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Serial anti-tuberculous immune responses during the follow-up of patients with tuberculous pleurisy.

ABSTRACT: Little is known about the decay kinetics of interferon (IFN)-? response and its influencing factors in tuberculous pleurisy. We enrolled thirty-two patients with tuberculous pleurisy prospectively and followed up at month 0, 6, and 9, at which time peripheral venous blood was drawn for interferon gamma release assay (IGRA) by means of QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT-GIT). Demographic and clinical data were captured. To identify significant predictive factors influencing the IFN-? response, multiple linear regression analyses were performed. Percentage of CD4+, CD8+, V?2V?2 T cells and Treg cells were measured by flow cytometry. The percentage of QFT-GIT-positive patients at baseline, month 6 and month 9 were 96.9% (30/32), 90.6% (29/32) and 84.4% (27/32), respectively. Quantitative IFN-? response at baseline were significantly correlated with symptom duration (P?=?.003, R?=?0.261) and age (P?=?.041, R?=?0.132). Besides, the decreases of the IFN-? response at month 6 and month 9 were positively correlated with the IFN-? level at baseline. The dynamic tendency of the percentages of Treg cells was similar to the IFN-? responses at each time-point. Quantitative IFN-? response could be influenced by host immune status, instead of disease burden and anti-tuberculosis treatment. IGRA is probably not a useful biomarker of treatment efficacy in tuberculous pleurisy.

SUBMITTER: Zhang BY

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6959865 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Serial anti-tuberculous immune responses during the follow-up of patients with tuberculous pleurisy.

Zhang Bing-Yan BY Yu Zhi-Min ZM Yang Qing-Luan QL Liu Qian-Qian QQ Chen Hua-Xin HX Wu Jing J Wang Sen S Shao Ling-Yun LY Weng Xin-Hua XH Ou Qin-Fang QF Gao Yan Y Zhang Wen-Hong WH

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Little is known about the decay kinetics of interferon (IFN)-γ response and its influencing factors in tuberculous pleurisy. We enrolled thirty-two patients with tuberculous pleurisy prospectively and followed up at month 0, 6, and 9, at which time peripheral venous blood was drawn for interferon gamma release assay (IGRA) by means of QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT-GIT). Demographic and clinical data were captured. To identify significant predictive factors influencing the IFN-γ response, mult ...[more]

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Project description:Corticosteroids used in addition to antituberculous therapy have been reported to benefit people with tuberculous pleurisy. However, research findings are inconsistent and raise doubt as to whether such treatment is worthwhile. There is also concern regarding the potential adverse effects of corticosteroids, especially in HIV-positive people.To evaluate the effects of adding corticosteroids to drug regimens for tuberculous pleural effusion.In April 2016, we searched the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group Specialized Register, CENTRAL (the Cochrane Library), MEDLINE, Embase, LILACS, Current Controlled Trials, and the reference lists of articles identified by the literature search.Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and quasi-RCTs that compared any corticosteroid with no treatment, placebo, or other active treatment (both groups should have received the same antituberculous drug regimen) in people diagnosed with tuberculous pleurisy.Two review authors independently screened the search results, extracted data from the included trials, and assessed trial methodological quality using the Cochrane 'Risk of bias' tool. We analysed the data using risk ratios (RR) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs). We applied the fixed-effect model in the absence of statistically significant heterogeneity.Six trials with 590 participants met the inclusion criteria, which were conducted in Asia (three trials), Africa (two trials), and Europe (one trial). Two trials were in HIV-negative people, one trial was in HIV-positive people, and three trials did not report HIV status.Corticosteroids may reduce the time to resolution of pleural effusion. Risk of residual pleural effusion on chest X-ray was reduced by 45% at eight weeks (RR 0.54, 95% CI 0.37 to 0.78; 237 participants, 2 trials, low certainty evidence), and 65% at 24 weeks (RR 0.35, 95% CI 0.18 to 0.66; 237 participants, 2 trials, low certainty evidence).Compared with control, corticosteroids may reduce the risk of having pleural changes (such as pleural thickening or pleural adhesions), on chest X-ray at the end of follow-up by almost one third (RR 0.72, 95% CI 0.57 to 0.92; 393 participants, 5 trials,low certainty evidence), which translates to an absolute risk reduction of 16%.One trial reported deaths in people that were HIV-positive, with no obvious difference between the groups; the trial authors' analysis suggests that the deaths observed in this trial were related to HIV disease rather than pleural TB (RR 0.91, 95% CI 0.64 to 1.31; 197 participants, 1 trial).We found limited data on long-term functional respiratory impairment on 187 people in two trials, which reported that average percentage predicted forced vital capacity was similar in the group receiving prednisolone and in the control group (very low certainty evidence).The risk of adverse events that led to discontinuation of the trial drug was higher in people with pleural TB receiving corticosteroids (RR 2.78, 95% CI 1.11 to 6.94; 587 participants, 6 trials, low certainty evidence). The trial in HIV-positive people reported on six different HIV-related infections, with no obvious differences. However, cases of Kaposi's sarcoma were only seen in the corticosteroid group (with 6/99 cases in the steroid group compared to 0/98 in the control group) (very low certainty evidence).Long-term respiratory function is potentially the most important outcome for assessing the effects of adjunctive treatments for people with pleural TB. However, the information on the impact of pleural TB on long-term respiratory function is unknown and could be eclipsed by other risk factors, such as concurrent pulmonary TB, smoking, and HIV. This probably needs to be quantified to help decide whether further trials of corticosteroids for pleural TB would be worthwhile.

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Serial anti-tuberculous immune responses during the follow-up of patients with tuberculous pleurisy.

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Serial anti-tuberculous immune responses during the follow-up of patients with tuberculous pleurisy.

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