Clinical features and long-term outcomes of interstitial lung disease with anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody

BACKGROUND: Patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD) are occasionally positive for anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs). Differences between ILDs secondary to microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) and isolated ANCA-positive idiopathic interstitial pneumonia (IIP) remain unclear. The aim of this study was to explore the differences in clinical features and outcomes between MPA-associated ILDs and isolated ANCA-positive IIPs.

METHODS: We reviewed 1338 ILDs patients with available ANCA results and retrospectively analysed 80 patients who were ANCA-positive. MPA-associated ILDs (MPA-ILDs group) and isolated ANCA-positive IIPs (ANCA-IIPs group) were compared.

RESULTS: Among 80 patients with ANCA-positive ILDs, 31 (38.75%) had MPA-ILDs, and 49 (61.25%) had isolated ANCA-positive IIPs. Compared with ANCA-IIPs group, patients in MPA-ILDs group had a higher proportion of fever (p = 0.006) and higher neutrophil count (p = 0.011), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) (p < 0.001) and C-reactive protein (CRP) (p = 0.005). Multivariable analysis showed that ESR level was an independent risk factor for mortality in all 80 ANCA-positive ILDs patients (HR 1.028, p = 0.001). Survival in MPA-ILDs group was lower than that in ANCA-IIPs group, and further stratified analysis revealed that ANCA-IIPs patients with elevated ESR or CRP had a worse prognosis than those with normal inflammation markers, with 5-year cumulative survival rates of 60.00%, 86.90% and 100.00% in MPA-ILDs and ANCA-IIPs with and without elevated inflammation markers, respectively.

CONCLUSIONS: Among patients with ANCA-positive ILDs, the prognoses of ANCA-IIPs with normal inflammation markers, ANCA-IIPs with elevated inflammation markers and MPA-ILDs were sequentially poorer. Therefore, stratified treatment should be considered in the management of ILDs patients positive for ANCAs.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:21

Enthalten in:

BMC pulmonary medicine - 21(2021), 1 vom: 16. März, Seite 88

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sun, Xin [VerfasserIn]
Peng, Min [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Ting [VerfasserIn]
Li, Zongru [VerfasserIn]
Song, Lan [VerfasserIn]
Li, Mengtao [VerfasserIn]
Shi, Juhong [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody
Antibodies, Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic
Idiopathic interstitial pneumonia
Interstitial lung disease
Journal Article
Microscopic polyangiitis

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Date Completed 12.10.2021

Date Revised 12.10.2021

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s12890-021-01451-4

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM32283371X