PF4 Antibody Persistence and Long-term Pathogenicity in VITT
Anand Padmanabhan, Professor and Consultant at Mayo Clinic, shared on LinkedIn:
”Congrats to Adam Kanack, Emily Mauch, Guillaume Roberge, and coauthors related to their study on long-term persistence and pathogenicity of VITT antibodies.
Key points:
– Despite clonal restriction of Anti-PF4 abs in VITT, unlike MGTS, these monoclonal spikes are not seen when the entire IgG repertoire is examined. You unmask anti-PF4 clonal restriction only when you isolate the anti-PF4 antibodies
– In some cases, VITT abs can comprise kappa light chains (dogma to date is that it can only be lambda)
– As shown in a case in our report, thrombocytopenia can persist for more than 4 years.”
Read the full article here.
Title: Platelet Factor 4 Antibody Persistence and Long-term Pathogenicity in Vaccine-induced Immune Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia
Authors: Adam Kanack, Emily Mauch, Guillaume Roberge, Noah Splinter, Krishna Gundabolu, Geoffrey D. Wool, Gemlyn George, Mouhamed Yazan Abou-Ismail, Kristi J. Smock, David L. Green, Jonathan Coker, Mindy C. Kohlhagen, David L. Murray, Anand Padmanabhan
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