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UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) Flow cytometric immunophenotyping in the diagnosis and follow-up of immunodeficient children de Vries, E.; Noordzij, J.G.; Kuijpers, T.W.; van Dongen, J.J.M. DOI 10.1007/s004310100797 Publication date 2001 Published in European Journal of Pediatrics Link to publication Citation for published version (APA): de Vries, E., Noordzij, J. G., Kuijpers, T. W., & van Dongen, J. J. M. (2001). Flow cytometric immunophenotyping in the diagnosis and follow-up of immunodeficient children. European Journal of Pediatrics, 160(10), 583-591. https://doi.org/10.1007/s004310100797 General rights It is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). 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Kuijpers Jacques J.M. van Dongen Flow cytometric immunophenotyping in the diagnosis and follow-up of immunode®cient children Received: 29 March 2001 / Accepted: 15 May 2001 / Published online: 19 July 2001 Ó Springer-Verlag 2001 Abstract From time to time, paediatricians are con- immunode®cient children according to the four main fronted with children who might suer from a primary clinical categories. immunode®ciency disease. For practical purposes, these children can be divided into four main clinical catego- Keywords Flow cytometry á Immunode®ciency á ries: -1) a relatively large group of childrenwith recur- Immunophenotyping rent ear-nose and throat and lower respiratory tract infections, in some cases caused by de®ciencies of anti- Abbreviations AID activation-induced cytidine bodies or complement; -2) children with failure to thrive, deaminase á BTK Bruton tyrosine kinase á intractable diarrhoea or an opportunistic infection CD40L CD40 ligand á ENT ear-nose and throat á which canbe caused by a T-lymphocyte or combined FSC forward scatter á HIV humanimmunode®ciency immunode®ciency; -3) children with infections with py- virus á IFN interferon á IL interleukin á LWB lysed ogenic bacteria or fungi as seen in case of granulocyte/ whole blood á McAb monoclonal antibody á monocyte function de®ciency; and -4) a small hetero- SCID severe combined immunode®ciency á SSC side geneous group of children with recurrence of particular scatter á TCR T-cell receptor á ICF immunode®ciency- infections. Also, acquired immunode®ciency becomes a centromeric instability-facial dysmorphism more commonproblem inpaediatric practice. Flow cy- tometric immunophenotyping of leucocytes appears to be an ecient and rapid tool in the diagnosis and follow- Introduction up of immunode®cient patients, supporting early rec- ognition, before serious infections have compromised From time to time, paediatricians are confronted with the child's general condition. This technique can now be childrenwho might suer from a primary immuno- performed inmanyhospitals. Inthis review, we give de®ciency disease [21]. For practical purposes, these directions for the use of ¯ow cytometric immunophe- children can be divided into four main clinical catego- notyping of leucocytes in the diagnosis and follow-up of ries [7, 26, 28]. The ®rst clinical category comprises the relatively large group of childrenwith recurrent ear-nose and throat -ENT) and lower respiratory tract infections, only in some cases caused by an underlying E. de Vries -&) á J.G. Noordzij á J.J.M. vanDongen immunode®ciency, especially if encapsulated extracel- Department of Immunology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, lular bacteria are found as pathogens. In patients with PO Box 1738, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, hypo- or agammaglobulinaemia, de®cient opsonisation Tel.: +31-10-4088094 with antibodies leads to impaired phagocytosis of these Fax: +31-10-4089456 micro-organisms. Complement de®ciencies are rare and E. de Vries inmost types of complementde®ciencyaected chil- Department of Paediatrics, Bosch Medicentrum, dren present with collagen-vascular disease [15]. How- `s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands ever, some complement de®ciencies lead to severely T.W. Kuijpers impaired opsonisation with recurrent serious bacterial Department of Paediatrics, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands infections resembling agammaglobulinaemia -C3 de®- ciency, factor D de®ciency and factor I de®ciency; to a T.W. Kuijpers Department of Experimental Immunohaematology, lesser extent C2 de®ciency). Most children with recur- Central Laboratory of the Netherlands Red Cross Blood rent, often viral, ENT and lower respiratory tract Transfusion Service, Amsterdam, The Netherlands infections do not have an antibody or complement 584 de®ciency, but are immunocompetent. Their problems of their light scatter characteristics, such as forward are due to other more commoncauses such as bron- scatter -FSC) as measure for size, and side scatter -SSC) chial hyperreactivity, adenoidal hypertrophy, or an as measure for cellular irregularity -Fig. 1) [12]. Leuco- allergic constitution, or they may suer from rare cyte count and dierential cell count can then be used to non-immunological diseases like cystic ®brosis or calculate absolute counts of the blood lymphocyte sub- immotile cilia syndrome. populations, which should be compared with age- The second clinical category comprises children with matched reference values [6]. failure to thrive, intractable diarrhoea or an opportu- Blood sample handling, cell separation methodology nistic infection, which can be caused by a T-lymphocyte and labelling techniques in¯uence the reliability of the or combined immunode®ciency with absent or func- results obtained by ¯ow cytometric immunopheno- tionally de®cient T-lymphocytes. Their defence against typing of leucocytes [12]. Dead cells show increased intracellular micro-organisms is inadequate. The third auto¯uorescence, potentially leading to incorrect inter- clinical category comprises children with super®cial and pretation of staining results. This can be minimised by systemic infections with pyogenic bacteria or fungi, who using freshly collected samples which are fully analysed apparently have problems with their ®rst line of within24 h. The immunophenotypingprocedures take defence against invading micro-organisms as in cases 4±5 h, implying that the sample should arrive in the of granulocyte/monocyte function de®ciency. Finally, laboratory in the morning. Cell separation via density the fourth clinical category comprises a small hetero- gradients may result in dierential loss of speci®c lym- geneous group of children with recurrence of particular phocyte subpopulations. This is avoided when the lysed infections such as recurrent neisserial infections in cases whole blood -LWB) technique is used. The currently of late complement component de®ciency, or recurrent available LWB techniques require fewer preparation mycobacterial infections in cases with a defect in the steps and less sample handling via direct incubation of interferon -IFN)-c receptor, interleukin -IL)-12 or the the anticoagulated blood with McAbs, in combination IL-12 receptor [19]. These last three clinical categories with red blood cell lysis. These LWB techniques also are only rarely encountered in general paediatric prac- reduce non-speci®c binding of McAbs, especially if the tice. applied McAbs are directly conjugated with ¯uoro- Most cases of acquired immunode®ciency are iatro- chromes. genic and can therefore be anticipated: as more and more children are being treated with immunosuppressive drugs, aggressive chemotherapy protocols, and stem cell transplantation, acquired immunode®ciency becomes a more commonproblem inpaediatric practice [4]. Also, the prevalence of paediatric human immunode®ciency virus -HIV) infection in Europe is increasing, especially in children born to parents who originate from HIV- endemic areas [8]. Laboratory studies for identi®cation and clinical follow-up of immunode®cient children can now be per- formed inmanyhospitals. Inthis review, we focus our discussion on the increasingly important role of ¯ow cytometric immunophenotyping of leucocytes in the di- agnosis and follow-up of immunocompromised children inpaediatric practice [12]. Applicationof ¯ow cyto- metric techniques helps to speed up the diagnostic pro- cess, thereby supporting early recognition of primary immunode®ciencies before serious infections have com- promised the child's general condition, reducing the Fig. 1 Flow cytometric immunophenotyping of lymphocytes in the chances of survival [21]. blood of a BTK-de®cient X-linked agammaglobulinaemia patient as compared to a healthy control. -A) Analysis of peripheral blood of a healthy control. Dot plot with FSC and SSC showing ``lympho-gate'', ``mono-gate'', and ``granulo-gate'' -left). The Flow cytometric