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ArticleInternal medicine (Tokyo, Japan)2022

Anti-interferon-γ Antibody-seropositive Disseminated Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infection Mimicking POEMS and TAFRO Syndromes.

Chiharu Hidekawa, Ryusuke Yoshimi, Daiga Kishimoto, Hideaki Kato, Masaki Mitsuhashi, Natsuki Sakurai, Yuichiro Sato, Takeaki Uehara, Yuki Iizuka, Takaaki Komiya and 8 more

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Article in Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Chiharu HidekawaDepartment of Hematology and Clinical Immunology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Japan.
Ryusuke YoshimiDepartment of Hematology and Clinical Immunology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Japan.
Daiga KishimotoDepartment of Hematology and Clinical Immunology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Japan.
Hideaki KatoDepartment of Hematology and Clinical Immunology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Japan.
Masaki MitsuhashiDepartment of Hematology and Clinical Immunology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Japan.
Natsuki SakuraiDepartment of Hematology and Clinical Immunology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Japan.
Yuichiro SatoDepartment of Hematology and Clinical Immunology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Japan.
Takeaki UeharaDepartment of Rheumatology, Chigasaki City Hospital, Japan.
Yuki IizukaDepartment of Hematology and Clinical Immunology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Japan.
Takaaki KomiyaDepartment of Hematology and Clinical Immunology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Japan.
Naoki HamadaDepartment of Hematology and Clinical Immunology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Japan.
Hideto NagaiDepartment of Hematology and Clinical Immunology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Japan.
Yutaro SoejimaDepartment of Hematology and Clinical Immunology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Japan.
Reikou KamiyamaDepartment of Hematology and Clinical Immunology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Japan.
Kaoru Takase-MinegishiDepartment of Hematology and Clinical Immunology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Japan.
Yohei KirinoDepartment of Hematology and Clinical Immunology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Japan.
Takuro SakagamiDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University, Japan.
Hideaki NakajimaDepartment of Hematology and Clinical Immunology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Japan.
Yokohama City University · JPKumamoto University · JPYokohama City University Hospital · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Disseminated nontuberculous mycobacterial infection (DNTM) is typically observed in immunocompromised hosts. Recently, it has been reported that healthy individuals with serum neutralizing autoantibodies for interferon (IFN)-γ can also develop DNTM. We herein report a case of anti-IFN-γ antibody-seropositive DNTM caused by Mycobacterium kansasii with symptoms mimicking TAFRO or POEMS syndrome, including anasarca, organomegaly, skin pigmentation, polyneuropathy, osteosclerotic change, thrombocytopenia, serum M protein, high C-reactive protein level, and reticulin fibrosis. The combination of antimicrobial chemotherapy with glucocorticoid and intravenous immunoglobulin improved his symptoms. Glucocorticoids may be an effective method of suppressing the production of anti-IFN-γ antibodies in DNTM.

Indexed as

Castleman DiseaseMycobacterium Infections, NontuberculousOpportunistic InfectionsAutoantibodiesHumansInterferon-gammaAutoantibodiesInterferon-gammaanti-interferon-γ antibodydisseminated nontuberculous mycobacterial infectionMycobacterium kansasiiPOEMS syndromeTAFRO syndrome

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PMID35022342
PMCPMC9424072
OpenAlexW4206017660

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