DEFECTIVE NEUTROPHIL FUNCTION AND MICROBICIDAL MECHANISMS IN THE MYELODYSPLASTIC DISORDERS
DEFECTIVE NEUTROPHIL FUNCTION AND MICROBICIDAL MECHANISMS IN THE MYELODYSPLASTIC DISORDERS
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DOI:
10.1136/jcp.36.10.1120
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发表时间:
1983-01-01
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
CHILD, JA
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作者:
MARTIN, S;BALDOCK, SC;CHILD, JA
Neutrophil function studies were carried out in 44 patients with primary myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). In-vitro tests of phagocytosis and killing of Candida guilliermondii and Staphylococcus aureus identified 13 patients with abnormal neutrophil function [a sign of preleukemia] at presentation and a further 10 who developed abnormalities during the course of their disease. Incidence of defective function in the 5 disease categories was as follows: refractory cytopenia (RC) 8/17; refractory cytopenia with sideroblastic change (RC + SC) 5/8; acquired idiopathic sideroblastic anemia (AISA) 2/4; refractory anemia with excess blasts (RAEB) 7/11; chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) 1/4. Of 23 patients with defective neutrophil function, 11 experienced severe infective complications; in only 3 of these patients were neutrophil counts < 1 .times. 109/l and susceptibility to infection was considered to reflect, at least partially, qualitative neutrophil abnormalities. There was no correlation between absolute neutrophil count and defective function. Abnormal overall neutrophil microbicidal activity was equally associated with impaired and normal phagocytosis. Some patients with intracellular killing defects had reduced myeloperoxidase (MPO) activities and 1 had reduced hexose monophosphate shunt (HMPS) activity. In 2 patients, whose neutrophils showed markedly impaired candidacidal activity, levamisole corrected function when added in vitro at 10-7M and also when administered in therapeutic dosage. Deranged function, probably reflecting abnormalities in maturation of the granulocyte series, occurs across the myelodysplastic spectrum. Several microbicidal mechanisms may be defective.