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Bruton's Agammaglobulinemia and COVID-19
During the SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic, many patients who have co-morbid conditions are considered high risk for morbidity and mortality; however, those who are immunodeficient are at higher risk of becoming seriously ill. In this article, we present a 26-year old male with a history of X-linked agam...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7769814/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33391934 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11701 |
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author | Hovey, Justin G Tolbert, Denise Howell, Druhan |
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description | During the SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic, many patients who have co-morbid conditions are considered high risk for morbidity and mortality; however, those who are immunodeficient are at higher risk of becoming seriously ill. In this article, we present a 26-year old male with a history of X-linked agammaglobulinemia who presented to the hospital with fever and chills after exposure to a SARS-CoV-2 positive individual. The patient had a prolonged course in the hospital, but his symptoms improved quickly after receiving convalescent plasma. This case highlights the clinical course of a patient with severe immunoglobulin deficiency and a possible treatment approach for patients with concomitant agammaglobulinemia and COVID-19. |
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spelling | pubmed-77698142020-12-31 Bruton's Agammaglobulinemia and COVID-19 Hovey, Justin G Tolbert, Denise Howell, Druhan Cureus Internal Medicine During the SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic, many patients who have co-morbid conditions are considered high risk for morbidity and mortality; however, those who are immunodeficient are at higher risk of becoming seriously ill. In this article, we present a 26-year old male with a history of X-linked agammaglobulinemia who presented to the hospital with fever and chills after exposure to a SARS-CoV-2 positive individual. The patient had a prolonged course in the hospital, but his symptoms improved quickly after receiving convalescent plasma. This case highlights the clinical course of a patient with severe immunoglobulin deficiency and a possible treatment approach for patients with concomitant agammaglobulinemia and COVID-19. Cureus 2020-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7769814/ /pubmed/33391934 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11701 Text en Copyright © 2020, Hovey et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Internal Medicine Hovey, Justin G Tolbert, Denise Howell, Druhan Bruton's Agammaglobulinemia and COVID-19 |
title | Bruton's Agammaglobulinemia and COVID-19 |
title_full | Bruton's Agammaglobulinemia and COVID-19 |
title_fullStr | Bruton's Agammaglobulinemia and COVID-19 |
title_full_unstemmed | Bruton's Agammaglobulinemia and COVID-19 |
title_short | Bruton's Agammaglobulinemia and COVID-19 |
title_sort | bruton's agammaglobulinemia and covid-19 |
topic | Internal Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7769814/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33391934 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11701 |
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