Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; Department of Clinical Medicine (Laboratory of Bioregulatory Medicine), Kitasato University School of Pharmacy, Tokyo, Japan; Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kitasato University, Kitasato Institute Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Int J Infect Dis. 2024 Nov;148:107233. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2024.107233. Epub 2024 Sep 4.
To compare the characteristics and prognosis of patients with nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) pulmonary disease (PD) with pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis (PPFE) with those of patients with nodular/bronchiectatic (NB) and fibrocavitary (FC) NTM-PD.
This multicenter, retrospective, observational study enrolled 32 patients with NTM-PPFE (median age: 70.5 years, 15 females) from six institutions in Japan from January 2003 to December 2018. Their clinical characteristics and response to therapy were compared with age- and sex-matched cohorts of patients with noncavitary NB and cavitary NB/FC NTM-PD.
Patients with NTM-PPFE had a lower body mass index and a higher standard NTM-PD therapy initiation rate than patients with other NTM-PD types. Sputum culture conversion rates were comparable between groups; however, patients with NTM-PPFE had a higher incidence of treatment-related adverse events, including optic neuropathy associated with high-dose ethambutol therapy, lower percent predicted forced vital capacity values, higher serum Krebs von den Lungen-6 (KL-6) levels, and poorer treatment outcomes than the other groups. Cox regression revealed that NTM-PPFE was an independent risk factor for death/pneumothorax (adjusted hazard ratio: 35.3, 95% confidence interval: 3.90-4692).
NTM-PPFE is a unique NTM-PD phenotype with a poorer prognosis than the NB and FC phenotypes.
比较伴有胸膜肺弹力纤维增生症(PPFE)的非结核分枝杆菌(NTM)肺病(PD)患者与结节/支气管扩张型(NB)和纤维空洞型(FC)NTM-PD 患者的特征和预后。
本多中心、回顾性、观察性研究纳入了 2003 年 1 月至 2018 年 12 月期间日本 6 家机构的 32 例 NTM-PPFE 患者(中位年龄:70.5 岁,女性 15 例)。将他们的临床特征和治疗反应与年龄和性别匹配的非空洞性 NB 和空洞性 NB/FC NTM-PD 患者进行比较。
与其他 NTM-PD 类型的患者相比,NTM-PPFE 患者的体重指数较低,标准 NTM-PD 治疗起始率较高。各组间痰培养转换率相当;然而,NTM-PPFE 患者治疗相关不良反应的发生率较高,包括与大剂量乙胺丁醇治疗相关的视神经病变、用力肺活量预计值百分比较低、血清 Krebs von den Lungen-6(KL-6)水平较高以及治疗结局较差,与其他组相比。Cox 回归分析显示,NTM-PPFE 是死亡/气胸的独立危险因素(调整后的危险比:35.3,95%置信区间:3.90-4692)。
NTM-PPFE 是一种独特的 NTM-PD 表型,与 NB 和 FC 表型相比预后更差。