Dementia in a patient with Thymoma and hypogammaglobulinaemia (Good's syndrome)

Good's syndrome is extremely rare and refers to an acquired B and T cell immunodeficiency in thymoma patients. The authors of this article present a case report of a 75-year-old, caucasian male patient previously subjected to examinations for secondary dementia and recurrent infections, which r...

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Autores principales: de Jesus, Nelson Pedro Ferreira, Carvalho, Patrícia Margarida Serra, Dias, Florbela Maria Grilo, Gaspar, Elsa Maria Filipe, de Moura, José Júlio Alves
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2527547/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18700970
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-90
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author de Jesus, Nelson Pedro Ferreira
Carvalho, Patrícia Margarida Serra
Dias, Florbela Maria Grilo
Gaspar, Elsa Maria Filipe
de Moura, José Júlio Alves
author_facet de Jesus, Nelson Pedro Ferreira
Carvalho, Patrícia Margarida Serra
Dias, Florbela Maria Grilo
Gaspar, Elsa Maria Filipe
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description Good's syndrome is extremely rare and refers to an acquired B and T cell immunodeficiency in thymoma patients. The authors of this article present a case report of a 75-year-old, caucasian male patient previously subjected to examinations for secondary dementia and recurrent infections, which revealed paraneoplastic syndrome arose from thymoma. He underwent thymectomy, while his immunodeficiency syndrome sustained with frequent opportunistic infections, constantly requiring intravenous immunoglobulin treatment.
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spelling pubmed-25275472008-09-02 Dementia in a patient with Thymoma and hypogammaglobulinaemia (Good's syndrome) de Jesus, Nelson Pedro Ferreira Carvalho, Patrícia Margarida Serra Dias, Florbela Maria Grilo Gaspar, Elsa Maria Filipe de Moura, José Júlio Alves Cases J Case Report Good's syndrome is extremely rare and refers to an acquired B and T cell immunodeficiency in thymoma patients. The authors of this article present a case report of a 75-year-old, caucasian male patient previously subjected to examinations for secondary dementia and recurrent infections, which revealed paraneoplastic syndrome arose from thymoma. He underwent thymectomy, while his immunodeficiency syndrome sustained with frequent opportunistic infections, constantly requiring intravenous immunoglobulin treatment. BioMed Central 2008-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC2527547/ /pubmed/18700970 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-90 Text en Copyright © 2008 de Jesus et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
de Jesus, Nelson Pedro Ferreira
Carvalho, Patrícia Margarida Serra
Dias, Florbela Maria Grilo
Gaspar, Elsa Maria Filipe
de Moura, José Júlio Alves
Dementia in a patient with Thymoma and hypogammaglobulinaemia (Good's syndrome)
title Dementia in a patient with Thymoma and hypogammaglobulinaemia (Good's syndrome)
title_full Dementia in a patient with Thymoma and hypogammaglobulinaemia (Good's syndrome)
title_fullStr Dementia in a patient with Thymoma and hypogammaglobulinaemia (Good's syndrome)
title_full_unstemmed Dementia in a patient with Thymoma and hypogammaglobulinaemia (Good's syndrome)
title_short Dementia in a patient with Thymoma and hypogammaglobulinaemia (Good's syndrome)
title_sort dementia in a patient with thymoma and hypogammaglobulinaemia (good's syndrome)
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2527547/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18700970
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-90
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