Kidney360 Publish Ahead of Print, published on April 21, 2020 as doi:10.34067/KID.0000432020 Renal Manifestations of Common Variable Immunodeficiency Tiffany N. Caza1, Samar I. Hassen1, Christopher Larsen1 1 Arkana Laboratories, Bryant, Arkansas Correspondence Dr. Tiffany N. Caza Arkana Laboratories 10810 Executive Center Drive Bryant, Arkansas 72022 United States
[email protected] Copyright 2020 by American Society of Nephrology. ABSTRACT Background: Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is one of the most common primary immunodeficiency syndromes, affecting 1/25,000-50,000. Renal insufficiency occurs in approximately 2 percent of CVID patients. To date, there are no case series of renal biopsies from CVID patients, making it difficult to determine whether individual cases of renal disease in CVID represent sporadic events or are related to the underlying pathophysiology. We performed a retrospective analysis of renal biopsies in our database from patients with a clinical history of CVID (n=22 patients, 27 biopsies). Methods: Light, immunofluorescence, and electron microscopy were reviewed. IgG subclasses, PLA2R immunohistochemistry, and THSD7A, EXT1, and NELL1 immunofluorescence were performed on all membranous glomerulopathy cases. Results: Acute kidney injury and proteinuria were the leading indications for renal biopsy in CVID patients. Immune complex glomerulopathy was present in 12 of 22 (54.5%) cases including 9 with membranous glomerulopathy, one case with a C3 glomerulopathy, and one case with membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis with IgG3 kappa deposits. All membranous glomerulopathy cases were PLA2R, THSD7A, EXT1, and NELL1 negative. The second most common renal biopsy diagnosis was chronic tubulointerstitial nephritis, affecting 33% cases. All tubulointerstitial nephritis cases showed tubulitis and a lymphocytic infiltrate with >90% CD3+ T cells.