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Blank RB, Haberman RH, Qian K, Samanovic M, Castillo R, Jimenez Hernandez A, Vasudevapillai Girija P, Catron S, Uddin Z, Rackoff P, Solomon G, Azar N, Rosenthal P, Izmirly P, Samuels J, Golden B, Reddy S, Mulligan MJ, Hu J, Scher JU. Low incidence and transient elevation of autoantibodies post mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in inflammatory arthritis. Rheumatology (Oxford) 2022; 62:467-472. [PMID: 35640110 PMCID: PMC9213868 DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/keac322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2022] [Revised: 05/06/2022] [Accepted: 05/24/2022] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES Autoantibody seroconversion has been extensively studied in the context of COVID-19 infection but data regarding post-vaccination autoantibody production is lacking. Here we aimed to determine the incidence of common autoantibody formation following mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in patients with inflammatory arthritis (IA) and in healthy controls. METHODS Autoantibody seroconversion was measured by serum ELISA in a longitudinal cohort of IA participants and healthy controls before and after COVID-19 mRNA-based immunization. RESULTS Overall, there was a significantly lower incidence of ANA seroconversion in participants who did not contract COVID-19 prior to vaccination compared with those who been previously infected (7.4% vs 24.1%, P = 0.014). Incidence of de novo anti-CCP seroconversion in all participants was low at 4.9%. Autoantibody levels were typically of low titre, transient, and not associated with increase in IA flares. CONCLUSIONS In both health and inflammatory arthritis, the risk of autoantibody seroconversion is lower following mRNA-based immunization than following natural SARS-CoV-2 infection. Importantly, seroconversion does not correlate with self-reported IA disease flare risk, further supporting the encouragement of mRNA-based COVID-19 immunization in the IA population.
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- Rebecca B Blank
- Correspondence to: Rebecca B. Blank, Division of Rheumatology, New York University School of Medicine, 301 East 17th St, Suite 1400, New York, NY 10003, USA. E-mail:
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- Division of Biostatistics, Department of Population Health
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- NYU Langone Vaccine Center, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- NYU Langone Vaccine Center, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Department of Population Health
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Terrault NA, Wahed AS, Feld JJ, Cooper SL, Ghany MG, Lisker-Melman M, Perrillo R, Sterling RK, Khalili M, Chung RT, Rosenthal P, Fontana RJ, Sarowar A, Lau DTY, Wang J, Lok AS, Janssen HLA. Incidence and prediction of HBsAg seroclearance in a prospective multi-ethnic HBeAg-negative chronic hepatitis B cohort. Hepatology 2022; 75:709-723. [PMID: 34743343 PMCID: PMC8943823 DOI: 10.1002/hep.32231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2021] [Revised: 10/20/2021] [Accepted: 10/24/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Achieving HBsAg loss is an important landmark in the natural history of chronic hepatitis B (CHB). A more personalized approach to prediction of HBsAg loss is relevant in counseling patients. This study sought to develop and validate a prediction model for HBsAg loss based on quantitative HBsAg levels (qHBsAg) and other baseline characteristics. METHODS The Hepatitis B Research Network (HBRN) is a prospective cohort including 1240 untreated HBeAg-negative patients (1150 adults, 90 children) with median follow-up of 5.5 years. Incidence rates of HBsAg loss and hepatitis B surface antibody (anti-HBs) acquisition were determined, and a predictor score of HBsAg loss using readily available variables was developed and externally validated. RESULTS Crude incidence rates of HBsAg loss and anti-HBs acquisition were 1.6 and 1.1 per 100 person-years (PY); 67 achieved sustained HBsAg loss for an incidence rate of 1.2 per 100 PY. Increased HBsAg loss was significantly associated with older age, non-Asian race, HBV phenotype (inactive CHB vs. others), HBV genotype A, lower HBV-DNA levels, and lower and greater change in qHBsAg. The HBRN-SQuARe (sex,∆quantHBsAg, age, race) score predicted HBsAg loss over time with area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) (95% CIs) at 1 and 3 years of 0.99 (95% CI: 0.987-1.00) and 0.95 (95% CI 0.91-1.00), respectively. In validation in another cohort of 1253 HBeAg-negative patients with median follow-up of 3.1 years, HBRN SQuARe predicted HBsAg loss at 1 and 3 years with AUROC values of 0.99 (0.98-1.00) and 0.88 (0.77-0.99), respectively. CONCLUSION HBsAg loss in predominantly untreated patients with HBeAg-negative CHB can be accurately predicted over a 3-year horizon using a simple validated score (HBRN SQuARe). This prognostication tool can be used to support patient care and counseling.
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- NA Terrault
- Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases Division, Keck Medicine of University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Toronto Center for Liver Disease, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- San Francisco Center for Liver Disease, California Pacific Medical & Research Institute, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Liver Diseases Branch, National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Washington University School of Medicine and John Cochran VA Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Section of Hepatology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Toronto Center for Liver Disease, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Liver Center, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Toronto Center for Liver Disease, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Haberman RH, Herati R, Simon D, Samanovic M, Blank RB, Tuen M, Koralov SB, Atreya R, Tascilar K, Allen JR, Castillo R, Cornelius AR, Rackoff P, Solomon G, Adhikari S, Azar N, Rosenthal P, Izmirly P, Samuels J, Golden B, Reddy SM, Neurath MF, Abramson SB, Schett G, Mulligan MJ, Scher JU. Methotrexate hampers immunogenicity to BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in immune-mediated inflammatory disease. Ann Rheum Dis 2021; 80:1339-1344. [PMID: 34035003 PMCID: PMC8219484 DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2021-220597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 166] [Impact Index Per Article: 55.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2021] [Accepted: 05/10/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the humoral and cellular immune response to messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 vaccines in patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) on immunomodulatory treatment. METHODS Established patients at New York University Langone Health with IMID (n=51) receiving the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccination were assessed at baseline and after second immunisation. Healthy subjects served as controls (n=26). IgG antibody responses to the spike protein were analysed for humoral response. Cellular immune response to SARS-CoV-2 was further analysed using high-parameter spectral flow cytometry. A second independent, validation cohort of controls (n=182) and patients with IMID (n=31) from Erlangen, Germany, were also analysed for humoral immune response. RESULTS Although healthy subjects (n=208) and patients with IMID on biologic treatments (mostly on tumour necrosis factor blockers, n=37) demonstrate robust antibody responses (over 90%), those patients with IMID on background methotrexate (n=45) achieve an adequate response in only 62.2% of cases. Similarly, patients with IMID on methotrexate do not demonstrate an increase in CD8+ T-cell activation after vaccination. CONCLUSIONS In two independent cohorts of patients with IMID, methotrexate, a widely used immunomodulator for the treatment of several IMIDs, adversely affected humoral and cellular immune response to COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. Although precise cut-offs for immunogenicity that correlate with vaccine efficacy are yet to be established, our findings suggest that different strategies may need to be explored in patients with IMID taking methotrexate to increase the chances of immunisation efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 as has been demonstrated for augmenting immunogenicity to other viral vaccines.
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- Rebecca H Haberman
- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
- NYU Langone Psoriatic Arthritis Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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- Divison of Infectious Disease and Immunology and NYU Langone Vaccine Center, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine 3 - Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
- Deutsches Zentrum fuer Immuntherapie (DZI), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
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- Divison of Infectious Disease and Immunology and NYU Langone Vaccine Center, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
- New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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- Divison of Infectious Disease and Immunology and NYU Langone Vaccine Center, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Pathology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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- Deutsches Zentrum fuer Immuntherapie (DZI), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
- Department of Internal Medicine 1, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine 3 - Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
- Deutsches Zentrum fuer Immuntherapie (DZI), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
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- Divison of Infectious Disease and Immunology and NYU Langone Vaccine Center, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
- NYU Langone Psoriatic Arthritis Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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- Divison of Infectious Disease and Immunology and NYU Langone Vaccine Center, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
- Department of Medicine, NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital, New York, New York, USA
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
- NYU Langone Psoriatic Arthritis Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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- Deutsches Zentrum fuer Immuntherapie (DZI), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
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- New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
- Rheumatology Research, NYU-NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine 3 - Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
- Deutsches Zentrum fuer Immuntherapie (DZI), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
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- Divison of Infectious Disease and Immunology and NYU Langone Vaccine Center, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
- NYU Langone Psoriatic Arthritis Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
- New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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Plotz B, Castillo R, Melamed J, Nuovo G, Magro C, Rosenthal P, Belmont HM. Corrigendum to: Focal small bowel thrombotic microvascular injury in COVID-19 mediated by the lectin complement pathway masquerading as lupus enteritis. Rheumatology (Oxford) 2021; 60:3485. [PMID: 34096576 PMCID: PMC8344817 DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/keab350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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- Department of Pathology, New York University Langone Health, New York, NY
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- Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center and Discovery Life Sciences, Columbus, OH
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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Haberman RH, Herati RS, Simon D, Samanovic M, Blank RB, Tuen M, Koralov SB, Atreya R, Tascilar K, Allen JR, Castillo R, Cornelius AR, Rackoff P, Solomon G, Adhikari S, Azar N, Rosenthal P, Izmirly P, Samuels J, Golden B, Reddy S, Neurath M, Abramson SB, Schett G, Mulligan MJ, Scher JU. Methotrexate Hampers Immunogenicity to BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine in Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Disease. medRxiv 2021. [PMID: 34013285 DOI: 10.1101/2021.05.11.21256917] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Objective To investigate the humoral and cellular immune response to mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) on immunomodulatory treatment. Methods Established patients at NYU Langone Health with IMID (n=51) receiving the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccination were assessed at baseline and after second immunization. Healthy subjects served as controls (n=26). IgG antibody responses to the spike protein were analyzed for humoral response. Cellular immune response to SARS-CoV-2 was further analyzed using high-parameter spectral flow cytometry. A second independent, validation cohort of controls (n=182) and patients with IMID (n=31) from Erlangen, Germany were also analyzed for humoral immune response. Results Although healthy subjects (n=208) and IMID patients on biologic treatments (mostly on TNF blockers, n=37) demonstrate robust antibody responses (over 90%), those patients with IMID on background methotrexate (n=45) achieve an adequate response in only 62.2% of cases. Similarly, IMID patients do not demonstrate an increase in CD8+ T cell activation after vaccination. Conclusions In two independent cohorts of IMID patients, methotrexate, a widely used immunomodulator for the treatment of several IMIDs, adversely affected humoral and cellular immune response to COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. Although precise cut offs for immunogenicity that correlate with vaccine efficacy are yet to be established, our findings suggest that different strategies may need to be explored in patients with IMID taking methotrexate to increase the chances of immunization efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 as has been demonstrated for augmenting immunogenicity to other viral vaccines. KEY MESSAGES What is already known about this subject?: The impact of COVID-19 has been felt across the globe and new hope has arisen with the approval of mRNA vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2. Studies have shown immunogenicity and efficacy rates of over 90% in the immunocompetent adult population. However, there is a lack of knowledge surrounding the response of patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) who may also be on immunomodulatory medications.Patients with IMID have been shown to have attenuated immune responses to seasonal influenza vaccination.What does this study add?: This study looks at the humoral and cellular immune response to two doses of BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine in participants with IMID (on immunomodulators) compared with healthy controls.Individuals with IMID on methotrexate demonstrate up to a 62% reduced rate of adequate immunogenicity to the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccination. Those on anti-cytokine or non-methotrexate oral medications demonstrate similar levels of immunogenicity as healthy controls (greater than 90%).Similarly, vaccination did not induce an activated CD8+ T cell response in participants on background methotrexate, unlike healthy controls and patients with IMID not receiving methotrexate.How might this impact of clinical practice or future developments?: These results suggest that patients on methotrexate may need alternate vaccination strategies such as additional doses of vaccine, dose modification of methotrexate, or even a temporary discontinuation of this drug. Further studies will be required to explore the effect of these approaches on mRNA vaccine immunogenicity.
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Artacho A, Isaac S, Nayak R, Flor-Duro A, Alexander M, Koo I, Manasson J, Smith PB, Rosenthal P, Homsi Y, Gulko P, Pons J, Puchades-Carrasco L, Izmirly P, Patterson A, Abramson SB, Pineda-Lucena A, Turnbaugh PJ, Ubeda C, Scher JU. The Pretreatment Gut Microbiome Is Associated With Lack of Response to Methotrexate in New-Onset Rheumatoid Arthritis. Arthritis Rheumatol 2021; 73:931-942. [PMID: 33314800 DOI: 10.1002/art.41622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2020] [Revised: 11/15/2020] [Accepted: 12/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Although oral methotrexate (MTX) remains the anchor drug for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), up to 50% of patients do not achieve a clinically adequate outcome. In addition, there is a lack of prognostic tools for treatment response prior to drug initiation. This study was undertaken to investigate whether interindividual differences in the human gut microbiome can aid in the prediction of MTX efficacy in new-onset RA. METHODS We performed 16S ribosomal RNA gene and shotgun metagenomic sequencing on the baseline gut microbiomes of drug-naive patients with new-onset RA (n = 26). Results were validated in an additional independent cohort (n = 21). To gain insight into potential microbial mechanisms, we conducted ex vivo experiments coupled with metabolomics analysis to evaluate the association between microbiome-driven MTX depletion and clinical response. RESULTS Our analysis revealed significant associations of the abundance of gut bacterial taxa and their genes with future clinical response (q < 0.05), including orthologs related to purine and MTX metabolism. Machine learning techniques were applied to the metagenomic data, resulting in a microbiome-based model that predicted lack of response to MTX in an independent group of patients. Finally, MTX levels remaining after ex vivo incubation with distal gut samples from pretreatment RA patients significantly correlated with the magnitude of future clinical response, suggesting a possible direct effect of the gut microbiome on MTX metabolism and treatment outcomes. CONCLUSION Taken together, these findings are the first step toward predicting lack of response to oral MTX in patients with new-onset RA and support the value of the gut microbiome as a possible prognostic tool and as a potential target in RA therapeutics.
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- Center for Public Health Research, FISABIO, Valencia, Spain
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- Pennsylvania State University, University Park
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- New York University School of Medicine and NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital, New York
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- New York University School of Medicine and NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital, New York
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- Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
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- Center for Public Health Research, FISABIO, Valencia, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe and Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe, Valencia, Spain
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- New York University School of Medicine and NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital, New York
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- New York University School of Medicine and NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital, New York
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- Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe and Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe, Valencia, Spain, and Centro de Investigación Médica Aplicada, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
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- University of California and Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco, California
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- Centro Superior de Investigación en Salud Pública, La Fundación para el Fomento de la Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de la Comunitat Valenciana, Valencia, Spain, and CIBERESP, Madrid, Spain
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- New York University School of Medicine and NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital, New York
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Plotz B, Castillo R, Melamed J, Magro C, Rosenthal P, Belmont HM. Focal small bowel thrombotic microvascular injury in COVID-19 mediated by the lectin complement pathway masquerading as lupus enteritis. Rheumatology (Oxford) 2021; 60:e61-e63. [PMID: 33147605 PMCID: PMC7665776 DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/keaa627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2020] [Accepted: 09/01/2020] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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- Department of Pathology, New York University Langone Health, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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Attur M, Krasnokutsky S, Zhou H, Samuels J, Chang G, Bencardino J, Rosenthal P, Rybak L, Huebner JL, Kraus VB, Abramson SB. The combination of an inflammatory peripheral blood gene expression and imaging biomarkers enhance prediction of radiographic progression in knee osteoarthritis. Arthritis Res Ther 2020; 22:208. [PMID: 32912331 PMCID: PMC7488029 DOI: 10.1186/s13075-020-02298-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2020] [Accepted: 08/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Predictive biomarkers of progression in knee osteoarthritis are sought to enable clinical trials of structure-modifying drugs. A peripheral blood leukocyte (PBL) inflammatory gene signature, MRI-based bone marrow lesions (BML) and meniscus extrusion scores, meniscal lesions, and osteophytes on X-ray each have been shown separately to predict radiographic joint space narrowing (JSN) in subjects with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis (SKOA). In these studies, we determined whether the combination of the PBL inflammatory gene expression and these imaging findings at baseline enhanced the prognostic value of either alone. METHODS PBL inflammatory gene expression (increased mRNA for IL-1β, TNFα, and COX-2), routine radiographs, and 3T knee MRI were assessed in two independent populations with SKOA: an NYU cohort and the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI). At baseline and 24 months, subjects underwent standardized fixed-flexion knee radiographs and knee MRI. Medial JSN (mJSN) was determined as the change in medial JSW. Progressors were defined by an mJSN cut-point (≥ 0.5 mm/24 months). Models were evaluated by odds ratios (OR) and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC). RESULTS We validated our prior finding in these two independent (NYU and OAI) cohorts, individually and combined, that an inflammatory PBL inflammatory gene expression predicted radiographic progression of SKOA after adjustment for age, sex, and BMI. Similarly, the presence of baseline BML and meniscal lesions by MRI or semiquantitative osteophyte score on X-ray each predicted radiographic medial JSN at 24 months. The combination of the PBL inflammatory gene expression and medial BML increased the AUC from 0.66 (p = 0.004) to 0.75 (p < 0.0001) and the odds ratio from 6.31 to 19.10 (p < 0.0001) in the combined cohort of 473 subjects. The addition of osteophyte score to BML and PBL inflammatory gene expression further increased the predictive value of any single biomarker. A causal analysis demonstrated that the PBL inflammatory gene expression and BML independently influenced mJSN. CONCLUSION The use of the PBL inflammatory gene expression together with imaging biomarkers as combinatorial predictive biomarkers, markedly enhances the identification of radiographic progressors. The identification of the SKOA population at risk for progression will help in the future design of disease-modifying OA drug trials and personalized medicine strategies.
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- Mukundan Attur
- Department of Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA. .,Division of Rheumatology, Rheumatology Research laboratory, NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital, 301 East 17th Street, Suite 1612, New York, NY, 10003, USA.
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- Applied Bioinformatics Laboratories, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Radiology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Radiology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.,Division of Musculoskeletal Imaging, Department of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Department of Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Applied Bioinformatics Laboratories, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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Guidelines for managing hyperbilirubinemia in newborns were developed by using diazo methods that measure total and direct-reacting bilirubins and calculate an indirect fraction. The automated Kodak Ektachem system allows for measuring serum bilirubin by either of two dry-slide methods: TBIL, involving a modified diazo method, and NBIL, involving a dual-wavelength colorimetric method that fractionates and directly measures the unconjugated (Bu) and conjugated (Bc) bilirubins (Bu+Bc = neonatal bilirubin). The manufacturer recommends that NBIL be used in newborns less than 15 days old, which is impractical in a large, busy hospital laboratory. We compared NBIL and TBIL in 500 paired serum samples from infants less than 15 days old. We noted a statistically significant difference between TBIL and NBIL values (162.9, SD 70.4, vs 164.6, SD 69.2, mumol/L; P less than 0.0001), which was small and of no clinical significance. We conclude that TBIL values may be used with caution for newborn bilirubin screening. Furthermore, NBIL measurements are an acceptable alternative to diazo measurements for neonatal care, allowing the use of previously developed guidelines with NBIL values.
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- M E Langbaum
- Ahmanson Pediatric Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048-1869
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- Ahmanson Pediatric Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048-1869
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- Ahmanson Pediatric Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048-1869
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- N H Ebel
- Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Younossi ZM, Stepanova M, Schwarz KB, Wirth S, Rosenthal P, Gonzalez-Peralta R, Murray K, Henry L, Hunt S. Quality of life in adolescents with hepatitis C treated with sofosbuvir and ribavirin. J Viral Hepat 2018; 25:354-362. [PMID: 29193603 DOI: 10.1111/jvh.12830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2017] [Accepted: 10/05/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Chronic HCV infection has been associated with impairment of HRQL in both adults and paediatric patients. Our aim was to assess the HRQL of HCV-positive children treated with SOF + RBV. The data for this post hoc analysis were collected in a phase 2 open-label multinational study that evaluated safety and efficacy of SOF (400 mg/day) plus RBV (weight-based up to 1400 mg/day) for 12 or 24 weeks in adolescents with chronic HCV (GS-US-334-1112). Patients and their parents/guardians completed the PedsQL-4.0-SF-15 questionnaire at baseline, at the end of treatment and in post-treatment follow-up. We included 50 adolescents with HCV genotype 2 and 3 without cirrhosis (14.8 ± 1.9 years; male: 58%; treatment-naïve: 82%; vertically transmitted HCV: 70%). After treatment, 100% of patients with HCV genotype 2 and 95% with genotype 3 achieved SVR-12. During treatment with SOF + RBV, there were no significant decrements in any of patients' self-reported or parent-proxy-reported PRO scores regardless of treatment duration (all P > .05). After treatment cessation, we recorded a statistically significant improvement in patients' self-reported Social Functioning score by post-treatment week 12: on average, +4.8 points on a 0-100 scale (P = .02). By post-treatment week 24, parent-proxy-reported School Functioning score increased by, on average, +13.0 points (P = .0065). In multivariate analysis, history of abdominal pain and psychiatric disorders were predictive of impaired HRQL in adolescents with HCV (P < .05). Adolescents with HCV do not seem to experience any HRQL decrement during treatment with SOF + RBV and experience some improvement of their HRQL scores after achieving SVR.
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- Z M Younossi
- Department of Medicine, Center for Liver Diseases, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, VA, USA.,Betty and Guy Beatty Center for Integrated Research, Inova Health System, Falls Church, VA, USA
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- Center for Outcomes Research in Liver Diseases, Washington, DC, USA
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- Johns Hopkins Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Children's Hospital, Heusnerstt, Germany
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- University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Center for Outcomes Research in Liver Diseases, Washington, DC, USA
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- Center for Outcomes Research in Liver Diseases, Washington, DC, USA
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Pelzek AJ, Grönwall C, Rosenthal P, Greenberg JD, McGeachy M, Moreland L, Rigby WFC, Silverman GJ. Persistence of Disease-Associated Anti-Citrullinated Protein Antibody-Expressing Memory B Cells in Rheumatoid Arthritis in Clinical Remission. Arthritis Rheumatol 2017; 69:1176-1186. [PMID: 28118534 DOI: 10.1002/art.40053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2016] [Accepted: 01/17/2017] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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OBJECTIVE In rheumatoid arthritis (RA), autoreactive B cells are pathogenic drivers and sources of anti-citrullinated protein antibodies (ACPAs) that are a diagnostic biomarker and predictor of worse long-term prognosis. Yet, the immunobiologic significance of persistent ACPA production at the cellular level is poorly understood. This study was undertaken to investigate the representation of ACPA-expressing switched-memory B cells in RA. METHODS In a cross-sectional study of RA patients, we investigated the presence of continued defects in immune homeostasis as a function of disease activity. Using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and a sensitive multiplex bead-based immunoassay, we characterized fine binding antibody specificities in sera, synovial fluid (SF), and B cell culture supernatants. In this manner, we determined the frequency and epitope reactivity patterns of ACPAs produced by SF B cells and switched-memory blood B cells and compared the latter to serum ACPA levels and disease activity scores. RESULTS Cultured B cells from SF were shown to spontaneously secrete ACPAs, while constitutive IgG autoantibody production by peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) was substantially less frequent. After in vitro stimulation, PBMCs secreted IgG ACPA that was overwhelmingly from switched-memory B cells, across all patient groups treated with methotrexate and/or a tumor necrosis factor inhibitor. Intriguingly, the frequencies of ACPA-expressing switched-memory B cells significantly correlated with serum IgG anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide 3 (r = 0.57, P = 0.003). Moreover, treatment-induced clinical remission had little or no effect on the circulating burden of switched-memory ACPA-expressing B cells, in part explaining the continued dysregulation of humoral immunity. CONCLUSION Our findings rationalize why therapeutic cessation most often results in disease reactivation and clinical flare. Hence, a clinical disease activity score is not a reliable indicator of the resolution of pathologic recirculating B cell autoimmunity.
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- Adam J Pelzek
- New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York
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Murray K, Balistreri W, Bansal S, Whitworth S, Evans H, Gonzalez-Peralta R, Wen J, Massetto B, Kersey K, Zhu Y, Garrison K, Svarovskaia E, Brainard D, Arnon R, Gillis L, Jonas M, Lin CH, Narkewicz M, Schwarz K, Rosenthal P. Ledipasvir/sofosbuvir ± ribavirin for 12 or 24 weeks is safe and effective in children 6–11 years old with chronic hepatitis C infection. J Hepatol 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/s0168-8278(17)30377-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/25/2023]
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Usatin DJ, Perito ER, Posselt AM, Rosenthal P. Under Utilization of Pancreas Transplants in Cystic Fibrosis Recipients in the United Network Organ Sharing (UNOS) Data 1987-2014. Am J Transplant 2016; 16:1620-5. [PMID: 26603034 PMCID: PMC5436302 DOI: 10.1111/ajt.13630] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2015] [Revised: 10/22/2015] [Accepted: 11/12/2015] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Despite a high prevalence of pancreatic endocrine and exocrine insufficiency in cystic fibrosis (CF), pancreas transplantation is rarely reported. United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) data were used to examine utilization of pancreas transplant and posttransplant outcomes in CF patients. Between 1987-2014, CF patients (N = 4600) underwent 17 liver-pancreas, three lung-pancreas, one liver-lung pancreas, four kidney-pancreas, and three pancreas-only transplants. Of the 303 CF patients who received liver transplantation, 20% had CF-related diabetes (CFRD) before transplantation, and nine of those received a liver-pancreas transplant. Of 4241 CF patients who underwent lung transplantation, 33% had CFRD before transplantation, and three of those received a pancreas transplant. Of 49 CF patients who received a liver-lung transplant, 57% had CFRD before transplantation and one received a pancreas transplant. Posttransplantation diabetes developed in 7% of CF pancreas transplant recipients versus 24% of CF liver and 29% of CF lung recipients. UNOS has no data on pancreas exocrine insufficiency. Two-year posttransplantation survival was 88% after liver-pancreas transplant, 33% after lung-pancreas transplant, and 100% after pancreas-kidney and pancreas-only transplants. Diabetes is common pretransplantation and posttransplantation in CF solid organ transplant recipients, but pancreas transplantation remains rare. Further consideration of pancreas transplant in CF patients undergoing other solid organ transplant may be warranted.
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- D. J. Usatin
- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA,Corresponding author: Danielle Usatin,
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA,Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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Perito ER, Mohammad S, Rosenthal P, Alonso EM, Ekong UD, Lobritto SJ, Feng S. Posttransplant metabolic syndrome in the withdrawal of immunosuppression in Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients (WISP-R) pilot trial. Am J Transplant 2015; 15:779-85. [PMID: 25648649 PMCID: PMC4426259 DOI: 10.1111/ajt.13024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2014] [Revised: 09/04/2014] [Accepted: 09/15/2014] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Posttransplant metabolic syndrome (PTMS)-obesity, hypertension, elevated triglycerides, low HDL and glucose intolerance-is a major contributor to morbidity after adult liver transplant. This analysis of the Withdrawal of Immunosuppression in Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients (WISP-R) pilot trial is the first prospective study of PTMS after pediatric liver transplant. Twenty children were enrolled in WISP-R, at median age 8.5 years (IQR 6.4-10.8), and weaned from calcineurin-inhibitor monotherapy. The 12 children who tolerated complete immunosuppression withdrawal were compared to matched historical controls. At baseline, 45% of WISP-R subjects and 58% of controls had at least one component of PTMS. Calcineurin-inhibitor withdrawal in the WISP-R subjects did not impact the prevalence of PTMS components compared to controls. At 5 years, despite weaning off of immunosuppression, 92% of the 12 tolerant WISP-R subjects had at least one PTMS component and 58% had at least two; 33% were overweight or obese, 50% had dyslipidemia, 33% glucose intolerance and 42% systolic hypertension. Overweight/obesity increased the risk of hypertension in all children. Compared to controls, WISP-R tolerant subjects had similar GFR at baseline but did have higher GFR at 2, 3 and 4 years. Further study of PTMS and immunosuppression withdrawal after pediatric liver transplant is warranted.
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- E. R. Perito
- Department of Pediatrics, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children's Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Pediatrics, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, CA,Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children's Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children's Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Pediatrics, Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY,Department of Surgery, Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
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- Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA,Corresponding author: Sandy Feng,
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Krasnokutsky S, Belitskaya-Lévy I, Bencardino J, Samuels J, Attur M, Regatte R, Rosenthal P, Greenberg J, Schweitzer M, Abramson SB, Rybak L. Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging evidence of synovial proliferation is associated with radiographic severity of knee osteoarthritis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013; 63:2983-91. [PMID: 21647860 DOI: 10.1002/art.30471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationships between both quantitative and semiquantitative assessments of the degree of knee synovitis on 3T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and the severity of knee osteoarthritis (OA) on radiography. METHODS Fifty-eight patients with knee OA underwent nonfluoroscopic fixed-flexion knee radiography. In addition, dynamic contrast-enhanced 3T MRI of the knees was performed, before and after gadolinium administration, to quantify synovial membrane volume (SV) as a measure of synovial proliferation (expressed as the quantitative SV), and semiquantitative measures of synovitis were also applied using both contrast-enhanced and unenhanced images. Two radiologists scored the knee radiographs using the Osteoarthritis Research Society International atlas; interreader agreement was assessed using kappa statistics and concordance correlation coefficients. Multiple linear and logistic regression analyses were used to assess associations among variables, while controlling for the effects of age, body mass index, sex, and meniscal extrusion. Odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) were calculated for measures of disease activity. RESULTS The Kellgren/Lawrence (K/L) grade of radiographic knee OA severity (β=0.78), the diseased compartment joint space width (dcJSW) (β=-0.22), and the diseased compartment joint space narrowing (dcJSN) score (β=0.53) were each significantly associated with the quantitative SV (P=0.0001, P=0.0003, and P=0.0001, respectively). Furthermore, the quantitative SV strongly correlated with the total volume of subchondral bone marrow lesions (BMLs) (β=0.22, P=0.0003). The K/L grade, dcJSW, and dcJSN score were each significantly associated with the semiquantitative Boston Leeds Osteoarthritis Knee Score (BLOKS) for the extent of infrapatellar synovitis (OR 9.05 [95% CI 1.94, 42.3] for K/L grade; OR 0.75 [95% CI 0.54, 1.03] for dcJSW; and OR 2.22 [95% CI 1.15, 4.31] for dcJSN score) and extent of joint effusion (OR 5.75 [95% CI 1.23, 26.8] for K/L grade; OR 0.70 [95% CI 0.50, 0.98] for dcJSW; and OR 1.96 [95% CI 1.02, 3.74] for dcJSN score). In addition, the semiquantitative synovitis grade on contrast-enhanced MRI was significantly associated with the K/L grade (β=0.036, P=0.0040) and dcJSN score (β=0.015, P=0.0266), and also significantly associated with the BLOKS synovitis score. CONCLUSION Synovitis is a characteristic feature of advancing knee OA and is significantly associated with the K/L grade, JSW, JSN score, and total volume of BMLs on radiographs. Furthermore, BLOKS scoring of synovitis on unenhanced MRI is associated with measurements of synovitis on contrast-enhanced MRI.
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- Svetlana Krasnokutsky
- New York University Langone Medical Center and New York University Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York, New York 10003, USA.
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Khorram N, Sugimoto K, Sheppard D, Rosenthal P, Cho J, Pham A, Miller M, Zuraw B, Croft M, Broide D, Doherty T. Alternaria Induces Stat-6 Dependent Acute Airway Eosinophilia And Epithelial Fizz1 Expression That Promotes Airway Fibrosis And Epithelial Thickness. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2011.12.698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Nijagal A, Fleck S, Hills NK, Feng S, Tang Q, Kang SM, Rosenthal P, MacKenzie TC. Decreased risk of graft failure with maternal liver transplantation in patients with biliary atresia. Am J Transplant 2012; 12:409-19. [PMID: 22221561 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2011.03895.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The presence of maternal cells in offspring may promote tolerance to noninherited maternal antigens (NIMAs). Children with biliary atresia (BA) have increased maternal cells in their livers, which may impact tolerance. We hypothesized that patients with BA would have improved outcomes when receiving a maternal liver. We reviewed all pediatric liver transplants recorded in the SRTR database from 1996 to 2010 and compared BA and non-BA recipients of maternal livers with recipients of paternal livers for the incidences of graft failure and retransplantation. Rejection episodes after parental liver transplantation were examined for patients transplanted at our institution. BA patients receiving a maternal graft had lower rates of graft failure compared to those receiving a paternal graft (3.7% vs. 10.5%, p = 0.02) and, consequently, fewer episodes of retransplantation (2.7% vs. 7.5%, p = 0.04). These differences were not seen among non-BA patients or among BA patients who received female deceased donor grafts. In patients transplanted at our institution, paternal liver transplantation was associated with an increased incidence of refractory rejection compared to maternal liver transplantation only in BA. Our data support the concept that maternal cells in BA recipients promote tolerance to NIMAs and may be important in counseling BA patients who require liver transplantation.
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- A Nijagal
- Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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McGuire BM, Rosenthal P, Brown CC, Busch AMH, Calcatera SM, Claria RS, Hunt NK, Korenblat KM, Mazariegos GV, Moonka D, Orloff SL, Perry DK, Rosen CB, Scott DL, Sudan DL. Long-term management of the liver transplant patient: recommendations for the primary care doctor. Am J Transplant 2009; 9:1988-2003. [PMID: 19563332 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2009.02733.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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No official document has been published for primary care physicians regarding the management of liver transplant patients. With no official source of reference, primary care physicians often question their care of these patients. The following guidelines have been approved by the American Society of Transplantation and represent the position of the association. The data presented are based on formal review and analysis of published literature in the field and the clinical experience of the authors. These guidelines address drug interactions and side effects of immunosuppressive agents, allograft dysfunction, renal dysfunction, metabolic disorders, preventive medicine, malignancies, disability and productivity in the workforce, issues specific to pregnancy and sexual function, and pediatric patient concerns. These guidelines are intended to provide a bridge between transplant centers and primary care physicians in the long-term management of the liver transplant patient.
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- B M McGuire
- University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
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Doherty D, Parisi MA, Finn LS, Gunay-Aygun M, Al-Mateen M, Bates D, Clericuzio C, Demir H, Dorschner M, van Essen AJ, Gahl WA, Gentile M, Gorden NT, Hikida A, Knutzen D, Ozyurek H, Phelps I, Rosenthal P, Verloes A, Weigand H, Chance PF, Dobyns WB, Glass IA. Mutations in 3 genes (MKS3, CC2D2A and RPGRIP1L) cause COACH syndrome (Joubert syndrome with congenital hepatic fibrosis). J Med Genet 2009; 47:8-21. [PMID: 19574260 DOI: 10.1136/jmg.2009.067249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To identify genetic causes of COACH syndrome BACKGROUND COACH syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterised by Cerebellar vermis hypoplasia, Oligophrenia (developmental delay/mental retardation), Ataxia, Coloboma, and Hepatic fibrosis. The vermis hypoplasia falls in a spectrum of mid-hindbrain malformation called the molar tooth sign (MTS), making COACH a Joubert syndrome related disorder (JSRD). METHODS In a cohort of 251 families with JSRD, 26 subjects in 23 families met criteria for COACH syndrome, defined as JSRD plus clinically apparent liver disease. Diagnostic criteria for JSRD were clinical findings (intellectual impairment, hypotonia, ataxia) plus supportive brain imaging findings (MTS or cerebellar vermis hypoplasia). MKS3/TMEM67 was sequenced in all subjects for whom DNA was available. In COACH subjects without MKS3 mutations, CC2D2A, RPGRIP1L and CEP290 were also sequenced. RESULTS 19/23 families (83%) with COACH syndrome carried MKS3 mutations, compared to 2/209 (1%) with JSRD but no liver disease. Two other families with COACH carried CC2D2A mutations, one family carried RPGRIP1L mutations, and one lacked mutations in MKS3, CC2D2A, RPGRIP1L and CEP290. Liver biopsies from three subjects, each with mutations in one of the three genes, revealed changes within the congenital hepatic fibrosis/ductal plate malformation spectrum. In JSRD with and without liver disease, MKS3 mutations account for 21/232 families (9%). CONCLUSIONS Mutations in MKS3 are responsible for the majority of COACH syndrome, with minor contributions from CC2D2A and RPGRIP1L; therefore, MKS3 should be the first gene tested in patients with JSRD plus liver disease and/or coloboma, followed by CC2D2A and RPGRIP1L.
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- D Doherty
- University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-0320, USA.
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Pels K, Schwimmbeck PL, Rosenthal P, Loddenkemper C, Dang-Heine C, Rauch U, Martens H, Schultheiss HP, Dechend R, Deiner C. Long-term clopidogrel administration following severe coronary injury reduces proliferation and inflammation via inhibition of nuclear factor-kappaB and activator protein 1 activation in pigs. Eur J Clin Invest 2009; 39:174-82. [PMID: 19260946 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2362.2009.02089.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND The optimal duration of clopidogrel treatment following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and the patient population that would benefit most are still unknown. In a porcine coronary injury model, we tested two different durations of clopidogrel treatment on severely or moderately injured arteries and examined the arterial response to injury. To understand the molecular mechanism, we also investigated the effects on transcription factors nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) and activator protein 1 (AP-1). MATERIALS AND METHODS In 24 cross-bred pigs, one coronary artery was only moderately injured by percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) and one coronary artery was severely injured by PTCA and subsequent beta-irradiation (Brachy group). Animals received 325 mg aspirin daily for 3 months and 75 mg clopidogrel daily for either 28 days [short-term (ST) clopidogrel group] or 3 months [long-term (LT) clopidogrel group]. RESULTS After 3 months, the number of proliferating cells per cross-section differed significantly between ST and LT in both injury groups (PTCA(ST) 90.2 +/- 10.3 vs. PTCA(LT )19.2 +/- 4.7, P < 0.05; Brachy(ST) 35.8 +/- 8.4 vs. Brachy(LT) 7.5 +/- 2.0, P < 0.05). Similar results were seen for inflammatory cells (CD3(+) cells): PTCA(ST) 23.5 +/- 3.55 vs. PTCA(LT )4.67 +/- 0.92, P < 0.05; Brachy(ST) 83.17 +/- 11.17 vs. Brachy(LT) 20 +/- 4.82, P < 0.05). Long-term administration also reduced the activity of NF-kappaB and AP-1 by 62-64% and 42-58%, respectively. However, the effects of different durations of clopidogrel administration on artery dimensions were not statistically significant. CONCLUSIONS Regarding inflammation and transcription factor activity at the PCI site, long-term clopidogrel administration is superior to short-term administration, especially in severely injured arteries. Transferring our results to the human situation, patients with more severely diseased arteries may benefit from a prolonged clopidogrel medication after PCI.
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- K Pels
- Charité- Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany.
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Pillinger MH, Rosenthal P, Abeles AM. Hyperuricemia and gout: new insights into pathogenesis and treatment. Bull NYU Hosp Jt Dis 2007; 65:215-221. [PMID: 17922673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Over the past decade, significant advances have been made regarding the pathogenesis, clinical implications, and treatment of hyperuricemia. While physicians have understood for at least a century that uric acid causes gout, we are now beginning to address the question of why hyperuricemia exists and the mechanisms by which uric acid acts to stimulate inflammation. This review focuses on (1) previously unknown biological roles of uric acid; (2) why the loss of the uricase gene and resultant hyperuricemia may have provided an evolutionary advantage to primates and, in particular, to humans; (3) the molecular effects of uric acid on inflammatory cells; and (4) novel antihyperuricemic agents currently under study.
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- Michael H Pillinger
- New York University School of Medicine and Division of Rheumatology, NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York, NY 10003, USA.
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Tseng CE, Buyon JP, Kim M, Belmont HM, Mackay M, Diamond B, Marder G, Rosenthal P, Haines K, Ilie V, Abramson SB. The effect of moderate-dose corticosteroids in preventing severe flares in patients with serologically active, but clinically stable, systemic lupus erythematosus: findings of a prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 54:3623-32. [PMID: 17075807 DOI: 10.1002/art.22198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Serial measurements of anti-double-stranded DNA (anti-dsDNA) and complement are routine in the management of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), but their utility as biomarkers in preemptive treatment to prevent flares remains a subject of controversy. We hypothesized that concomitant elevation of anti-dsDNA and C3a can predict SLE activity in patients with stable or inactive disease and that short-term treatment with corticosteroids can avert flares. METHODS In this prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, 154 patients were evaluated monthly for up to 18 months, with measurements of C3a, C3, C4, CH50, and anti-dsDNA levels. Patients who remained clinically stable but showed serologic evidence of an SLE flare (elevation of both the anti-dsDNA level by 25% and the C3a level by 50% over the previous 1-2 monthly visits) were randomized to receive either prednisone or placebo therapy at a dosage of 30 mg/day for 2 weeks, 20 mg/day for 1 week, and 10 mg/day for 1 week. RESULTS Forty-one patients (21 randomized to prednisone and 20 randomized to placebo) experienced a serologic flare. Analysis of severe flares occurring <or=90 days from randomization revealed that 6 occurred in patients taking placebo and none occurred in patients taking prednisone (P = 0.007). Severe flares resulted in an increase in the prednisone dosage to >40 mg/day and/or the addition of an immunosuppressive agent. Furthermore, improvement in scores on the Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Index, decreased levels of anti-dsDNA antibodies, and increased levels of C4 occurred 1 month after initiation of prednisone treatment. CONCLUSION These preliminary data support our hypothesis that in a subset of clinically stable SLE patients with a combination of elevated C3a and anti-dsDNA levels, short-term corticosteroid therapy may avert a severe flare.
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- Chung-E Tseng
- New York University School of Medicine, Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York, New York 10003, USA.
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Jaster M, Fuster V, Rosenthal P, Pauschinger M, Tran QV, Janssen D, Hinkelbein W, Schwimmbeck P, Schultheiss HP, Rauch U. Catheter based intracoronary brachytherapy leads to increased platelet activation. Heart 2004; 90:160-4. [PMID: 14729786 PMCID: PMC1768065 DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2003.013482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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BACKGROUND Vascular brachytherapy (VBT) after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is associated with a higher risk of stent thrombosis than conventional treatment. OBJECTIVE To investigate in vivo periprocedural platelet activation with and without VBT, and to assess a possible direct effect of radiation on platelet activation. DESIGN Of 50 patients with stable angina, 23 received VBT after PCI, while 27 had PCI only. The 23 patients who received VBT after PCI were pretreated for one month with aspirin and clopidogrel. Platelet activation was assessed by flow cytometry. RESULTS The two patient groups did not differ in their platelet activation before the intervention. There was a significant increase in activation immediately after VBT, with 21.2% (interquartile range 13.0% to 37.6%) thrombospondin positive and 54.0% (42.3% to 63.6%) CD 63 positive platelets compared with 12.7% (9.8% to 14.9%) thrombospondin positive and 37.9% (33.2% to 45.2%) CD 63 positive platelets before the intervention (p < 0.001 and p < 0.01, respectively). Patients without VBT had no periprocedural difference in platelet activation immediately after PCI. No increase in platelet activation was found after ex vivo irradiation of blood samples obtained from healthy controls. CONCLUSIONS Catheter based intracoronary VBT carried out according to current standards is highly thrombogenic. The current antithrombotic treatment with aspirin and clopidogrel is not sufficient to suppress platelet activation during the procedure. From in vitro experiments, it appears that platelet activation during brachytherapy is not caused by irradiation but by the procedure of catheter based VBT.
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- M Jaster
- Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Benjamin Franklin, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Rosenthal P, Weber W, Förster A, Orth O, Köhler B, Seiler F. Calibration and validation of a quality assurance system for 90Sr/90Y radiation source trains. Phys Med Biol 2003; 48:573-85. [PMID: 12696796 DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/5/302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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A quality assurance system (OPTIDOS, PTW-Freiburg) developed for dose rate verification of 90Sr/90Y radiation source trains (RSTs) was calibrated and validated. These source trains are used in the 5-F-BetaCath system (Novoste Corp.) for the treatment of endovascular diseases. The calibration factor of the OPTIDOS system was obtained empirically and is valid for 90Sr/90Y dose rate measurements at the specification point which is located at 2 mm distance from the source axis. A total of 187 OPTIDOS dose rate verifications of the 5-F-BetaCath system were performed in different hospitals. The histogram of the deviation between the manufacturer's dose rate specification and the dose rate measured using the OPTIDOS dosimetry system is Gaussian shaped with +/- 3% relative width and a mean shift of about +2% with respect to the corresponding dose rate specification. Additionally, 128 OPTIDOS dose rate verifications of the new jacketed RST (3.5-F-BetaCath, Novoste Corp.) were performed using the same calibration factor as derived for the 5-F-BetaCath system. Distribution of the deviation between the certified and the measured dose rate is nearly identical in comparison to the histogram of the 5-F-BetaCath system. The mean value of the deviations is shifted by -1.5% with respect to the certified dose rate. In order to compare the results of the calibrated OPTIDOS dosimetry system with a standard measuring method, separate dose rate measurements were performed using electron accelerator calibrated radiochromic films in which calibration is traceable to PTB (Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany). Deviation between both the methods is less than 3.1%. These results confirm that the calibrated OPTIDOS dosimetry system can be considered suitable for quality assurance of both types of RST used in the BetaCath systems.
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- P Rosenthal
- Department of Radiation Therapy and Oncology, Freie Universität Berlin, Benjamin Franklin University Medical Centre, Hindenburgdamm 30, D-12200 Berlin, Germany.
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Hoecht S, Rosenthal P, Sancar D, Behrens S, Hinkelbein W, Hoeller U. Implantable cardiac defibrillators may be damaged by radiation therapy. J Clin Oncol 2002; 20:2212-3. [PMID: 11956285 DOI: 10.1200/jco.2002.20.8.2212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Gilger MA, Tolia V, Johnson A, Rabinowitz S, Jibaly R, Elitsur Y, Chong S, Rosenberg A, Gold B, Rosenthal P, Elkayam O, Marchildon P, Peacock J. The use of an oral fluid immunoglobulin G ELISA for the detection of Helicobacter pylori infection in children. Helicobacter 2002; 7:105-10. [PMID: 11966869 DOI: 10.1046/j.1083-4389.2002.00062.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/09/2022]
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BACKGROUND Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) evaluation of oral fluid immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies to Helicobacter pylori is a unique approach for both epidemiological studies and the diagnosis of infection, especially in children. The use of oral fluid sampling to evaluate specific H. pylori IgG antibodies has advantages over serum, including reduced biohazard risk and noninvasive collection. Oral fluid sampling is fast and involves minimal patient discomfort. Since children facilitate transmission of H. pylori infection, a simple, accurate, noninvasive diagnostic test is necessary for large epidemiologic studies. The aim of our study was to evaluate a new oral fluid ELISA for detection of IgG antibodies to H. pylori in children. MATERIALS AND METHODS We compared this new oral fluid ELISA with the HM-CAPTM serum ELISA and gastric biopsy histology using 779 oral fluid samples from children collected at 11 clinical sites across the United States. This cohort included 315 children symptomatic for abdominal pain and 464 asymptomatic. All samples were evaluated in a double blind manner. The oral fluid ELISA demonstrated a sensitivity of 76.2% and a specificity of 94.0% in children 2 months old to 201/2 years, as compared with the HM-CAPTM serologic assay. The assay's sensitivity improved to 81.3% in children aged 5 or greater and the specificity remained at 94.0%. When compared with gastric biopsy histology in the same age group, the oral fluid ELISA demonstrated a sensitivity of 71.7% and a specificity of 90.4%. RESULTS This new oral fluid ELISA is moderately sensitive and offers a very specific method for detecting H. pylori infection in older children, but it is of little value in children under the age of 5 years. CONCLUSIONS Overall, we conclude that this oral fluid ELISA does not appear to be a helpful clinical tool for the diagnosis of H. pylori infection in children.
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- M A Gilger
- Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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The aim of this retrospective analysis was to evaluate the growth of 96 pediatric liver transplant recipients from February 1988 to June 1999. Inclusion criteria were the following: age younger than 18 years, follow-up longer than 1 year, transplantation for a nontumor indication, and no retransplantation. Linear height and growth velocity SD scores were correlated to age, sex, indication for transplantation, immunosuppression, and graft type. Transplant recipients of all ages and indications and both sexes were growth retarded at transplantation. Recipients aged younger than 24 months showed growth within the first year to achieve a height distribution equal to that of an age-matched population. Posttransplantation growth inversely correlated with height standard score at transplantation. Children older than 2 years at transplantation established new growth curves, but remained growth retarded. As children approached the prepubertal growth acceleration, growth deficits frequently were erased. Transplant recipients with biliary atresia and alpha(1)-antitrypsin deficiency showed increased growth performance compared with those who underwent transplantation for chronic hepatitis or fulminant hepatic failure. Boys were less growth retarded at transplantation and showed improved posttransplantation growth performance versus girls. No correlation to immunosuppression or graft type was identified. We conclude that early transplantation of children who show growth retardation is optimal for restoration of growth potential, whereas delaying transplantation in older children impedes potential growth.
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- J F Renz
- Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, USA.
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Bahar RJ, Yanni GS, Martín MG, McDiarmid SV, Vargas JH, Gershman GB, Heyman MB, Rosenthal P, Tipton JR, Nanjundiah P, Starr A, Ament ME. Orthotopic liver transplantation for autoimmune hepatitis and cryptogenic chronic hepatitis in children. Transplantation 2001; 72:829-33. [PMID: 11571445 DOI: 10.1097/00007890-200109150-00015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) and cryptogenic chronic hepatitis (CCH) are important causes of liver failure in children, frequently necessitating orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). The aim of this study is to review disease progression and potential differences between subgroups of children with AIH and CCH. METHODS The medical records of 65 children diagnosed with AIH or CCH between 1980 and 1998 were evaluated. RESULTS The median age at presentation was 9 years, 8 months (range 4 months-19 years), and the median follow-up period was 8 years (range 3 months-18 years, 10 months). Forty-one patients (63%) were female. Twenty-eight patients were Hispanic, 28 were Caucasian, 8 were African-American, and 1 was Asian. Forty-three patients (66%) were diagnosed with type 1 AIH, 8 (12%) with type 2 AIH, and 14 (22%) with CCH. Forty patients (62%) underwent OLT (51% of those with type 1 AIH, 75% of those with type 2 AIH, and 86% of those with CCH). Thirteen (33%) of the transplanted patients experienced disease recurrence. African-American patients experienced a significantly higher rate of disease recurrence post-OLT than did Hispanic patients. Seven patients (11%) died, two without OLT, and five posttransplantation. CONCLUSIONS AIH and CCH frequently necessitate OLT in children. CCH is a more aggressive disease than Type 1 AIH among children with these disorders. Ethnicity influences the rate of disease recurrence after liver transplantation.
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- R J Bahar
- Department of Pediatrics, UCLA School of Medicine, 12-383 MDCC, 10833 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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Benador N, Grimm P, Lavine J, Rosenthal P, Reznik V, Lemire J. Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt prior to renal transplantation in a child with autosomal-recessive polycystic kidney disease and portal hypertension: A case report. Pediatr Transplant 2001; 5:210-4. [PMID: 11422825 DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3046.2001.00061.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Autosomal-recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD) can cause renal failure and portal hypertension in children. Portal hypertension may complicate the course of renal transplantation (Tx). We report the successful outcome of a patient with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and portal hypertension treated with transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS), a minimally invasive endovascular technique of portosystemic shunt, prior to renal Tx.
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- Child
- Female
- Graft Rejection/drug therapy
- Graft Rejection/prevention & control
- Humans
- Hypertension, Portal/complications
- Hypertension, Portal/genetics
- Hypertension, Portal/surgery
- Immunosuppression Therapy
- Immunosuppressive Agents/therapeutic use
- Kidney Failure, Chronic/etiology
- Kidney Failure, Chronic/genetics
- Kidney Failure, Chronic/surgery
- Kidney Transplantation
- Polycystic Kidney, Autosomal Recessive/complications
- Polycystic Kidney, Autosomal Recessive/genetics
- Polycystic Kidney, Autosomal Recessive/surgery
- Portasystemic Shunt, Transjugular Intrahepatic
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- N Benador
- Divisions of Pediatric Nephrology and Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, UCSD School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA 92093-0831, USA.
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Liver transplantation is accepted as the standard management for end-stage liver disease in children. Pediatric heart and heart-lung transplant recipients have shown significantly diminished exercise capacities compared with age-matched, able-bodied, control subjects. The primary aim of this study is to compare the fitness levels of a group of pediatric liver transplant (LT) recipients (LT group, 20 boys, 9 girls; age, 8.9 +/- 4.8 years; 56 +/- 35 months posttransplantation) with a group of able-bodied control subjects (22 boys, 12 girls; age, 8.4 +/- 3.8 years). The secondary aim is to compare the performance of the LT group against the Fitnessgram criterion standards. We assessed muscular endurance by means of a partial curl-up, flexibility by means of the back-saver sit and reach, and cardiorespiratory fitness by means of the progressive aerobic cardiovascular endurance run (PACER). The only significant (P <.05) difference between the 2 groups was the number of shuttles run in the PACER (control, 16.8 +/- 9.8 v LT, 11.5 +/- 8.4 shuttles). Other differences between the 2 groups were not significant. With regard to satisfying the Fitnessgram criterion standards, only 35% of the LT group achieved the standards for the partial curl-up, 88% of the LT group achieved the criterion standards for flexibility, and 0% achieved the standards for the PACER. These results indicate that the LT group has diminished exercise capacity. The origins of exercise limitations deserve further investigation.
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- V B Unnithan
- Exercise and Sport Science, University of San Francisco, 1230 Fulton St., San Francisco, CA 94117-1080, USA.
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Koh BY, Rosenthal P, Medeiros LJ, Osorio RW, Roberts JP, Ascher NL, Gelb AB. Posttransplantation lymphoproliferative disorders in pediatric patients undergoing liver transplantation. Arch Pathol Lab Med 2001; 125:337-43. [PMID: 11231479 DOI: 10.5858/2001-125-0337-pldipp] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To study the clinicopathologic and molecular genetic findings in posttransplantation lymphoproliferative disorders (PTLDs) following pediatric liver transplantation and to determine the applicability of a recently proposed consensus classification system. DESIGN The clinical, pathologic, and molecular genetic findings of 11 PTLDs that occurred in 10 patients are presented. These 10 patients were derived from a group of 121 pediatric patients who underwent liver transplantation at the University of California, San Francisco. The PTLDs were classified using the proposed Society for Hematopathology scheme. Clonality was determined by immunohistochemical detection of monotypic immunoglobulin or by using polymerase chain reaction-based methods to detect monoclonal immunoglobulin heavy-chain gene rearrangements. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) was detected by immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization, or polymerase chain reaction. Epstein-Barr virus typing and the presence of LMP1 gene deletions were also analyzed by polymerase chain reaction. RESULTS There were 3 early lesions, 4 polymorphic PTLDs, and 4 monomorphic PTLDs. Monoclonality was demonstrated in 8 of 9 cases assessed. Epstein-Barr virus was present in all cases; of 9 cases assessed by polymerase chain reaction, the virus was type A in 8 and type B in 1. No EBV LMP1 gene deletions were identified. The corresponding liver explants were negative for EBV in 8 cases and positive in 1 case. Greater than 3 foci of disease and monomorphic PTLD were associated with decreased actuarial survival (P <.05). CONCLUSIONS The prognosis of pediatric patients with PTLD is favorable for early lesions and polymorphous PTLD, particularly in patients with localized disease. Multifocal disease and monomorphic PTLD are associated with an unfavorable prognosis.
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Gugig R, Rosenthal P. Medical therapy of brain edema in fulminant hepatic failure? Are we there yet? J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2001; 32:235-6. [PMID: 11345168 DOI: 10.1097/00005176-200103000-00001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/10/2022]
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Comanor L, Minor J, Conjeevaram HS, Roberts EA, Alvarez F, Bern EM, Goyens P, Rosenthal P, Lachaux A, Shelton M, Sarles J, Sokal EM. Impact of chronic hepatitis B and interferon-alpha therapy on growth of children. J Viral Hepat 2001; 8:139-47. [PMID: 11264734 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2893.2001.00262.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/09/2022]
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Interferon-alpha (IFN) has been approved as treatment for children with chronic hepatitis B (CHB). The aims of this study were to assess the impact on children's growth of the disease itself and of IFN treatment. The growth of 142 children with CHB (70 IFN-treated, 72 untreated) was monitored for a minimum of one year. Regression analysis models were used to determine which of the variables most affected children's growth. After adjusting for racial differences, the population of 142 children with CHB had a mean baseline height for age percentile of 39 and a mean baseline weight for age percentile of 38, which were significantly different (P < 0.0001) from the 50th percentiles of their respective reference populations. The height for age Z score of untreated children was inversely correlated with serum hepatitis B virus DNA and aspartate aminotransferase levels, and the weight for age Z score was inversely correlated with serum hepatitis B virus DNA levels. While undergoing IFN therapy, children displayed a "U-shaped" growth pattern, such that height for age and weight for age Z scores at 3 or 6 months were lower than scores at baseline or 12 months. In this study the average child with CHB showed compromised growth even in the absence of IFN therapy. During IFN therapy, children's growth was temporarily disrupted.
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- L Comanor
- Clinical Research Consultant, Palo Alto, California, USA
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Reichert PR, Renz JF, D'Albuquerque LA, Rosenthal P, Lim RC, Roberts JP, Ascher NL, Emond JC. Surgical anatomy of the left lateral segment as applied to living-donor and split-liver transplantation: a clinicopathologic study. Ann Surg 2000; 232:658-64. [PMID: 11066137 PMCID: PMC1421220 DOI: 10.1097/00000658-200011000-00007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate intrahepatic vascular and biliary anatomy of the left lateral segment (LLS) as applied to living-donor and split-liver transplantation. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA Living-donor and split-liver transplantation are innovative surgical techniques that have expanded the donor pool. Fundamental to the application of these techniques is an understanding of intrahepatic vascular and biliary anatomy. METHODS Pathologic data obtained from cadaveric liver corrosion casts and liver dissections were clinically correlated with the anatomical findings obtained during split-liver, living-donor, and reduced-liver transplants. RESULTS The anatomical relation of the left bile duct system with respect to the left portal venous system was constant, with the left bile duct superior to the extrahepatic transverse portion of the left portal vein. Four specific patterns of left biliary anatomy and three patterns of left hepatic venous drainage were identified and described. CONCLUSIONS Although highly variable, the biliary and hepatic venous anatomy of the LLS can be broadly categorized into distinct patterns. The identification of the LLS duct origin lateral to the umbilical fissure in segment 4 in 50% of cast specimens is significant in the performance of split-liver and living-donor transplantation, because dissection of the graft pedicle at the level of the round ligament will result in separate ducts from segments 2 and 3 in most patients, with the further possibility of an anterior segment 4 duct. A connective tissue bile duct plate, which can be clinically identified, is described to guide dissection of the segment 2 and 3 biliary radicles.
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- P R Reichert
- Department of Anatomy, Universidade de Passo Fundo, and the Disciplina de Cirurgia do Aparelho Digestivo da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Quiros-Tejeira RE, Ament ME, Heyman MB, Martin MG, Rosenthal P, Gornbein JA, McDiarmid SV, Vargas JH. Does liver transplantation affect growth pattern in Alagille syndrome? Liver Transpl 2000; 6:582-7. [PMID: 10980057 DOI: 10.1053/jlts.2000.9739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Alagille syndrome (AGS) is frequently associated with growth failure, which has been attributed to concurrent congenital anomalies, cholestasis, and malabsorption and/or malnutrition. However, the underlying cause of the growth failure is not well understood. Our objective is to analyze the growth pattern in 26 patients with AGS and the possible effect that orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) may have on this pattern. The standardized height, weight, and growth velocity of 26 pair-matched patients with AGS were compared. Thirteen patients underwent OLT. Repeated-measure ANOVA methods were used for the statistical analysis. The overall mean standardized height (z score) was -2.92 in the OLT group versus -1.88 in the non-OLT group (P =.03). The overall mean standardized weight was -1. 21 in the non-OLT group and -1.67 in the OLT group (P =.23). In 15 patients, birth weight was 2.82 +/- 0.4 kg, for a mean standardized weight of -0.95, and weight at diagnosis was 4.53 +/- 2.12 kg, for a mean standardized weight of -1.56. Bone age was delayed in the 9 patients who underwent bone-age analysis. Growth hormone therapy administered to 2 patients did not improve growth. Patients with AGS had growth failure secondary to other factors in addition to liver disease. Growth failure beginning in the prenatal period supports a genetic basis for this feature. Growth improvement up to normal levels should not be expected as a benefit of OLT in these patients. Growth failure as a primary indication for OLT should be cautiously examined in patients with AGS.
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- R E Quiros-Tejeira
- Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center, 90095-1752, USA
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Rosenthal P. The time is right for the use of liver dialysis devices in patients with hepatorenal syndrome. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2000; 31:218-9. [PMID: 10997361 DOI: 10.1097/00005176-200009000-00003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/10/2022]
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Increased survival for young liver transplant recipients has greatly improved. Increasing success has led to broader indications, thereby increasing the number of potential recipients. Pediatric liver centers are developing new strategies to cope with the ever-increasing demands for suitable size appropriate grafts. UNOS is in the process of updating guidelines to regulate the sharing of organs which become available from new surgical techniques. In the future, alternative therapies, such as artificial liver assist devices and techniques of cellular transplantation and genetic modification of hepatocytes, may decrease the number of children who die while waiting for a suitable organ or even obviate the need for the liver transplantation.
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- O Abramson
- Departments of Pediatrics, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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Rosenthal P. Digestive disease week 2000. American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. IDrugs 2000; 3:868-71. [PMID: 16059798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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The latest advances in hepatology were presented in oral and poster presentations. In order to cover the varying subspecialties, the sessions were divided into various sections including 'Acute Liver Failure and Artificial Liver Support', 'Biliary Tract and Immunologic Liver Diseases', 'Cellular and Molecular Biology', 'Clinical and Experimental Hepatobiliary Surgery', 'Hepatotoxicity and Cell Death', 'Transport and Biliary Physiology', 'Viral Hepatitis', 'Evaluation and Treatment of Biliary Disease', 'Necrosis/Apoptosis', 'Portal Hypertension', 'Blood Flow and Vascular Disorders of Cirrhosis', 'Liver Transplantation', 'Fibrogenesis', 'Hepatocellular Carcinoma', 'Metabolism and Genetic Disease', and 'Public Policy, Epidemiology and Decision Analysis'. Drug therapy focused on treatments for viral hepatitis, autoimmune hepatitis, primary biliary cirrhosis and primary sclerosing cholangitis, and recurrent viral disease following liver transplant. High dose interferon therapy or various combinations of interferon/ribavirin (ICN Pharmaceuticals Inc) therapy seem to offer the best current therapy for chronic HCV. PEGylated interferon (F Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd) offers hope for treatment and histologic improvement in patients with chronic HCV. Following liver transplantation, combination interferon/ribavirin therapy may also find success, but caution with new potent immunosuppressant monoclonal antibodies is advised. For HBV, intramuscular H-BIG (NABI) appears to be effective and less costly than iv H-BIG administration following liver transplantation. Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation may hold promise over conventional ethanol injection therapy for small hepatocellular carcinoma. Autoimmune hepatitis may respond to tacrolimus therapy whereas budesonide therapy did not provide any advantage to prednisone therapy. For primary biliary cirrhosis, eicosapentate and ursodeoxycholic acid may provide benefit to some patients while silymarin from milk thistle did not provide any additional benefit. In primary sclerosing cholangitis, high dose ursodeoxycholic acid may provide benefit. Ursodeoxycholic acid may also provide benefit for mothers with intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy by decreasing pruritus, lowering laboratory values and allowing deliveries to occur closer to term.
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- P Rosenthal
- University of California, 500 Parnassus Ave, Box 0136 Muy-East, San Francisco, CA 94143 0136, USA.
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PURPOSE To describe the therapeutic benefits of nonfenestrated gas-permeable scleral contact lenses in the management of patients with ocular surface disease. METHODS The charts of 49 consecutive patients (76 eyes) with ocular surface disease whose management included the use of gas-permeable scleral contact lenses were reviewed. We also developed a questionnaire to assess the impact of lens wear on subjective aspects of activities of daily living. RESULTS The mean age of the 49 patients was 44.6 years (range, 3 to 87 years); 31 patients were female and 18 were male. The most common indication for fitting of the lenses was Stevens-Johnson syndrome (54 [71%] of the 76 eyes). Other indications included ocular cicatricial pemphigoid, exposure keratitis, toxic epidermal necrolysis, postherpetic keratitis, congenital deficiency of meibomian glands, superior limbal keratoconjunctivitis, Sjögren syndrome, and inflammatory corneal degeneration. The mean follow-up was 33.6 months (range, 2 to 144 months). Improvement in best-corrected visual acuity (defined as a gain of 2 or more Snellen lines) was observed in 40 (53%) of the eyes. In eight (53%) of the 15 eyes with active corneal epithelial defects at the time of lens fitting, the defects healed, whereas in the remaining seven eyes the corneal epithelial defects remained unchanged. Forty-five (92%) of the 49 patients reported improvement in their quality of life as a result of reduction of photophobia and discomfort. The mean wearing time of the gas-permeable scleral contact lenses was 13.7 hours per day (range, 4 to 18 hours). Many patients had preparatory surgical procedures before lens fitting (for example, punctal occlusion or mucous membrane grafting), and some had visual rehabilitation surgical procedures (for example, keratoplasty and/or cataract surgery) after lens fitting. CONCLUSIONS Gas-permeable scleral contact lens wear provides an additional effective strategy in the surface management and visual rehabilitation of patients with severe ocular surface disease.
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- T Romero-Rangel
- Hilles Immunology Laboratory, Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
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Rosenthal P, Cotter JM, Baum J. Treatment of persistent corneal epithelial defect with extended wear of a fluid-ventilated gas-permeable scleral contact lens. Am J Ophthalmol 2000; 130:33-41. [PMID: 11004257 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9394(00)00379-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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PURPOSE To report treatment of persistent corneal epithelial defects unresponsive to other therapies by extended wear of a fluid-ventilated gas-permeable scleral contact lens. METHODS In this retrospective study, 14 eyes of 13 consecutive patients referred for the treatment of persistent corneal epithelial defects that failed to heal with conventional therapies or developed epithelial defects after penetrating keratoplasty for persistent corneal epithelial defects were fitted with an extended-wear gas-permeable scleral lens. These included seven eyes of six patients with Stevens-Johnson syndrome and seven eyes of seven patients who did not have Stevens-Johnson syndrome. Twelve eyes had undergone recent penetrating keratoplasty. All 14 eyes were fitted with a gas-permeable scleral contact lens designed to avoid the intrusion of air bubbles under its optic. An antibiotic and corticosteroid were added to the lens fluid reservoir or instilled before each lens insertion in 12 of 14 eyes. The lenses were worn continuously except for brief periods of removal for purposes of cleaning, replacement of the lens fluid reservoir, and examination and photography of the cornea. RESULTS Five of the seven persistent corneal epithelial defects associated with Stevens-Johnson syndrome healed. The persistent corneal epithelial defects of four of these eyes re-epithelialized within 7 days, and a fifth healed in 27 days of gas-permeable scleral lens extended wear. A sixth persistent corneal epithelial defect that failed to heal initially re-epithelialized after a subsequent penetrating keratoplasty and gas-permeable scleral lens extended wear. The seventh eye healed after 3 days of gas-permeable scleral lens extended wear, but the persistent corneal epithelial defect subsequently recurred. Three of seven non-Stevens-Johnson syndrome persistent corneal epithelial defects re-epithelialized within 36 hours, 6 days, and 36 days, respectively. Of the six (six of 14) persistent corneal epithelial defects that failed to heal with a gas-permeable scleral lens extended wear, one subsequently healed after multiple amniotic membrane grafts. Microbial keratitis occurred in four eyes (four of 14) and graft failure in one eye, all of which required repeat penetrating keratoplasty. CONCLUSION Extended wear of an appropriately designed gas-permeable scleral contact lens was effective in promoting the healing of persistent corneal epithelial defects in some eyes that failed to heal after other therapeutic measures. Re-epithelialization appears to be aided by a combination of oxygenation, moisture, and protection of the fragile epithelium afforded by the scleral lens. However, microbial keratitis represents a significant risk.
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- P Rosenthal
- The Boston Foundation for Sight (Drs Rosenthal and Cotter), Boston, Massachusetts 02467, USA.
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Comanor L, Minor J, Conjeevaram HS, Roberts EA, Alvarez F, Bern EM, Goyens P, Rosenthal P, Lachaux A, Shelton M, Sarles J, Sokal EM. Statistical models for predicting response to interferon-alpha and spontaneous seroconversion in children with chronic hepatitis B. J Viral Hepat 2000; 7:144-52. [PMID: 10760045 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2893.2000.00205.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/09/2022]
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To develop prognostic models for identifying children with hepatitis B who are likely to respond to interferon-alpha (IFN-alpha) or to spontaneously seroconvert, we evaluated results of a multinational controlled trial comprising 70 children with chronic hepatitis B who received IFN-alpha and 74 children who did not receive therapy. Prognostic models were developed using SMILES (similarity of least squares), which is a data analysis network that incorporates multidimensional relationships in the clinical data of complex diseases. Commonly collected clinical data included age, gender, serum aminotransferase (aspartate aminotransferase [AST] and alanine aminotransferase [ALT]) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA levels, and IFN-alpha dose. Additional data included pretreatment directional information (e.g. increases or decreases in serum aminotransferase and HBV DNA levels), liver biopsy results, race and transmission mode. Using data available prior to initiation of treatment, the SMILES models achieved prospective predictions of 89% for responders, 96% for non-responders, 100% for seroconverters and 93% for non-seroconverters. Although not predictive by themselves, the variables that had the greatest impact on predictions for IFN-alpha response were HBV DNA pretreatment direction, baseline HBV DNA, IFN-alpha dose and gender. The variables that had the greatest impact on predictions for spontaneous seroconversion were ALT pretreatment direction, baseline HBV DNA level, age and AST pretreatment direction. Therefore, these models may be useful in determining, in children with hepatitis B, the likelihood of response to IFN-alpha and spontaneous seroconversion.
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- L Comanor
- Bayer Diagnostics (formerly Chiron Diagnostics), Emeryville, CA 94301, USA
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Patients with fulminant hepatic failure fall into two categories: those who will not recover without hepatic replacement, and those with severe but potentially reversible liver injury whose livers have the potential to recover and/or regenerate. Liver support systems must provide physiologic support, rendering the patient hemodynamically stable and "bridging" the patient to transplantation, or allowing the native liver to recover and/or regenerate. Recent limited successes with bioartificial liver support for patients with fulminant liver failure are encouraging. However, these preliminary results come without randomization or control groups and without stratification by disease etiology or severity. It is hoped that randomized, controlled trials will answer important questions about the efficacy of these systems.
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- P Rosenthal
- Pediatric Liver Transplant Program, Department of Pediatric Hepatology, University of California, San Francisco, 500 Parnassus Avenue, Box 0136, MU 4-East, San Francisco, CA 94143-0136, USA.
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Dower NA, Smith LJ, Lees G, Kneteman N, Idikio H, Emond J, Rosenthal P. Experience with aggressive therapy in three children with unresectable malignant liver tumors. Med Pediatr Oncol 2000; 34:132-5. [PMID: 10657875 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-911x(200002)34:2<132::aid-mpo11>3.0.co;2-h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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BACKGROUND Children with malignant liver tumors often present with unresectable disease but need not be considered incurable. The advent of effective chemotherapy makes aggressive management feasible, as our experience with three such patients demonstrates. Procedure and Results One child with an unresectable undifferentiated sarcoma of the liver and two others with unresectable primary hepatoblastoma and lung metastases were treated with initial chemotherapy, followed by aggressive surgical management. Treatment with chemotherapy followed by hepatectomy and liver transplantation (cadaveric or live donor) in two children has resulted in disease-free survivals of 79 and 38 months. The third patient is alive and well 24 months following chemotherapy and aggressive resection of the primary and 12 metastatic lesions. CONCLUSIONS Initial chemotherapy for unresectable liver tumors with or without metastases is supported by the review of the literature. Consideration of orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) from cadaveric or living related donor is warranted when the malignancy is demonstrably chemosensitive, independent of initial staging. Aggressive resection of primary and metastatic disease may be called for in selected cases.
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- N A Dower
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Walter C. MacKenzie Health Sciences Center, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Quiros-Tejeira RE, Ament ME, Heyman MB, Martin MG, Rosenthal P, Hall TR, McDiarmid SV, Vargas JH. Variable morbidity in alagille syndrome: a review of 43 cases. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 1999; 29:431-7. [PMID: 10512403 DOI: 10.1097/00005176-199910000-00011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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BACKGROUND Alagille syndrome is one of the most common inherited disorders that cause chronic liver disease in children. Early reports suggested a benign course in these patients. Subsequent reports showed significant morbidity and mortality. This study was designed to analyze the long-term clinical course in Alagille syndrome. METHODS The records of children with Alagille syndrome seen during a 20-year period were reviewed. RESULTS Forty-three patients were identified. Liver disease was diagnosed before 12 months of age in 95%. The frequencies of renal anomalies (50%) and intracranial hemorrhage (12%) were significant. The high incidence of chronic otitis media (35%) has not been reported previously. One patient had a renal transplant. Vascular compromise as a pathologic mechanism for some characteristics of the syndrome is also suggested by the presence of small bowel stenosis and atresia, tracheal and bronchial stenosis, renal artery stenosis, middle aortic syndrome, and avascular necrosis of the humeral and femoral heads. Twenty (47%) patients underwent liver transplantation. Five of six who underwent Kasai procedure required liver transplantation. Twelve died (28%), five after liver transplantation. One patient died of intracranial bleeding. Sixteen (37%) without liver transplantation and 15 (35%) who underwent liver transplantation are alive. CONCLUSIONS Some patients with early-onset and more severe liver disease can benefit from liver transplantation. Careful and complete assessment should be made of infants with a cholestatic syndrome, to avoid misdiagnosis and unnecessary Kasai procedures. Our observation of vascular compromise in various organ systems suggests that notch signaling pathway defects affect angiogenesis in Alagille syndrome.
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- R E Quiros-Tejeira
- Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, University of California Los Angeles Medical Center 90095-1752, USA
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