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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2020

Cell Versus Cytokine - Directed Therapies for Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) in Inborn Errors of Immunity.

Oliver Wegehaupt, Katharina Wustrau, Kai Lehmberg, Stephan Ehl

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Oliver WegehauptCenter for Chronic Immunodeficiency, Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Immunodeficiency, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
Katharina WustrauDivision of Pediatric Stem Cell Transplantation and Immunology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
Kai LehmbergDivision of Pediatric Stem Cell Transplantation and Immunology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
Stephan EhlCenter for Chronic Immunodeficiency, Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Immunodeficiency, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
University Medical Center Freiburg · DEUniversity Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a heterogeneous hyperinflammatory syndrome with different pathways of pathogenesis resulting in similar clinical presentations. It is best defined and understood if presenting in the context of genetic immunodeficiencies associated with defects of lymphocyte cytotoxicity. In these "primary" forms of HLH, cellular and soluble immune effectors are relatively well characterized. While etoposide-based broad cell-directed therapies remain standard of care, more specific therapies targeting these effectors individually are increasingly available. Anti-CD52 as a cell-directed therapy and anti-IFN-gamma, IL-18BP, and JAK-inhibition as cytokine-directed therapies are expected to broaden the therapeutic options, but the precise role of these drugs in first-line and rescue treatment indications remains to be defined. A number of additional inborn errors of immunity are associated with episodes of immune activation fulfilling the clinical criteria of HLH. Impaired pathogen control is a key driver of hyperinflammation in some conditions, while others are characterized by a strong autoinflammatory component. This heterogeneity of disease-driving factors and the variable severity in disease progression in these conditions do not allow a simple adaptation of protocols established for "primary" HLH to HLH in the context of other inborn errors of immunity. Cytokine-directed therapies hold significant promise in these increasingly recognized disorders.

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AnimalsClinical Trials as TopicCytokinesHumansImmunologic Deficiency SyndromesImmunotherapyLymphohistiocytosis, HemophagocyticMiceCytokinescytokinehemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosisHSCTinborn errors of immunityinflammationpathogenesistherapy

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PMID32457750
PMCPMC7225316
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