High Frequency of Thyroid Disorders in Patients Presenting With Neutropenia to an Outpatient Hematology Clinic STROBE-Compliant Article

Abstract: Granulopoiesis abnormalities have been described in association with thyroid disorders (TD). However, data regarding systematic evaluation of adult neutropenia and concurrent or prior TD are scarce. To investigate the frequency of TD among patients presenting with neutropenia, and the immunophenotypic and immunologic profile of neutropenic patients with concomitant thyroidopathy. Two hundred eighteen consecutive neutropenic patients were prospectively evaluated in our outpatient Hematology Clinic, with a detailed laboratory screen, including thyroid function tests, antineutrophil antibodies, blood lymphocytes immunophenotyping, and detection of T-cell clonality by PCR. Among 218 patients with neutropenia, 95 (43.6%) had TD, 65 chronic immunologic neutropenia, 20 clonal proliferation of T-large granular lymphocytes (T-LGL), 5 autoimmune disorders, and 33 other diagnoses. TD-patients had an increased frequency of recurrent infections compared with other patients (P = 0.045). The following correlations were found: negative correlation between FT3 and absolute neutrophil count (ANC) (r2 = −0.274, P = 0.007), negative correlation between TPO-Abs/TG-Abs and C4 (r2 = −0.16, P = 0.045; r2 = −0.266, P = 0.001), and CD4+ counts were inversely correlated to T4 and positively to TSH (r2 = −0.274, P = 0.024; r2 = 0.16, P = 0.045). In addition, TD-patients had significantly higher percentages of CD4+ lymphocytes (P = 0.003)....
Source: Medicine - Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Research Article: Observational Study Source Type: research