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Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome

Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome (HPS) is an inherited disease which results in decreased pigmentation (oculocutaneous albinism), bleeding problems due to a platelet abnormality (platelet storage pool defect), and storage of an abnormal fat-protein compound (lysosomal accumulation of ceroid lipofuscin). more...

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The disease can cause poor functioning of the lungs, intestine, kidneys or heart. The major complication of the disease is pulmonary fibrosis and typically causes death in patients ages 40 - 50 years old. The disorder is common in Puerto Rico, where many of the clinical research studies on the disease have been conducted. Neither the full extent of the disease nor the basic cause of the disease is known. There is no known treatment for HPS.

HPS can be caused by mutations in several genes: HPS1, HPS3, HPS4, HPS5 and HPS6. HPS type 2, which includes immunodeficiency in its phenotype, is caused by mutation in the AP3B1 gene.

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Platelet storage pool deficiency of alpha and gamma granules
From Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, 8/1/01 by Biddle, David A

A 23-year-old white woman was admitted to the hospital after experiencing syncopal episodes secondary to anemia. The patient was status postcholecystectomy, followed by endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography 3 times for retained gallstones. She had episodes of melena and hematochezia after these procedures. The last endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography was performed 1 week prior to this admission. The patient had a history of easy bruising and menorrhagia. Bleeding time was prolonged and lasted 15 minutes, and her platelet count was normal. The peripheral smear demonstrated abnormal platelet morphology with agranular and large forms (Figure 1, arrows). Normal platelets were also present on the blood smear. A platelet aggregation study showed abnormally poor responses to arachidonic acid, adenosine diphosphate, collagen, and epinephrine, and a normal response to ristocetin. Electron microscopy of platelets (Figures 2 and 3) showed 2 populations: one with normal distribution of ct granules and 8 (dense) granules, the other with marked decrease in both a granules and 8 granules (Figure 3). The laboratory findings and clinical history were consistent with storage pool deficiency (SPD), including both alpha granule and delta granule deficiency. The patient subsequently received platelet and red blood cell transfusions. She was discharged from the hospital 3 days later in stable condition.

ot granules contain a number of different proteins, including fibrinogen, platelet-derived growth factor, von Willebrand factor, factor V, fibronectin, Beta-thromboglobulin, and heparin-neutralizing factor (platelet factor 4).1,2 delta Granules contain calcium, serotonin, pyrophosphate, adenosine diphosphate, and adenosine triphosphate.1,2 Determination of storage pool organelles by transmission electron microscopy allows the identification of storage pool defects. On electron microscopy, delta granules are electron opaque owing to their high calcium content.3

Platelet storage pool deficiencies comprise a range of disorders with variable degrees of reduction in the numbers and contents of a granules, delta granules, or both types of granules.1,3 The term delta-SPD has been used to identify patients who show only a diminished number of delta granules. Patients with normal numbers of delta granules but decreased alpha granules are designated alpha-SPD. Patients with both ot- and delta-granule defects are designated (alpha)(delta)-SPD. Patients with otSPD were originally described as having a "gray platelet syndrome" because of the agranular appearance of their platelets on peripheral blood smears. However, platelets from patients with (alpha)(delta)-SPD also appear "gray" on blood smear owing to alpha-granule deficiency. Electron microscopic studies have shown that the large vacuoles commonly filling the cytoplasm of alpha-SPD platelets are virtually absent from platelets with the combined (alpha)(delta) defect.2

In most patients with platelet SPD, the platelets aggregate initially to adenosine diphosphate or epinephrine, but second-phase aggregation is frequently markedly diminished. Collagen-induced aggregation is also decreased.2

In many patients the storage pool defect is the only abnormality detected. However, the defect has also been observed in patients with other congenital abnormalities, including Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome, Chediak-Higashi syndrome, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, and the syndrome of thrombocytopenia with absent radius.1-3

References

1. Weiss HJ, Witte LD, Kaplan KL, et al. Heterogeneity in storage pool deficiency: studies on granule-bound substances in 18 patients including variants deficient in oL-granules, platelet factor 4, p-thromboglobulin, and platelet-derived growth factor. Blood. 1979;54:1296-1319.

2. White JG. Inherited abnormalities of the platelet membrane and secretory granules. Hum Pathol. 1987;18:123-139.

3. Weiss HJ, Lages B, Vicic W, et al. Heterogenous abnormalities of platelet dense granule ultrastructure in 20 patients with congenital storage pool deficiency. Br J Haematol. 1992;83:282-295.

Accepted for publication February 1, 2001.

From the Department of Pathology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Tex.

Reprints: David A. Biddle, MD, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 6431 Fannin, MSB 2.292, Houston, TX 77030 (e-mail: David.A.Biddle@uth.tmc.edu).

Copyright College of American Pathologists Aug 2001
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