Primary immune deficiency in the intensive care unit: It is never too late to diagnose and treat

Common variable immunodeficiency disorders (CVIDs), a heterogeneous group of primary immune deficiencies, can present at all age. Our patient with a hitherto undiagnosed CVID, symptomatic since middle ages, presented with severe pneumonia. Specific management of his CVID in addition to standard ther...

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Autores principales: Dagaonkar, Rucha S., Sen, Tiyas, Udwadia, Zarir F., Desai, Mukesh B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3190471/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22013312
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.84903
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author Dagaonkar, Rucha S.
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spelling pubmed-31904712011-10-19 Primary immune deficiency in the intensive care unit: It is never too late to diagnose and treat Dagaonkar, Rucha S. Sen, Tiyas Udwadia, Zarir F. Desai, Mukesh B. Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report Common variable immunodeficiency disorders (CVIDs), a heterogeneous group of primary immune deficiencies, can present at all age. Our patient with a hitherto undiagnosed CVID, symptomatic since middle ages, presented with severe pneumonia. Specific management of his CVID in addition to standard therapy was life-saving. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3190471/ /pubmed/22013312 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.84903 Text en © Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Primary immune deficiency in the intensive care unit: It is never too late to diagnose and treat
title Primary immune deficiency in the intensive care unit: It is never too late to diagnose and treat
title_full Primary immune deficiency in the intensive care unit: It is never too late to diagnose and treat
title_fullStr Primary immune deficiency in the intensive care unit: It is never too late to diagnose and treat
title_full_unstemmed Primary immune deficiency in the intensive care unit: It is never too late to diagnose and treat
title_short Primary immune deficiency in the intensive care unit: It is never too late to diagnose and treat
title_sort primary immune deficiency in the intensive care unit: it is never too late to diagnose and treat
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3190471/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22013312
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.84903
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