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3910 High Prevalence of Concomitant Autoimmunity in Patients with Rosai-Dorfman Disease

Program: Oral and Poster Abstracts
Session: 201. Granulocytes, Monocytes, and Macrophages: Poster III
Hematology Disease Topics & Pathways:
Adult, Autoimmune disorders, Diseases, Immune Disorders, Immune mechanism, Immunology, Biological Processes, Technology and Procedures, Study Population, Human, Serologic Tests
Monday, December 9, 2024, 6:00 PM-8:00 PM

Mitali Sen, MD1*, Gordon J Ruan, M.D.2, Samuel B Reynolds, MD, BS3, Haadi Ali, MD3, XI Yang, MD4, Diana Morlote, MD5*, Aishwarya Ravindran, M.B.B.S.6*, Lauren Kelly Shea, MD, MS7, Matthew J Koster, M.D.8*, Jithma P Abeykoon, MD2, Hind Salama, MD9*, Xinxin Cao, MD10*, Asra Z. Ahmed, M.D.11, Ronald S Go, M.D.2 and Gaurav Goyal, MD12

1rheumatology, university of alabama at birmingham, Birmingham, AL
2Division of Hematology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
3Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
4Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
5University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
6Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
7O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
8Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
9Divison of Hematology & HSCT, Departement of Oncology, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard-Health Affairs, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
10oncology, Peking union medical college hospital, BEIJING, CHN
11Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
12Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

Introduction:

Autoimmunity in Rosai-Dorfman disease (RDD) has been reported in several case reports and small case series. The recent consensus RDD guidelines even classify “immune-related RDD” as a distinct entity, but little is known about the prevalence and patterns of autoimmune conditions in this rare disease. We conducted this study to evaluate a large cohort of patients with RDD for concomitant autoimmunity.

Methods:

We conducted a retrospective review of cases diagnosed with RDD from five referral centers globally. Data pertaining to autoimmunity were captured in terms of serology and a clinical diagnosis of autoimmune disease (AID) and compared to previously reported prevalence of AID and autoimmunity in the general population and in patients with other lymphomas.

Results:

We included 157 patients diagnosed with RDD from 2003-2023. Median age at the time of RDD diagnosis was 48 years, IQR 35.5-60. This included 103 females (65.6%) and 54 male (34.4%). Racial distribution included 54 Black (34.4%), 52 White (33.1%), 40 Asian (25.5%), 7 Middle Eastern (4.5%) and 4 other (2.5%). 83 patients had multi-systemic disease (52.8%) and 74 had single organ involvement (47.2%). Most common organs involved were skin/subcutaneous tissue (78, 49.7%), lymph nodes (63, 40.1%), bone (54, 34.2%). Tissue next generation sequencing data was available for 100 patients (63.7 %) and showed KRAS mutation (19, 19 %), MAP2K/MEK (13, 13%), other mutations (27, 27 %), and no mutations (41, 41%). Mean ESR at diagnosis of RDD was 28.42 mm/Hr and mean CRP was 19.5 mg/L.

In our cohort, 28 patients (17.8%) were diagnosed with an AID. 19 (67.8%) were diagnosed with the AID prior to the diagnosis of RDD. Most common AID was systemic lupus erythematosus (6, 21.4%), rheumatoid arthritis (5, 17.8%), autoimmune hemolytic anemia (3, 10.7%), polymyalgia rheumatica (2, 7.1%). AID was more common in female vs male (64.3% vs 35.7%, p 0.8) and were more commonly seen in patients with multisystem compared to single organ RDD (60.7% vs 39.3%, p 0.3). Mean ESR and CRP at the time of RDD diagnosis in patients with AID were 40.63 mm/Hr and 37.04 mg/L respectively.

Autoimmune antibodies were tested in 90 patients (57.3%), of which 43 (47.8%) were positive for atleast one autoantibody which included 15 patients (16.7%) with AID and a positive autoantibody and 6 (6.6%) with AID and negative antibodies (p 0.01).

Most common antibodies were ANA (29/83, 34.9%), 42.3% with a titer higher than 1:160. Other antibodies include RF (10/60, 16.67%), anti-neutrophilic cytoplasmic antibody (3/19, 15.8%), double stranded DNA (6/56, 10.7%). Positive Antibodies were more common in female compared to male patients (72% vs 23%, p 0.04) and in patients from China compared to North America (45.7% vs 22.6%, p 0.007). Autoantibody positivity was common in multi-system vs single organ RDD (53.5% vs 46.5%, p 0.9). Mean ESR and CRP in this group of patients were 34.54 mm/Hr and 23.93 mg/L respectively.

Median duration of follow up for our cohort was 32 months (IQR 14-65). Five-year survival was 93.4%. There were a total 8 deaths reported in the cohort, none of which were in patients with underlying AID.

In a multivariable analysis, AID was associated with race (odds ratio [OR] for Middle Eastern compared with Chinese, OR 7, p=0.02) but other factors like organ involvement, mutational status, sex and age at diagnosis were not significant.

Conclusions:

Our study reveals a high prevalence of autoimmunity in RDD, both in terms of AID (17.8 %) and positive autoantibodies (47.8 %), which is much higher than the general population rates of approximately 3% and 16% respectively, and higher than patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, 7.6% and 39%, respectively.

There was a trend toward association of AID with multisystem RDD and among individuals from North America and Middle East compared to China, although auto-antibody positivity was more common in Chinese patients.

Mean ESR and CRP at the time of diagnosis of RDD was higher in the patients who had AID. We did not find any statistically significant association between AID and autoantibody positivity with the underlying driver mutation.

Nearly half of the patients with RDD who also had AID did not have a positive autoantibody, thereby implying the need of clinical evaluation for rheumatological symptoms rather than empiric serological testing.

Overall, this study also highlights the need to explore the biological link between RDD and autoimmunity.

Disclosures: Ahmed: Agios: Current Employment. Goyal: Opna Bio, Seagen: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Recordati: Consultancy.

*signifies non-member of ASH