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Learning Objectives. Review the 4 types of hypersensitivity reactionsUnderstand the ANCA testDifferentiate then consolidate the different ANCA diseases and Pulmonary-Renal syndromesDo some questions. Vasculitis:. A clinicopathologic process characterized by inflammation of and damage to blood
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1. Small- Vessel Vasculitides
2. Learning Objectives Review the 4 types of hypersensitivity reactions
Understand the ANCA test
Differentiate then consolidate the different ANCA diseases and Pulmonary-Renal syndromes
Do some questions
3. Vasculitis: A clinicopathologic process characterized by inflammation of and damage to blood vessels, often resulting in complete or partial occlusion of the involved vessels, with resulting ischemic damage to the supplied organ/tissue.
4. Vasculitis may be a primary or secondary manifestation of a disease process
May affect a single, or multiple organs
5. Etiology Several have been proposed, however, there is no uniform consensus
For now, lets focus on immune complex deposition a process similar to serum sickness
6. Etiology Ag-Ab complexes deposit in blood vessel walls whose integrity have already been compromised by vasogenic amines (histamine, leukotrienes, bradykinin) released from activated platelets and mast cells
Complement components (primarily the classical pathway) are activated and recruit PMNs
7. Etiology Exactly why only certain immune complexes cause vasculitis and why only certain blood vessels are affected remains in large part a mystery
8. Hypersensitivity Reactions Type I immediate HS
classic allergy
Prior sensitization
IgE mediated
Massive degranulation
Early and late responses Type 2 cytotoxic HS
IgG binds to target tissue
C activation
Direct cytotoxic action
AIHA
ITP
Goodpastures
Myasthenia Gravis
9. Hypersensitivity Reactions Type 3 IC HS
serum sickness
Ab form complex with circulating Ag
Deposition results in C activation
Leukocytoclastic vasculitis is hallmark manifestation
Arthus reaction
Type 4 cell-mediated HS
Delayed-type HS
Previously sensitized T-cells are required
Mantoux test
Contact dermatitis
Allograft rejection
10. ANCA Anti-Neutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibodies
Ab directed against proteins in the cytoplasmic granules of PMNs and monocytes
Wegeners Granulomatosis
Microscopic Polyangiitis
Churg-Strauss
Crescentic/necrotizing GN
11. c-ANCA Serum from patients bind to cytoplasmic granules and show a granular appearance on immunofluorescence
Proteinase-3 (PR-3) is the major antigen
Serine protease
Present in azurophilic granules
Most labs reflexively send a confirmatory test for PR-3 when this pattern is seen, or have eliminated the immunofluorescence aspect entirely
12. p-ANCA Localized, peri-nuclear staining pattern on PMNs
Myeloperoxidase (MPO) is the major target Ag
Elastase
Cathepsin G
Lactoferrin
Lysozyme
Permeability-increasing protein
Only MPO has been convincingly associated with vasculitis, the others may be seen in other ANCA+ diseases (IBD, drugs, endocarditis)
13. Proposed Mechanism of Disease PR-3 and MPO are mobilized to surface of PMNs and monocytes when activated by TNF-a or IL-1
Now can react with circulating ANCA
PMNs degranulate and induce inflammation locally
How the ANCA are generated in the first place is less clear
14. Wegeners Systemic disease
Granulomatous vasculitis of upper and lower respiratory tract with associated GN, variable degrees of disseminated vasculitis
Involves small arteries and veins
Prevalence: 3 per 100,000
Extremely rare in blacks
Equal M:F ratio
Mean age of onset is 40
15. Wegeners Multiple b/l nodular cavitary infiltrates
Lung biopsy: classic granulomatous necrotizing vasculitis
Nasal ulcers, sinus disease, septal perforation, saddle-bridge deformity, tracheal stenosis
Nasal biopsy: usually reveals the same, not as sensitive
FSGS ? RPGN
Kidney biopsy: rarely shows granulomas or immune complex deposition (focal, segmental, necrotizing pauci-immune GN)
16. Wegeners Peripheral WBC tests indicate an unbalanced TH1 cytokine pattern
90% are PR-3 positive (c-ANCA) during active disease
A few pts will be MPO positive rather than PR-3
BUT
You must establish tissue diagnosis!! Aim for lungs.
Must differentiate from other rare diseases such as angiocentric immunoproliferative diseases and lymphomatoid granulomatosis
17. Wegeners Rx Previously, uniformly fatal in matter of weeks to months
Cyclophosphamide (2mg/kg/day)
Maintain WBC >3000 & PMN >1500
6-12 months!!
Glucocorticoids
1mg/kg/day, taper at 1 month and off at 6 months
Remission rate: 75%
90% have marked improvement
Plasmapheresis in refractory/progressive cases
18. Microscopic Polyangiitis Disease entity characterized by a necrotizing vasculitis with few or no immune complexes, affecting small vessels (arterioles, capillaries, venules)
First coined in ???
19. Microscopic Polyangiitis Disease entity characterized by a necrotizing vasculitis with few or no immune complexes, affecting small vessels (arterioles, capillaries, venules)
First coined in 1992, by the Chapel Hill Consensus Conference on the Nomenclature of Systemic Vasculitides
Incidence is uncertain due to previous lumping together with PAN. Etiology unknown.
20. Microscopic Polyangiitis Pauci-immune GN is very common (79%)
renal biopsy is identical to that in Wegeners
Pulmonary infiltrates and hemorrhage may occur as a result of capillaritis, but biopsies lack granulomas
Upper airway disease and pulm nodules/cavities absent
Immunohistochemical staining lacks IC deposition, suggesting that IC complex formation is not part of the pathogenesis
21. Microscopic Polyangiitis 75% of patients are c-ANCA+
Treatment is identical to Wegeners, and distinguishing between the two is somewhat academic
5-yr survival is 74%
22. Churg-Strauss Syndrome Incidence: ~1 per 1,000,000
Occurs at any age, but mean is 48yrs
Clinical Tetrad
Asthma
Eosinophilia (blood and peripheral)
Extravascular granuloma
Vasculitis affecting mutiple organs
Involves small and medium-sized arteries, capillaries, and veins
23. Churg-Strauss Syndrome Granulomatous inflammation with eosinophilic infiltration of involved organs
Lung
Kidney
Skin
Heart
Presents as systemic syndrome (fever, malaise, anorexia, weight loss) with severe asthma attacks (may be precipitated by initiation of leukotriene inhibitors)
24. Churg-Strauss Syndrome p-ANCA sensitivity: 48%
Treatment
Glucocorticoids titrated to control asthma
Add cyclophosphamide as second line as in Wegeners
25. Goodpastures Syndrome A specific subset of anti-GBM disease in which pulmonary hemorrhage occurs
Target: noncollagenous domain of a3 chain of Type IV collagen
Typically seen in young males (5-40y/o)
Type II HS reaction - inflammation and tissue destruction mediated by direct Ab binding and secondary activation of classical C pathway or direct activation of cytotoxic T-cells or phagocytes
26. Goodpastures Syndrome Kidney
RPGN and crescentic GN are most common
Pulmonary hemorrhage (50-60% of all pts), quite rare in patients >50y/o
NOT associated with ANCA positivity
27. Goodpastures Syndrome Gold standard diagnostic test?
Renal biopsy with immunohistochemical staining
Circulating anti-GBM antibodies (IgG) is 90-95% sensitive
Levels directly correlate with severity, organ survival, and relapse
Treatment
Plasmapheresis daily until titers undetectable (1-2 weeks!)
Prednisone 1mg/kg/day
Cyclophosphamide or azathioprine