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AIDS. 1999 Aug 20;13(12):1503-9. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/99392743
Bart PA; Meuwly JY; Corpataux JM; Yerly S; Rizzardi P; Fleury S; Munoz M; Knabenhans C; Welbon C; Pantaleo G; Meylan PR; Division of Infectious Diseases, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire; Vaudois, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To establish the feasibility of using ultrasound-guided lymph node needle aspiration as a means to obtain lymphoid tissue cells for the determination of a series of immunologic and virologic measures in HIV-infected patients. DESIGN: First, a comparison of the characteristics of cell populations obtained by simultaneous needle aspiration and standard excisional biopsy in six patients. Second, use of lymph node needle aspiration to assess longitudinally T-cell subset changes in patients initiating highly effective antiretroviral treatment. METHODS: T-cell subsets (CD4 and CD8) and percentage Ki67+ cycling T cells were measured in lymph node cell populations harvested by ultrasound-guided aspiration or standard biopsy by flow cytometry. Cellular RNA content was assessed by a modification of the Roche Amplicor HIV-1 Monitor test. RESULTS: CD4 and CD8 T-cell percentage and HIV RNA cell content of lymph node cell suspensions obtained from the simultaneous performance of ultrasound-guided needle aspiration and excisional biopsy in the same patients were correlated (n = 6). Among the 87 aspiration sessions reported here, mononuclear cell suspensions were obtained in 100% of the sessions, in numbers ranging between 4x10(4) to 6.7x10(6) cells (median: 7x10(5)). This limited number of cells did not allow to perform all type of analyses in all patients. By prioritizing the cells for the determination of T-cell subsets and proliferation rate, this approach was instrumental for demonstrating the normalization of the T-cell subset ratio and the kinetic of normalization of proliferating rates of CD4 and CD8 T cells, as well as the decrease in HIV-1 viral load in the lymph node following HAART initiation. CONCLUSION: Ultrasound-guided aspiration appears to be a non-invasive and ad libitum, safe and repeatable procedure for the longitudinal monitoring of changes in lymph nodes.
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