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Winkler I, Steichen E, Kapelari K, Wöckinger P, Neubauer V, Kiechl-Kohlendorfer U, Griesmaier E. Pituitary Stalk Interruption Syndrome - Clinical Presentation and Management of a Potentially Life-threatening Disease in Newborns. J Clin Res Pediatr Endocrinol 2023. [PMID: 37074078 DOI: 10.4274/jcrpe.galenos.2023.2023-1-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/20/2023] Open
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Pituitary stalk interruption syndrome (PSIS) is a rare congenital disease resulting in hypopituitarism of variable degree. Serious courses, due to severe combined pituitary insufficiency, are even rarer and associated with a very early manifestation immediately after birth. First clinical signs are elusive and lead to delayed diagnosis and treatment, often resulting in life-threatening complications. Objective of the current report is to point out early leading symptoms and key issues of neonatal manifested PSIS to increase the awareness, improve the clinical management and thereby enable an early diagnosis and treatment to prevent further complications. This report presents and compares the clinical course and management of two male newborns with manifested PSIS. Early leading symptoms were the same in both patients, including recurrent hypoglycaemia, hyponatraemia, jaundice, cholestasis, sucking weakness and genital abnormalities. Patient 1 developed an infection-induced adrenal crisis, persistent substitution-dependent thrombocytopenia and convulsions due to severe hypoglycaemia in delayed PSIS diagnosis. In patient 2, due to recognised above-mentioned symptoms, endocrine testing and a subsequent cerebral magnetic resonance imaging were performed early and he was diagnosed and treated before major complications occurred. Genetic testing was performed in both patients. GLI2 gene mutation (NM_005270.5:c.2537del; p.(Pro846Argfs*66)) heterozygous was detected in patient 1. No mutation was found in patient 2. Conclusively, the early diagnosis of neonatal PSIS is indispensable in the treatment and prevention of the possible severe clinical manifestation of this orphan disease. Therefore, increased awareness for early leading symptoms and proper clinical management are crucial.
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- Ira Winkler
- Department of Paediatrics II (Neonatology), Medical University of Innsbruck, Anichstraße 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Paediatrics I, Medical University of Innsbruck, Anichstraße 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Paediatrics I, Medical University of Innsbruck, Anichstraße 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Paediatrics II (Neonatology), Medical University of Innsbruck, Anichstraße 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Paediatrics II (Neonatology), Medical University of Innsbruck, Anichstraße 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Paediatrics II (Neonatology), Medical University of Innsbruck, Anichstraße 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Paediatrics II (Neonatology), Medical University of Innsbruck, Anichstraße 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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Pilania RK, Banday AZ, Sharma S, Kumrah R, Joshi V, Loganathan S, Dhaliwal M, Jindal AK, Vignesh P, Suri D, Rawat A, Singh S. Deficiency of Human Adenosine Deaminase Type 2 - A Diagnostic Conundrum for the Hematologist. Front Immunol 2022; 13:869570. [PMID: 35592317 PMCID: PMC9110783 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.869570] [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] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2022] [Accepted: 03/28/2022] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Deficiency of adenosine deaminase type 2 (DADA2) was first described in 2014 as a monogenic cause of polyartertitis nodosa (PAN), early onset lacunar stroke and livedo reticularis. The clinical phenotype of DADA2 is, however, very broad and may involve several organ systems. Apart from vasculitis, children may present with i) Hematological manifestations (ii) Lymphoproliferation and iii) Immunodeficiencies. Patients with DADA2 can have variable patterns of cytopenias and bone marrow failure syndromes. Patients with DADA2 who have predominant haematological manifestations are associated with ADA2 gene variants that result in minimal or no residual ADA2 activity. Lymphoproliferation in patients with DADA2 may range from benign lymphoid hyperplasia to lymphoreticular malignancies. Patients may present with generalized lymphadenopathy, splenomegaly, autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome (ALPS) like phenotype, Hodgkin lymphoma, T-cell large granular lymphocytic infiltration of bone marrow and multicentric Castleman disease. Immunodeficiencies associated with DADA are usually mild. Affected patients have variable hypogammaglobulinemia, decrease in B cells, low natural killer cells, common variable immunodeficiency and rarely T cell immunodeficiency. To conclude, DADA2 has an extremely variable phenotype and needs to be considered as a differential diagnosis in diverse clinical conditions. In this review, we describe the evolving clinical phenotypes of DADA2 with a special focus on haematological and immunological manifestations.
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- Rakesh Kumar Pilania
- Pediatric Allergy Immunology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Advanced Pediatrics Centre, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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- Pediatric Allergy Immunology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Advanced Pediatrics Centre, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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- Pediatric Allergy Immunology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Advanced Pediatrics Centre, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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- Pediatric Allergy Immunology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Advanced Pediatrics Centre, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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- Pediatric Allergy Immunology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Advanced Pediatrics Centre, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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- Pediatric Allergy Immunology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Advanced Pediatrics Centre, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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- Pediatric Allergy Immunology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Advanced Pediatrics Centre, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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- Pediatric Allergy Immunology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Advanced Pediatrics Centre, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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- Pediatric Allergy Immunology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Advanced Pediatrics Centre, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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- Pediatric Allergy Immunology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Advanced Pediatrics Centre, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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- Pediatric Allergy Immunology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Advanced Pediatrics Centre, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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- Pediatric Allergy Immunology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Advanced Pediatrics Centre, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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Zahid H, Hadef R, Labrini F, Yahyaoui A, Messaoudi N. Cold agglutinins revealed by abnormalities to the cell blood count: a case report. Pan Afr Med J 2021; 38:328. [PMID: 34285751 PMCID: PMC8265264 DOI: 10.11604/pamj.2021.38.328.9100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [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: 02/12/2016] [Accepted: 10/13/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Cold agglutinin are erythrocyte antibodies which possess the property of agglutinating red blood cells at temperatures of below 37°C, this phenomenon is reversible after heating. This is usually immunoglobulin M (IgM) class. Their pathogenicity is much more related to their temperature range of activity than their title. As we report in this observation, cold hemagglutination makes it difficult to interpret certain immunological tests such as ABO Rh blood grouping or searching for irregular antibodies (SAI). The discovery of cold agglutinins can be fortuitous revealing itself by disturbances and aberrations in the results of blood count or as part of a suggestive clinical or laboratory table cold hemagglutinin disease. The search for a lymphoid hematological at their diagnosis should be systematic.
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- Hafid Zahid
- Laboratory of Hematology and Immuno-haematology Military Instruction Hospital Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco
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- Laboratory of Hematology and Immuno-haematology Military Instruction Hospital Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco
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- Laboratory of Hematology and Immuno-haematology Military Instruction Hospital Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco
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- Laboratory of Hematology and Immuno-haematology Military Instruction Hospital Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco
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- Laboratory of Hematology and Immuno-haematology Military Instruction Hospital Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco
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Fondoh VN, Fondoh RM, Awasom CN, Edith PL, Ntungwen WA, Roland B, Enow-Tanjong R, Njukeng P, Shang J, Egbengu EP, Maruta T, Etheline A, Leke R, Leo A, Nsame D. Haematological reference intervals for healthy adults in Bamenda, Cameroon. Afr J Lab Med 2020; 9:1193. [PMID: 33392055 PMCID: PMC7756783 DOI: 10.4102/ajlm.v9i1.1193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [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: 04/07/2020] [Accepted: 07/01/2020] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND In the era of evidence-based medicine, haematological reference intervals are essential for the interpretation of data for clinical decision-making, monitoring of treatment and research. It is not uncommon that reference intervals used in most African countries have been obtained from published scientific literature, textbooks, reagent/instrument manuals. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine haematological reference intervals of healthy adults in Bamenda, Cameroon. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study conducted between June and November 2015. Participants were voluntary blood donors at the Blood Bank Service of the Regional Hospital Bamenda aged between 18 and 65 years. The mean, median and standard deviation of the mean were calculated for each haematological parameter. The 95th percentile reference intervals were determined using the 2.5th and 97.5th percentile. The differences between gender for all the parameters were evaluated using the Kruskal-Wallis test. Significance was determined at the 95% confidence level. RESULTS Out of a total of 340 participants, 202 (59.4%) were men and 138 (40.6%) were women. The median red blood cell, haemoglobin, haematocrit and mean cell haemoglobin concentration were significantly higher in men than women (p < 0.001). The median white blood cell, absolute lymphocytes count, absolute granulocytes and platelet counts for men were significantly lower than those for women (p < 0.011). CONCLUSION We propose that the present established haematological reference intervals in this study should be used for clinical management of patients and interpretation of laboratory data for research in Bamenda.
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- Victor N Fondoh
- Administration/Quality Management, Bamenda Regional Hospital Laboratory, Regional Hospital Bamenda, Bamenda, Cameroon
- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, School of Health and Medical Sciences, Catholic University of Cameroon, Bamenda, Cameroon
- Department of Health Economics Policy and Management, Faculty of Business Management, University of Cameroon, Bamenda, Cameroon
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- Administration/Pharmaceutical Management, North-West Regional Fund for Health Promotion, Bamenda, Cameroon
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- Department of Anatomy, School of Health and Medical Sciences, Catholic University of Cameroon, Bamenda, Cameroon
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- Bamenda Regional Hospital Laboratory, Regional Hospital Bamenda, Cameroon
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- Product Safety/Quality Control Mangement, Geochim Sarl, Cameroon
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Science, School of Health and Medical Sciences , Catholic University of Cameroon, Bamenda, Cameroon
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- Laboratory Service, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Yaoundé, Cameroon
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- Department of Medicine and Surgery, School of Health and Medical Sciences, Catholic University of Cameroon, Bamenda, Cameroon
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- East Central and Southern Africa Health Community, Arusha, United Republic of Tanzania
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon
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- Department of Medicine and Surgery, School of Health and Medical Sciences, Catholic University of Cameroon, Bamenda, Cameroon
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- TB-Department, Regional Hospital Bamenda, Bamenda, Cameroon
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- Administration/Management, Regional Hospital Bemenda, Bamenda, Cameroon
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Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a connective tissue disease characterised by extremely high heterogeneity. This heterogeneity concerns the organ involvement, course of disease and prognosis. Unlike in some other systemic connective tissue diseases, especially systemic lupus erythematosus, in SSc haematological disorders occur rarely. When they develop, they affect erythrocytes, leucocytes and platelets. The most common cause of this pathology of erythrocyte abnormalities is microcytic anaemia resulting from micro-haemorrhages with telangiectasias within the digestive mucosa in patients with SSc. In SSc patients with severe haematological disturbances, the differential diagnosis should include overlapping with another systemic connective tissue disease or a haemato-oncological disease (lympho/myeloproliferative syndrome). In SSc patients with monoclonal proteins or cryoglobulins, it is essential to consider a haemato-oncological disease. In such cases, the differential diagnosis should be focused on a paraneoplastic syndrome, especially when the haematological symptoms develop shortly after the diagnosis of SSc and in the elderly.
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