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Characterization of regulatory T cells in SARS-CoV-2 infected hemodialysis patients: relation to clinical and radiological severity

Article scientifique 2022 Anglais

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BACKGROUND: Disordered Treg counts and function have been observed in patients with SARS-Cov-2 and are thought to contribute to disease severity. In hemodialysis patients, scarce data are available on the Treg response to SARS-CoV-2 or its relation to the clinical presentation. METHODS: A cross-sectional study included one hundred patients divided into three groups, thirty SARS-CoV-2-infected hemodialysis patients (COV-HD), and thirty confirmed SARSCoV-2 infected patients (COV), and forty non-infected hemodialysis patients (HD). Flow cytometric analysis of CD4, CD25, FoxP3, and CD39+ Tregs was done for all patients and tested for correlation to in-hospital mortality, clinical, radiological severity indices. RESULTS: COV-HD and COV patients had significantly lower Treg cell count than HD patients (Median value of 0.016 cell/ μl vs 0.28 cell/ μl, respectively- P: 0.001). COV-HD patients had higher CD39+ Tregs (median value of 0.006 cell/ μl vs 0.002 cell/ μl, respectively- P: 0.04). COV-HD patients had significantly lower hospital stay (median value of 3 vs 13 days, P:0.001), ICU admission rates (26.5% vs 46.7%, P:0.005) and in-hospital mortality (20.7% versus 43.3%, P:0.003) than COV patients. Treg and CD39 expressing Treg counts were not correlated to severity indices in both groups. A high neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio is strongly correlated to disease severity in COV-HD patients. CONCLUSIONS: This study provides evidence of T-cell, particularly T-regulatory cell decline in SARS-CoV-2 and suggests that hemodialysis per se does not distinctively impact the T-cell response. COV-HD patients exhibited a higher CD39+ Treg count and a better clinical profile, however, larger studies are needed to extrapolate on these findings.

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Samaan, E., Elmaria, M., Khedr, D., Gaber, T., Elsayed, A., Shenouda, R., Fadl, H., Shahin, D., Abousamra, N., Shemies, R. (2022). Characterization of regulatory T cells in SARS-CoV-2 infected hemodialysis patients: relation to clinical and radiological severity. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12882-022-03024-x

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Emad Samaan Marwa O. Elmaria Doaa Khedr Tamer Zaki Gaber Ahmed Elsayed Ragy Shenouda Hend Gamal Abu-El Fadl Doaa Shahin Nashwa K. Abousamra Rasha Samir Shemies

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