Histiocytosis-X.
Histiocytosis-X.
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组织细胞增多症-X。
DOI:
10.1056/nejm198101153040304
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发表时间:
1981
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通讯作者:
Parkman,R
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作者:
Osband,ME;Lipton,JM;Lavin,P;Levey,R;Vawter,G;Greenberger,JS;McCaffrey,RP;Parkman,R
Twelve of 17 patients with histiocytosis-X were immunologically abnormal, as shown by the presence of circulating lymphocytes spontaneously cytotoxic to cultured human fibroblasts or of antibody to autologous erythrocytes. The patients also had a notable lack of histamine H2 surface receptors on their T lymphocytes, suggesting a suppressor-cell deficiency. The lymphocyte abnormalities were reversed in vitro after incubation in a crude extract of calf thymus gland, and therefore all 17 patients were treated with daily intramuscular injections of this extract. With this therapy, 10 patients entered complete remission — a response at least as good as that observed in historical controls treated with chemotherapy. A positive clinical response was associated with an increase in the number of T-cell histamine H2 receptors to normal levels and with correction of the other immunologic abnormalities. The results of this preliminary study justify a larger prospective clinical trial of thymic extract and further investigation of the immunoregulatory mechanisms in histiocytosis-X. (N Engl J Med. 1981; 304:146–53.)