Jurubiță Roxana, Obrișcă Bogdan, Sorohan Bogdan, Achim Camelia, Micu Georgia Elena, Mircescu Gabriel, Ismail Gener
Department of Nephrology, Fundeni Clinical Institute, 022328 Bucharest, Romania.
Department of Nephrology, "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 020021 Bucharest, Romania.
J Clin Med. 2021 Jun 15;10(12):2624. doi: 10.3390/jcm10122624.
(1) Background: We sought to investigate the clinical outcome and to identify the independent predictors of clinical remission in a prospectively followed cohort of patients with primary membranous nephropathy (pMN). (2) Methods: We conducted a prospective, observational, non-interventional study that included 65 consecutive patients diagnosed with pMN between January 2015 and December 2019 at our department and followed for at least 24 months. The primary outcomes evaluated during the follow-up period were the occurrence of immunological and clinical remission (either complete or partial remission). Univariate and multivariate Cox proportional hazard regression analyses were performed to identify independent predictors of clinical remission. (3) Results: In the study cohort, 13 patients had a PLA2R-negative pMN, while, of those with PLA2R-associated pMN, 27 patients had a low anti-PLA2R antibody titer (<200 RU/mL), and 25 patients had a high anti-PLA2R antibody titer at baseline (≥200 RU/mL). The clinical outcome was better in patients with PLA2R-negative pMN compared to patients with PLA2R-positive pMN. These patients had a higher percentage of complete remissions (46.2%, compared to 33.3% in those with low anti-PLA2R antibody titer or 24% in those with high anti-PLA2R antibody titer), a faster decline of 24 h proteinuria and lower time to complete remission. In multivariate Cox regression analysis, patients with PLA2R-negative pMN had a 3.1-fold and a 2.87-fold higher chance for achieving a complete or partial remission compared to patients with high anti-PLA2R antibody titer or to all PLA2R-positive patients, respectively. Additionally, patients with a baseline 24 h proteinuria of less than 8 g/day and with an immunological remission at 24 months had a 2.4-fold (HR, 2.4; 95%CI, 1.19-4.8) and a 2.2-fold (HR, 2.26; 95%CI, 1.05-4.87), respectively, higher chance of achieving a clinical response. By contrary, renal function at diagnosis, type of therapeutic intervention or anti-PLA2R antibody titer did not predict the occurrence of clinical remission. (4) Conclusions: We identified a different clinical phenotype between PLA2R-positive and PLA2R-negative pMN. Additionally, we have shown that baseline proteinuria seems to be a more important predictor of clinical outcome than anti-PLA2R-ab titer.
(1) 背景:我们试图在前瞻性随访的原发性膜性肾病(pMN)患者队列中研究临床结局并确定临床缓解的独立预测因素。(2) 方法:我们进行了一项前瞻性、观察性、非干预性研究,纳入了2015年1月至2019年12月期间在我科连续诊断为pMN并随访至少24个月的65例患者。随访期间评估的主要结局是免疫缓解和临床缓解(完全缓解或部分缓解)的发生情况。进行单因素和多因素Cox比例风险回归分析以确定临床缓解的独立预测因素。(3) 结果:在研究队列中,13例患者为PLA2R阴性的pMN,而在PLA2R相关的pMN患者中,27例患者基线时抗PLA2R抗体滴度低(<200 RU/mL),25例患者基线时抗PLA2R抗体滴度高(≥200 RU/mL)。与PLA2R阳性的pMN患者相比,PLA2R阴性的pMN患者临床结局更好。这些患者完全缓解的比例更高(46.2%,相比之下,抗PLA2R抗体滴度低的患者为33.3%,抗PLA2R抗体滴度高的患者为24%),24小时蛋白尿下降更快,完全缓解时间更短。在多因素Cox回归分析中,与抗PLA2R抗体滴度高的患者或所有PLA2R阳性患者相比,PLA2R阴性的pMN患者实现完全或部分缓解的机会分别高3.1倍和2.87倍。此外,基线24小时蛋白尿小于8 g/天且在24个月时出现免疫缓解的患者实现临床缓解的机会分别高2.4倍(HR,2.4;95%CI,1.19 - 4.8)和2.2倍(HR,2.26;95%CI,1.