Clinical features and treatment outcomes of pediatric Langerhans cell histiocytosis with macrophage activation syndrome-hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis

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BACKGROUND: Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a rare myeloid neoplasm. A few LCH patients had Macrophage activation syndrome-hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (MAS-HLH), a life-threatening, hyper-inflammatory syndrome. We retrospectively described the clinical-biological characteristics of a series of 28 pediatric LCH patients with MAS-HLH in a single center. We further analyzed the difference in treatment outcomes between second-line chemotherapy (cytarabine and cladribine) and targeted therapy (dabrafenib) for BRAF-V600E-positive patients.

RESULTS: LCH patients with MAS-HLH were aged < 2 years, harbored high frequencies of risk organ, skin, or lymph nodes involvement, and most of them carried BRAF-V600E mutation in lesions (88.0%) or plasma (90.5%). Patients were firstly treated with the initial induction first-line therapy (vindesine-steroid combination), and most of them (26/28) failed to control the active MAS-HLH after one six-week course of induction treatment. Then they were shifted to second-line chemotherapy or targeted therapy dabrafenib. BRAF-V600E-mutant patients treated with dabrafenib had prompt resolution of MAS-HLH signs and symptoms with less toxicity than second-line chemotherapy. Moreover, the progression-free survival (PFS) rate for patients given dabrafenib was much higher than those treated with chemotherapy (4 year-PFS: 75% vs. 14.6%, P = 0.034).

CONCLUSIONS: LCH patients with MAS-HLH harbored specific clinical-biology characteristics compared to the multisystem LCH without MAS-HLH. The BRAF inhibitor dabrafenib provides a promising treatment option for LCH with MAS-HLH.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:17

Enthalten in:

Orphanet journal of rare diseases - 17(2022), 1 vom: 04. Apr., Seite 151

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Dong [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Xi-Hua [VerfasserIn]
Wei, Ang [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Chun-Ju [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Xue [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Hong-Hao [VerfasserIn]
Lian, Hong-Yun [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Li [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Qing [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Xiao-Tong [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Chan-Juan [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Ying [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Wei [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Tian-You [VerfasserIn]
Li, Zhi-Gang [VerfasserIn]
Cui, Lei [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Rui [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

BRAF-V600E mutation
Dabrafenib
Journal Article
Langerhans cell histiocytosis
Macrophage activation syndrome-hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
Outcome
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 06.04.2022

Date Revised 18.05.2022

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s13023-022-02276-y

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM339091185