Peripheral T-cell lymphoma associated consecutively with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis and hypereosinophilic syndrome

Eur J Haematol. 2003 Oct;71(4):303-6. doi: 10.1034/j.1600-0609.2003.00051.x.

Abstract

Both hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis and hypereosinophilic syndrome have been associated with hematologic neoplasms and are respectively related to an overproduction of the cytokines Thelper 1 (Th1) and Th2 by tumor cells or reactive cells. To our knowledge, this is the first time a case of a peripheral T-cell lymphoma consecutively associated with both paraneoplastic conditions has been reported. Importantly, in this case when the lymphoma exclusively involved the bone marrow, severe paraneoplastic systemic damage, a CD8+ suppressor/cytotoxic phenotype and a hypereosinophilia not related to high levels of interleukin (IL)-5 was found. Interestingly, progression of the lymphoma coincided with an increase in the serum levels of several Th2 cytokines and IL-2, a decrease in tumor necrosis factor and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor levels and the onset of a hypereosinophilic syndrome.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Biopsy
  • Bone Marrow Cells / metabolism
  • CD3 Complex / biosynthesis
  • CD8 Antigens / biosynthesis
  • Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
  • Female
  • Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor / blood
  • Histiocytosis, Non-Langerhans-Cell / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Hypereosinophilic Syndrome / pathology*
  • Interleukin-5 / biosynthesis
  • Interleukin-5 / metabolism
  • Lymphoma
  • Lymphoma, T-Cell, Peripheral / complications*
  • Middle Aged
  • Phenotype
  • Th1 Cells / immunology
  • Th2 Cells / immunology

Substances

  • CD3 Complex
  • CD8 Antigens
  • Interleukin-5
  • Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor