Abstract
Background: Chronic subdural hematoma (CSDH) pathophysiology has undergone a paradigm shift from being regarded as solely traumatic to be driven mainly by inflammation. Human leucocyte antigen (HLA) is a gene complex involved in antigen processing and presentation to T lymphocytes, thereby mediating the adaptive immune responses. As specific HLA profiles are associated with inflammatory diseases, patients with a specific HLA profile may have a lower threshold for subdural inflammation, and therefore are predisposed for CSDH development. We hypothesized that (1) CSDH patients have a specific HLA profile compared to a Danish background population, and (2) patients with recurrent CSDH have a specific HLA profile compared to CSDH patients without recurrent CSDH. Methods: Three specific HLA class II haplotypes known to drive inflammatory-mediated diseases were determined in 68 patients with CSDH. The distribution of these three haplotypes in our CSDH population was compared to a Danish population of blood donors using Monte Carlo Pearson’s chi-square test. Furthermore, the distribution of the haplotypes was compared between CSDH patients with and without recurrent CSDH. Results: We found no significant association between either of the haplotypes and the risk of CSDH, and neither of the haplotypes were associated with increased risk of CSDH recurrence. Conclusion: This study did not show an association between selected HLA class II haplotypes and the risk of CSDH or recurrence of CSDH compared with a healthy background population.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Acta Neurochirurgica |
Volume | 165 |
Pages (from-to) | 2399–2405 |
Number of pages | 7 |
ISSN | 0001-6268 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature.
Keywords
- Chronic subdural hematoma
- Genetic disposition
- Human leucocyte antigen