Common Variable Immune Deficiency
Hypogammaglobulinemia factitia- Munchausen syndrome masquerading as common variable immune deficiency
... Studies suggest these patients account for 0.2-1.0% of hospital admissions but this may be an underestimate as the disorder is often unsuspected [2]. A study from the NIH [3] found that patients with factitious fevers ...
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Treatment with rituximab and brentuximab vedotin in a patient of common variable immune deficiency-associated classic Hodgkin lymphoma
... Rituximab, a monoclonal antibody to CD20, has been widely used in B cell NHL. Blockade of CD20 leads to impaired plasma cell differentiation. The rituximab ther- apy is associated with re-distribution of B cell popula- ...
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Gastrointestinal manifestations in a patient with common variable immunodeficiency syndrome
... Mehandru, Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles. Gastrointestinal Disorders Associated with Common Variable Immune Deficiency (CVID) and Chronic Granulomatous Disease (CGD). Curr Gastroenterol Rep. ...
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Fusarium ramigenum, a novel human opportunist in a patient with common variable immunodeficiency and cellular immune defects: case report
... The initial humoral immunological deficit identified, i.e. severe pan-hypogammaglobulinemia, was not consistent with an invasive fungal infection. The slightly lowered CD4 T-cell counts, combined with a reduced T-cell ...
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Immunosuppressive therapy with rituximab in common variable immunodeficiency
... intrinsic immune dysregulation typical of CVID may favor the development of interstitial lung disease, as observed in CVID-like monogenic diseases such as cytotoxic T lymphocyte associated protein-4 (CTLA-4) ...
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Investigations of Immune Response and Interleukin-2 Level in Iranian Patients with Common Variable Immunodeficiency
... Extensive data from the literature have revealed that several molecular mechanisms may participate in the decreased number and impaired function of T cells [4,7,8]. One of the mechanisms involved in T cell defects is the ...
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Levels of Antibodies Specific to Tetanus Toxoid, Haemophilus influenzae Type b, and Pneumococcal Capsular Polysaccharide in Healthy Children and Adults
... of immune competence (25, ...as common variable immunodeficiency (1, 7), selective immunoglobulin G (IgG) subclass deficiency (2, 8), and selective antibody deficiency with normal ...
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The B-cell compartment in antibody-deficient infants and young children – developing common variable immunodeficiency or transient immune maturation?
... a deficiency in switched memory B ...primary immune deficiencies with antibody production ...IgG deficiency, and defective development of any B cell ...
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Posterior Cord Syndrome and Trace Elements Deficiency as an Uncommon Presentation of Common Variable Immunodeficiency
... and deficiency of cobalamin and trace elements, such as copper, zinc, and ...elements deficiency and neurologic ...and immune dysfunction [14, ...
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Common variable immunodeficiency unmasked by treatment of immune thrombocytopenic purpura with Rituximab
... former, common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is a heterogeneous entity cha- racterized by varying degrees of hypogammaglobulinemia and recurrent bacterial ...auto- immune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) ...
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Common variable immunodeficiency (hypogammaglobulinemia) with an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance
... Common variable immunodeficiency (hypogammaglobulinemia) with an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance Med J Malaysia Vol 43 No 3 September 1988 Common variable immunodeficiency (hypogammaglobuli[.] ...
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The involvement of cerebrospinal fluid and lymphatic drainage in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME)
... An alternative term for CFS/ME in the USA is Chronic Fatigue Immune Deficiency Syndrome CFIDS recognising that dysfunction of the immune system is a major feature of this disease.. Many [r] ...
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Functional T lymphocyte immune deficiency in a population of homosexual men who do not exhibit symptoms of acquired immune deficiency syndrome
... To determine whether healthy homosexual men are immunologically impaired, peripheral blood leukocytes (PBL) from 20 male homosexuals were compared prospectively with PBL from 14 age-matched male heterosexual donors with ...
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Is There an Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in Infants and Children?
... There are at least seven additional cases of AIDS patients who received blood products, and in all instances a donor has been identified who has one of the risk factors associated with A[r] ...
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T System Immune-Deficiency in Down's Syndrome
... The cytotoxic pattern using anti-T-cell serum shows diminished numbers of T cells in the Down’s syndrome population as compared to normal newborn infants and children (Fig.. The number o[r] ...
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PARAPROTEINEMIA WITH SECONDARY IMMUNE GLOBULIN DEFICIENCY IN AN INFANT
... It was remarkable that administration of gamma-globulin isolated from normal hu man plasma was followed by a marked in crease of the paraprotein fraction P3. In the case of a primary imm[r] ...
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The role of leptin in innate and adaptive immune responses
... inflammatory and anti-inflammatory factors, including adipo- cytokines, such as leptin, adiponectin and resistin, as well as cytokines and chemokines. Altered levels of different adipo- cytokines have been observed in a ...
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Frequency of immune alterations and micronutrient deficiency in severely malnourished children
... iron deficiency was the most prevalent at 53% (16/30) of the patients, followed by zinc deficiency in 17% ...iron deficiency in 26% (calculated through serum ferritin) and zinc deficiency in ...
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Oral Manifestations of Pediatric Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: A Review of the Literature
... Thalidomide as treatment of refractory aphthous ulceration related to human immune- deficiency virus infection. Clin Infect Dis[r] ...
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Health Related Quality of Life in Common Variable Immunodeficiency
... Fig. 1. SF-36 scales, mean values in (A) CVID patients vs. normal subjects - Italian normative. (B) CVID patients vs. normal subjects (25-34 years). (C) CVID patients vs. normal subjects (35-44 years). (D) CVID patients ...
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