Screening for type II hereditary angioedema-the "poor man's c1-inhibitor function"

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Background: Hereditary angioedema (HAE) is a rare genetic disease. Patients with type II HAE have normal or elevated C1-inhibitor (C1-INH) levels but C1-INH protein is dysfunctional. C1-INH function requires careful sample handling and technical expertise and may account for the lack of diagnosed patients with type II HAE in resource-limited countries.

Objective: We sought to assess the diagnostic performance of elevated C1-INH levels in diagnosing type II HAE.

Methods: All patients with confirmed type II HAE in Hong Kong and India were analyzed. Diagnosis was confirmed by persistent low C1-INH function and/or pathogenic SERPING1 gene mutations. Their C1-INH levels were compared with those of matched controls.

Results: A total of 31 (14 Chinese, 17 Indian) patients with type II HAE and 31 matched controls were analyzed. Overall, 77.4% (24/31) of patients with type II HAE had elevated C1-INH levels compared with 38.7% (12 of 31) of controls (odds ratio, 2.00; 95% CI, 1.34-2.98; P = .017). C1-INH levels in patients with type II HAE were significantly higher than in controls (52.2 ± 20.0 mg/dL vs 29.1 ±3.6 mg/dL; P < .001). Findings were consistent when C1-INH values in the Chinese and Indian subgroups were analyzed separately. Receiver-operating characteristic curve demonstrated excellent performance for elevated C1-INH levels to diagnose patients with type II HAE with an area under the curve of 0.953 (95% CI, 0.941-0.992; P < .001). Positive and negative predictive values of both a low C4 and an elevated C1-INH level for patients with type II HAE were 100% and 82.9%, respectively.

Conclusions: Low C4 and elevated C1-INH levels may be considered as a screening tool for type II HAE, especially in countries where C1-INH function testing is not readily available.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

2023

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:3

Enthalten in:

The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. Global - 3(2023), 1 vom: 17. Feb., Seite 100179

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jindal, Ankur Kumar [VerfasserIn]
Chiang, Valerie [VerfasserIn]
Barman, Prabal [VerfasserIn]
Sil, Archan [VerfasserIn]
Chawla, Sanchi [VerfasserIn]
Au, Elaine Y L [VerfasserIn]
Rawat, Amit [VerfasserIn]
Li, Philip H [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

C1 inhibitor
Function
Hereditary angioedema
Journal Article
Level
Screening
Type 2 HAE

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Date Revised 01.12.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jacig.2023.100179

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM365176494