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High prevalence of IgA class anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) is associated with increased risk of bacterial infection in patients with cirrhosis.

Papp, Mária and Sipeki, Nóra and Vitális, Zsuzsanna and Tornai, Tamás and Altorjay, István and Tornai, István and Udvardy, Miklós and Fechner, Kai and Jacobsen, Silvia and Teegen, Bianca and Sümegi, Andrea and Veres, Gábor and Lakatos, Péter László and Kappelmayer, János and Antal-Szalmás, Péter (2013) High prevalence of IgA class anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) is associated with increased risk of bacterial infection in patients with cirrhosis. Journal of hepatology, 59 (3). pp. 457-66. ISSN 1600-0641

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Abstract

BACKGROUND & AIMS Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) are a non-uniform family of antibodies recognizing diverse components of neutrophil granulocytes. ANCA formation might be induced by protracted bacterial infections or probably reflect an abnormal immune response to commensal microorganisms. Bacterial infections are common complications in cirrhosis with high incidence of episodes caused by enteric organisms, therefore, we sought to study the presence and clinical importance of ANCA in cirrhosis. METHODS Sera of 385 patients with cirrhosis of different etiologies were assayed for ANCA of IgG, IgA, IgA1, IgA2, and secretory IgA subtypes by indirect immunofluorescence and ELISAs. The control group comprised 202 patients with chronic liver diseases without cirrhosis and 100 healthy subjects. In cirrhosis, a 2-year follow-up, observational study was conducted to assess a possible association between the presence of ANCA and clinically significant bacterial infections. RESULTS Prevalence of ANCA IgA was significantly higher in cirrhosis (52.2%) compared to chronic liver diseases (18.6%) or healthy controls (0%, p<0.001 for both). ANCA IgA subtyping assays revealed marked increase in the proportion of IgA2 subtype (46% of total ANCA IgA) and presence of the secretory component concurrently. Presence of ANCA IgA was associated with disease-specific clinical characteristics (Child-Pugh stage and presence of ascites, p<0.001). During a 2-year follow-up period, risk of infections was higher among patients with ANCA IgA compared to those without (41.8% vs. 23.4%, p<0.001). ANCA IgA positivity was associated with a shorter time to the first infectious complication (pLogRank <0.001) in Kaplan-Meier analysis and was identified as an independent predictor in multivariate Cox-regression analysis (HR:1.74, 95% CI: 1.18-2.56, p=0.006). CONCLUSIONS Presence of IgA type ANCA is common in cirrhosis. Involvement of gut mucosal immune system is in center of their formation and probably reflects sustained exposure to bacterial constituents.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: R Medicine / orvostudomány > R1 Medicine (General) / orvostudomány általában
R Medicine / orvostudomány > RC Internal medicine / belgyógyászat
Depositing User: Dr Mária/M Papp
Date Deposited: 16 Sep 2014 08:54
Last Modified: 16 Sep 2014 08:54
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/15027

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