Assessment of Complication Risk Factors in a French National Cohort of Asplenic Patients
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An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- This is an observational study: the protocol does not assign a study treatment.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Asplenia. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- France
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Overview
Spleen could have been surgically removed for trauma, cancer, auto-immune disease, or to perform a diagnosis. Spleen could be non-functional due to radiotherapy or splenic artery embolism. These patients are at risks of infectious diseases due to encapsulated bacteria, cancer, and thromboembolism disease. The purpose of this study is to assess complications occurring in French patients without spleen and to implement new diagnostic tools for follow-up.
Detailed description
Asplenia can be congenital or acquired. Acquired asplenia can be due to diagnostic or therapeutic surgery, splenic artery embolization, or radiotherapy. Incidence of splenectomized patients was estimated between 10 and 15/100 000 persons in 2003. More recent data suggested a decrease in splenectomy due to increase of splenic artery embolization. From 212 to 2016, about 4000 splenectomy had still been performed.
Three different risks are known for asplenic patients: infectious, neoplastic, and thromboembolic. Prevalence rate of infectious complications in splenectomized patients was 3.2% with a mortality rate of 1.4%. A US cohort study including 8149 splenectomized veterans have shown that the risk of cancer was increased, so did the risk of thromboembolic disease, on a 27-year period of follow-up. Pathophysiology of these risks are not well known.
There are very few tools to assess splenic function: Howell-Jolly bodies in red blood cells, scintigraphy. These tools lack sensitivity and are not correlated with complications in asplenic patients.
To better understand how splenic function and how immunity evolves during time in asplenic patients, a longitudinal follow-up could be useful. There may be some differences between splenectomized patients, those who benefited from splenic artery embolization, and those who received radiotherapy. Infectious risk may be different between these three groups. Implementing new tools assessing residual splenic function could improve management of these patients. A prospective follow-up aims at accurately estimate the incidence rate of infectious and non-infectious complications in this population.
Primary outcome measures
- Assessment of complication risk factors [Time frame: 3 years]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- ≥18 year-old
- With asplenia due to splenectomy, splenic artery embolization or radiotherapy
Exclusion criteria
- Genetic asplenia including sick cell disease
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Observational model
- Cohort
Study locations
France · 12 centers
- C.H. d'Angoulême — Angoulême
- C.H. Victor Dupouy — Argenteuil
- C.H. de Béthune — Béthune
- Hôpitaux de Chartres — Chartres
- C.H.U. de Lille — Lille
- C.H.U. de Montpellier — Montpellier
- Hôtel-Dieu - CHU de Nantes — Nantes
- C.H.U. de Poitiers — Poitiers
- … and 4 more centers
Publications
- Kristinsson SY, Gridley G, Hoover RN, Check D, Landgren O. Long-term risks after splenectomy among 8,149 cancer-free American veterans: a cohort study with up to 27 years follow-up. Haematologica. 2014 Feb;99(2):392-8. doi: 10.3324/haematol.2013.092460. Epub 2013 Sep 20. PMID 24056815
- Mebius RE, Kraal G. Structure and function of the spleen. Nat Rev Immunol. 2005 Aug;5(8):606-16. doi: 10.1038/nri1669. PMID 16056254
- Aiolfi A, Inaba K, Strumwasser A, Matsushima K, Grabo D, Benjamin E, Lam L, Demetriades D. Splenic artery embolization versus splenectomy: Analysis for early in-hospital infectious complications and outcomes. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2017 Sep;83(3):356-360. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000001550. PMID 28459796
Identifiers
NCT: NCT04199403 · SPLEEN