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. 2022 Jul 22;13:894648. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.894648

Table 2.

Clinical characteristics of patients.

Patient 1 Patient 2
Sex Female Female
Race/ethnicity White Hispanic
Age at initial presentation <6 months <12 months
Features at initial presentation Chronic diarrhea, poor growth Chronic diarrhea, vomiting, poor growth
Endoscopic features Atrophic small bowel mucosa, with shortened or absent villi and scalloping of folds Stomach with diffuse inflammation, characterized by friability, erythema, and mucus plaques. Duodenum with diffuse villous atrophy and scalloping.
Histologic features Duodenal mucosa with total villous atrophy, crypt hyperplasia, and patchy intraepithelial lymphocytosis Duodenal mucosa with villous blunting, increased intraepithelial lymphocytes and lamina propria expansion by a mixed inflammatory infiltrate. Stomach with moderate to severe chronic active gastritis.
Age at diagnosis of CTLA4 haploinsufficiency 18.8 years 14.0 years
CTLA4 mutation c.457+2T>C De novo heterozygous variant in CTLA4 in exon 1, c71_72del (p.Leu24Profs*35)
Medical history - Celiac-like disease
- Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
- Addison’s disease
- Cytopenias
- Drug-induced lupus (adalimumab)
- Mild scalp psoriasis
- Lichen sclerosis
- Celiac-like disease
- Pulmonary coccidiomycosis
- Erythema nodosum
- Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder
- Depression
Family history - Father with CTLA4 haploinsufficiency and melanoma.
- Paternal first cousin with type 1 diabetes mellitus.
- Maternal grandmother with type 1 diabetes mellitus
Consanguinity None None
Treatments - GFD (NR)
- Budesonide (NR)
- 6-mercaptopurine (cytopenias)
- Methotrexate (NR)
- Adalimumab (drug-induced lupus)
- Prednisone (LOR)
- Abatacept (remission)
- IVIg
- GFD (NR)
- Budesonide (NR)
- Abatacept (remission)
- IVIg
Outcome Clinical and endoscopic remission on abatacept Clinical and endoscopic remission on abatacept
Follow-up period, since diagnosis of CTLA4 haploinsufficiency 5.0 years 2.0 years

NR, non-response; LOR, loss of response; n/a, not available.