulinemia immune system diseases hemic and lymphatic diseases Immunology medicine X-Linked Lymphoproliferative Syndrome Aplastic anemia business Immunodeficiency |
| Zdroj: | The American Journal of Medicine. 73:49-56 |
| ISSN: | 0002-9343 |
| Popis: | Analyses of 100 subjects with the X-linked lymphoproliferative syndrome (XLP) in 25 kindreds revealed four major interrelated phenotypes: infectious mononucleosis, malignant B-cell lymphoma, aplastic anemia, and hypogammaglobulinemia. Eighty-one of the patients died. Two male subjects were asymptomatic but showed immunodeficiency to Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). Seventy-five subjects had the infectious mononucleosis phenotype and concurrently, 17 subjects of this group had aplastic anemia. All subjects with aplastic anemia died within a week. Aplastic anemia did not accompany hypogammaglobulinemia or malignant lymphoma phenotypes. Hypogammaglobulinemia had been detected before infectious mononucleosis in three subjects, after infectious mononucleosis in five subjects, and was not associated with infectious mononucleosis in 11 boys with hypogammaglobulinemia. In nine subjects infectious mononucleosis appeared to have evolved into malignant lymphoma; however, the majority of patients with malignant lymphoma showed no obvious antecedent infectious mononucleosis. One subject had infectious mononucleosis following recurrent malignant lymphoma. Twenty-six of 35 lymphomas were in the terminal ileum. Results of immunologic and virologic studies of 15 survivors revealed combined variable immunodeficiency and deficient antibody responses to EBV-speciflc antigens. Mothers of boys with XLP exhibited abnormally elevated titers of antibodies to EBV. Subjects of both sexes with phenotypes of XLP should be investigated for immunodeficiency to EBV. Persons with inherited or acquired immunodeficiency may be vulnerable to life-threatening EBV-induced diseases. |
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