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Clinical features and prognoses of 23 patients with chronic granulomatous disease followed for 21 years by a single hospital in Japan

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In this paper, we examined the details of severe infections, treatment efficacies, and the prognoses of 23 Japanese patients with chronic granulomatous disease (CGD). We described the mean ages at diagnosis and follow-up, which were 2.8 years (range, 0.7–10 years) and 14.9 years (range, 0.2–28.4 years), respectively. There were three deaths, two from Aspergillus pneumonia and one from liver abscess. Eighteen of the 23 patients (78%) had a complete loss of gp91phox, and three had p22-phox and one had p67phox deficiencies. Aspergillus species were found in 45% of 174 severe infections. The mean height and weight of the 20 surviving patients were −0.8 ± 1.3SD and −1.9 ± 1.9SD below the means for age, respectively. Short stature and underweight (below the 10th percentile of the means) for age were seen in 22% and 17% of the patients, respectively. This growth retardation reflects the severity of the disease. At 20 years of age, there was 87% survival. Ongoing prophylaxis with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) or antifungal drugs was given in 16 and 11 patients, respectively. Interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) was given once a week to 14 patients. Four patients underwent hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) and are currently well. There were infections observed in three of 21 identified related carriers of X-linked CGD. A carrier with a liver abscess had 5% normal neutrophils during the acute phase of infection, which returned to 40% normal neutrophils after recovery. The high survival rate in this hospital results from regular follow-up and prophylaxis with TMP-SMX and anti-fungal drugs beginning at the time of diagnosis, along with treatment with weekly IFN-gamma.

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Abbreviations

CGD:

chronic granulomatous disease

DHR:

dihydrorhodamine123

TMP-SMX:

trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole

IFN-gamma:

interferon-gamma

SD:

standard deviation

HSCT:

hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

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    Shinichi Kobayashi, Shizuko Murayama, Sayaka Takanashi, Kumiko Takahashi, Sachiko Miyatsuka, Tomoko Fujita, Sadato Ichinohe, Yuichi Koike, Toshitaka Kohagizawa, Hirosumi Mori, Yasushi Deguchi, Kaoru Higuchi, Hiroaki Wakasugi, Tatsuya Sato, Yasuyuki Wada, Masato Nagata, Nobuhiko Okabe & Osamu Tatsuzawa

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Kobayashi, S., Murayama, S., Takanashi, S. et al. Clinical features and prognoses of 23 patients with chronic granulomatous disease followed for 21 years by a single hospital in Japan. Eur J Pediatr 167, 1389–1394 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-008-0680-7

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