Widespread clonal B-cell disorder in Sjögren's syndrome predisposing to Helicobacter pylori-related gastric lymphoma

Gastroenterology
S De VitaC A Beltrami

Abstract

Helicobacter pylori has been identified as a critical antigenic stimulus to the development of gastric lymphoma, but additional factors should be required for such evolution. This topic is now of major importance to clarify the pathobiology of gastric lymphomagenesis. Peculiar autoimmune diseases, such as Sjögren's syndrome, are well known to predispose to B-cell lymphomas. We report on a patient with Sjögren's syndrome and a widespread B-cell lymphoproliferative disorder. A pathological picture of low-grade lymphoma was observed in the stomach, concomitantly with H. pylori infection. However, the B-cell disorder was definitely nonmalignant in the other tissues involved, i.e., the parotid gland and lymph nodes, which are the characteristic targets of Sjögren's syndrome-associated lymphoproliferation. After H. pylori eradication, a dramatic regression of gastric lymphoma into chronic gastritis was observed, but no amelioration occurred in the parotid and nodal involvement. Multiple molecular analyses showed the expansion of the same B-cell clone in synchronous and metachronous lymph node, parotid, and gastric lesions before and after H. pylori eradication. Thus, H. pylori played a crucial role in the local boosting of B-cell lym...Continue Reading

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