[CIS PIDD] Does this patient have PID?
Yeşim Yılmaz Demirdağ
dryesimyilmaz at gmail.com
Thu Jul 19 22:30:13 EDT 2012
Yes, we thought about FMF but her CRP has never been above 0.6 during the
symptoms, and she usually develops mild-moderate neutropenia when her
symptoms are worse.
Interestingly in the past 5-6 months her symptoms are progressive/chronic,
I cannot say her symptoms are periodic anymore. She does have some upper
abdominal pain intermittently but it lasts only 2-3 minutes. Other than
that there is no symptoms suggesting peritoneal, pericardial, or synovial
involvement. But I will keep this in mind. Thanks.
Y
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Keller, Michael D
<KellerMD at email.chop.edu>wrote:
> Her fevers, adenopathy, and rash could suggest an auto inflammatory
> condition... do her inflammatory markers rise markedly with episodes of
> fever? Untreated FMF has been associated with a high rate of miscarriages.
>
> Mike
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> Subject: Re: [CIS PIDD] Does this patient have PID?
>
> Does she become anemic with her pregnancy losses?
> I don't know what this is but the recurrent pregnancy loss and amnionitis
> sounds like factor H deficiency etc and an HUS-ish picture. I would also
> consider anti-phospholipid syndrome.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jul 19, 2012, at 6:18 PM, Yeşim Yılmaz Demirdağ <
> dryesimyilmaz at gmail.com<mailto:dryesimyilmaz at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
> I am seeing this interesting patient, her symptoms started during her 6th
> pregnancy. She was referred to me because of borderline low IgM and family
> history of C9 deficiency. I am not sure if she has PID. I would appreciate
> your input:
>
> 32 yo white woman with no significant past medical history:
> She started to have daily fever and intermittent rash during the first
> trimester of her 6th pregnancy in April 2009. Her fever and rash continued
> to recur until 32 wk EGA when she had a preterm labor which was preceded by
> a severe chorioamniotis. After treatment she was asymptomatic for about 1
> month.
> In September 2009 her fevers recurred (she was not pregnant at that time),
> she also developed bilateral swollen and tender axillary glands, this was
> diagnosed with "flu", symptoms improved spontaneously within 1 week. She
> was asymptomatic for a couple of months.
> Then in January 2010 she developed high fever and swollen axillary lymph
> nodes. She was pregnant (7th pregnancy) again at that time. She was
> diagnosed with URI and treated with Z-Pack. Her pregnancy resulted in
> miscarriage in February 2010.
> In May 2010 she became pregnant again (8th pregnancy), and in June she
> started to have recurrent fevers, night sweats, and weight loss. She lost
> about 22 lbs in one month. She was evaluated by ID and heme-onc, and an
> extensive work-up for infections and malignancy was negative. This
> pregnancy too ended prematurely and complicated by chorio.
>
>
> In summary in the past 3 years she was diagnosed with the following
> conditions:
> - Daily fever
> - Axillary lymphadenopathy + fever x 2
> - Premature labor and chorioamnionitis x 2
> - Miscarriage x1
> - Mastitis x 2
> - Recurrent facial impetigo, conjonctivitis requiring PO antibiotics
> - Recurrent preseptal cellulitis requiring IV abx, cultures were positive
> for h. flu, strep pnuemo, VRE and propionibacterium
> - Oral candidiasis x 4, esophageal candidiasis x 1 (september 2011) - no
> fungal infection since September 2011.
> - Recurrent genital candidiasis- attributed to PO antibiotics, and
> resolved after diflucan.
> - Candida infection on the L nipple, treated with local antifungal, did
> not recur
> - Streptococcal pharyngitis x 2
> - Questionable hypothyroidism - but most recent labs are normal
> - Chronic diarrhea, weight loss
> There is no history of sinus infections, pneumonia, sepsis, meningitis,
> osteomyelitis, abscess, other type of viral infections (such as Herpes
> simplex).
>
> Weight loss is also concerning, she lost 19 lbs in the past 2 months, and
> since last year she has lost about 40 lbs.
>
> Family history: Brother has C9 deficiency with history of recurrent
> meningitis until age 4 yrs, he is now 23 years old with mild mental
> retardation.
>
>
> Relevant Labs:
> Mild neutropenia intermittently (500-1000), normal ALC, normal eos.
> IgG and IgA WNL, IgM: 50 mg/dl,
> Normal IgG subclasses
> Normal B and T cell subsets
> Normal protein electrophoresis
> Albumin, Prealbumin: WNL
> Recently slightly elevated liver enzymes: in 50s.
> Negative serology for Lyme dis, Toxo, CMV, Herpes, Borrelia, HIV, Hep A,
> Hep B, Hep C, HTLV I and II, Chlamydia
> EBV serology consistent with remote infection
> Quantiferon-TB negative
> C3: WNL, C4: 19, CH50: 190
> C9 function: normal
> Normal lymph proliferation to mitogens, tetanus, and candida stimulus
> Normal response to pneumovax, tetanus, and h. flu
> Normal IgD level
> Stool ova/cyst/parazite/giardia/cryptococcus negative
> Normal TSH and freeT4, low T3
> Serum phospholipids are elevated : 314 (155-275)
> Lupus anticoagulant: Negative
> BM biopsy: negative for malignancy or MDS, no comment on plasma cells
> Colonoscopy: Normal
>
> I wanted to refer this patient to the PID clinic at NIH but she refused to
> go there at this time.
>
> Thanks for your help in advance.
>
> Yesim Yilmaz Demirdag, MD
> Section of Allergy and Immunology
> Department of Pediatrics
> West Virginia University School of Medicine
> Morgantown, WV
> (304) 293 1201
>
>
>
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