An unusual cause of recurrent pneumonia in adults

Selective IgM deficiency is a rare primary immunodeficiency defined as isolated low levels of IgM. It presents with recurrent infections and has been described as first presenting in adulthood with recurrent respiratory tract infections. Unlike its better known counterpart of IgA deficiency, this pa...

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Autores principales: Dhir, Varun, Sagar, Vinay, Aggarwal, Ashutosh, Rawat, Amit, Singhal, Manphool
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4129610/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25125825
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.135787
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author Dhir, Varun
Sagar, Vinay
Aggarwal, Ashutosh
Rawat, Amit
Singhal, Manphool
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description Selective IgM deficiency is a rare primary immunodeficiency defined as isolated low levels of IgM. It presents with recurrent infections and has been described as first presenting in adulthood with recurrent respiratory tract infections. Unlike its better known counterpart of IgA deficiency, this particular immunodeficiency is often overlooked. We present a case of selective IgM deficiency who presented with recurrent respiratory infections.
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spelling pubmed-41296102014-08-14 An unusual cause of recurrent pneumonia in adults Dhir, Varun Sagar, Vinay Aggarwal, Ashutosh Rawat, Amit Singhal, Manphool Lung India Case Report Selective IgM deficiency is a rare primary immunodeficiency defined as isolated low levels of IgM. It presents with recurrent infections and has been described as first presenting in adulthood with recurrent respiratory tract infections. Unlike its better known counterpart of IgA deficiency, this particular immunodeficiency is often overlooked. We present a case of selective IgM deficiency who presented with recurrent respiratory infections. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4129610/ /pubmed/25125825 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.135787 Text en Copyright: © Lung India 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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