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American Society of Hematology, Blood, 11(122), p. 1954-1962, 2013

DOI: 10.1182/blood-2013-02-483263

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Factor VIII gene (F8) mutation and risk of inhibitor development in nonsevere hemophilia a

Journal article published in 2013 by Corien L. Eckhardt, Alice S. van Velzen, Marjolein Peters, Waander L. van Heerde, A. Makipernaa, Victor Jimenez-Yuste, Russell D. Keenan, Robert Klamroth, Britta A. P. Laros-Van Gorkom, Frank W. G. Leebeek, Ri Liesner, Anne Mäkipernaa, Jan Astermark, Christoph Male, Paul P. Brons and other authors.
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Abstract

Neutralizing antibodies (inhibitors) toward factor VIII form a severe complication in nonsevere hemophilia A, profoundly aggravating the bleeding pattern. Identification of high-risk patients is hampered by lack of data that take exposure days to therapeutic factor VIII concentrates into account. In the INSIGHT study, we analyzed the association between F8 mutation and inhibitor development in patients with nonsevere hemophilia A (factor VIII 2-40 IU/dL). This analysis included 1112 non-severe hemophilia A patients from 14 centers in Europe and Australia that had genotyped at least 70% of their patients. Inhibitor risk was calculated as Kaplan-Meier incidence with cumulative number of exposure days as the time variable. During 44 800 exposure days (median, 24 exposure days per patient; interquartile range [IQR], 7-90), 59 of the 1112 patients developed an inhibitor; cumulative incidence of 5.3% (95% confidence interval [CI], 4.0-6.6) after a median of 28 exposure days (IQR, 12-71). The inhibitor risk at 50 exposure days was 6.7% (95% CI, 4.5-8.9) and at 100 exposure days the risk further increased to 13.3% (95% CI, 9.6-17.0). Among a total of 214 different F8 missense mutations 19 were associated with inhibitor development. These results emphasize the importance of F8 genotyping in nonsevere hemophilia A. ( Blood . 2013; 122(11):1954-1962) © 2013 by The American Society of Hematology.