Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2021 Aug;68(8):e29128. doi: 10.1002/pbc.29128. Epub 2021 May 21.
Thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) causes global endothelial damage and multiorgan injury. No study has described reproductive organ involvement in TMA. Our study aimed to characterize testicular involvement in TMA. We reviewed autopsies from four patients who underwent hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) complicated by TMA. Three patients had striking histologic evidence of TMA, while the fourth had normal testicular histology. This suggests that TMA injures the testicles and may adversely affect fertility. There is now an urgent need for a larger analysis of reproductive organ involvement in TMA.
血栓性微血管病(TMA)可导致全身内皮损伤和多器官损伤。目前尚无研究描述 TMA 对生殖器官的影响。本研究旨在描述 TMA 患者睾丸受累的特征。我们复习了 4 例行造血细胞移植(HCT)后并发 TMA 患者的尸检结果。其中 3 例有明显的 TMA 组织学证据,而第 4 例睾丸组织学正常。这表明 TMA 可损伤睾丸并可能对生育能力产生不利影响。目前迫切需要对 TMA 对生殖器官的影响进行更大规模的分析。