Background: Current phenotyping of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) into chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) and chronic rhinosinusitis without nasal polyps (CRSsNP) might not adequately reflect the pathophysiologic diversity within patients with CRS. Objective: We sought to identify inflammatory endotypes of CRS. Therefore we aimed to cluster patients with CRS based solely on immune markers in a phenotype-free approach. Secondarily, we aimed to match clusters to phenotypes. Methods: In this multicenter case-control study patients with CRS and control subjects underwent surgery, and tissue was analyzed for IL-5, IFN-gamma, IL-17A, TNF-alpha, IL-22, IL-1 beta, IL-6, IL-8, eosinophilic cationic protein, myeloperoxidase, TGF-beta 1, IgE, Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxin-specific IgE, and albumin. We used partition-based clustering. Results: Clustering of 173 cases resulted in 10 clusters, of which 4 clusters with low or undetectable IL-5, eosinophilic cationic protein, IgE, and albumin concentrations, and 6 clusters with high concentrations of those markers. The group of IL-5-negative clusters, 3 clusters clinically resembled a predominant chronic rhinosinusitis without nasal polyps (CRSsNP) phenotype without increased asthma prevalence, and 1 cluster had a T(H)17 profile and had mixed CRSsNP/CRSwNP. The IL-5-positive clusters were divided into a group with moderate IL-5 concentrations, a mixed CRSsNP/CRSwNP and increased asthma phenotype, and a group with high IL-5 levels, an almost exclusive nasal polyp phenotype with strongly increased asthma prevalence. In the latter group, 2 clusters demonstrated the highest concentrations of IgE and asthma prevalence, with all samples expressing Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxin-specific IgE. Conclusion: Distinct CRS clusters with diverse inflammatory mechanisms largely correlated with phenotypes and further differentiated them and provided a more accurate description of the inflammatory mechanisms involved than phenotype information only.
基金:
Sixth European Union Framework Program for Research [FOOD-CT-2004-506378]; Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen, International Coordination Action [G.0854.09]
第一作者机构:[1]Univ Ghent, Upper Airway Res Lab, De Pintelaan 185, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
通讯作者:
通讯机构:[1]Univ Ghent, Upper Airway Res Lab, De Pintelaan 185, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium[2]Karolinska Inst, CLINTEC, Div ENT Dis, Stockholm, Sweden[*1]Upper Airway Research Laboratory,Ghent University, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Tomassen Peter,Vandeplas Griet,Van Zele Thibaut,et al.Inflammatory endotypes of chronic rhinosinusitis based on cluster analysis of biomarkers[J].JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY.2016,137(5):1449-+.doi:10.1016/j.jaci.2015.12.1324.
APA:
Tomassen, Peter,Vandeplas, Griet,Van Zele, Thibaut,Cardell, Lars-Olaf,Arebro, Julia...&Bachert, Claus.(2016).Inflammatory endotypes of chronic rhinosinusitis based on cluster analysis of biomarkers.JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY,137,(5)
MLA:
Tomassen, Peter,et al."Inflammatory endotypes of chronic rhinosinusitis based on cluster analysis of biomarkers".JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY 137..5(2016):1449-+