Frequency and perturbations of various peripheral blood cell populations before and after eculizumab treatment in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.

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Date publication

mars 2021

Journal

Blood cells, molecules & diseases

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Dr PAGLIUCA Simona

Tous les auteurs :
Gurnari C, Graham AC, Efanov A, Pagliuca S, Durrani J, Awada H, Patel BJ, Lichtin AE, Visconte V, Sekeres MA, Maciejewski JP

Lien Pubmed

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33341510

Résumé

While red blood cells (RBCs) and granulocytes have been more studied, platelets and reticulocytes are not commonly used in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) flow-cytometry and less is known about susceptibility to complement-mediated destruction and effects of anti-complement therapy on these populations. We performed flow-cytometry of RBCs and granulocytes in 90 PNH patients and of platelets and reticulocytes in a subgroup (N = 36), to unveil perturbations of these populations during PNH disease course before and after anti-complement treatment. We found that platelets and reticulocytes were less sensitive to complement-mediated lysis than RBCs but not as resistant as granulocytes, as shown by mean sensitive fraction (difference in a given PNH population vs. PNH granulocyte clone size). In treated patients, reticulocytes, platelets, RBCs (with differences between type II and III) and granulocytes significantly increased post-treatment, confirming the role of PNH hematopoiesis within the context of anti-complement therapy. Moreover, we found that PNH platelet clone size reflects PNH granulocyte clone size. Finally, we established correlations between sensitive fraction of PNH cell-types and thrombosis. In sum, we applied a flow-cytometry panel for investigation of PNH peripheral blood populations' perturbations before and after eculizumab treatment to explore complement-sensitivity and kinetics of these cells during the disease course.