Chronic granulomatous disease Dr. Abarna Thangaraj DM fellow Pediatric Immunology and Rheumatology Advanced Pediatric Centre PGIMER
INDEX CASE 1 / Male CHIEF COMPLAINTS : Fever – 3 weeks Cough and cold – 5 days
8 months – fever , respiratory distress Right middle lobe consolidation Treated as pneumonia 9months – fever , respiratory distress Requiring mechanical ventilation Staphylococcus in ET aspirate 1yr – fever for 3 weeks , no respiratory distress No vomiting / loose stools/ abdominal pain/ rash /seizure /abnormal movements
Examination Patient is conscious, oriented to time, place and person No Pallor/ icterus/ cyanosis/ clubbing/ lymphadenopathy Anthropometry: Vitals – stable Weight 10.8kg 0z to -1z ( normal ) Height 73cm -2z to -3z( normal )
DATABASE 1yr old 1 st born out of second degree consanguineous marriage Recurrent episode of pneumonia Staphylococcal pneumonia Salmonella sepsis
QUESTIONS PID ?? How to investigate??
CASE 2
CHRONIC GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE CGD is an inherited disorder in which neutrophil’s phagocytic f u nction do not w ork p r op e r l y . Also known as Bridges–Good syndrome, a n d Q u ie synd r o me . It w a s f i r st r ec o gnized in 1 95 4 . TYPES OF CG D : CGD has 2 distinct fo r ms: X - lin k ed f o r m (70% of p a tients) A utoso m a l r ec e ssi v e fo r m
Most common organisms Staphylococcus aureus Burkholderia sps Aspergillus sps Serratia marcescens Nocardia Salmonella Mycobateria Candida
Investigations Com p let e b l o od co u nt – Mild to moderate leucocytosis Elevated ESR and CRP CXR , CT chest N it r o b l u e tetraz o li u m test ( N B T ) / DHR Flow cytometry C y to c h r o m e C r ed u cti o n ass a y . Genetic analysis
NBT
DHR Neutrophils are stimulated by PMA (Phorbol-12-Myristate -13 Acetate) ------Hydrogen peroxide Hydrogen peroxide reduces DHR to rhodamine Flow cytometry – shift of curve to right ( fluorescence ) CGD – no shift Carriers – double peak
DHR Dihydrorhodamine assay for chronic granulomatous disease: (A) Normal shift of fluorescence peak in a control. (B) No shift in a patient with CGD. (C) Bimodal expression in a female carrier of X-linked CGD. Neutrophils were gated on FSc vs. SSc plot and oxidative burst was evaluated on gated neutrophils.