Good's syndrome presenting with CMV pneumonitis and oesophageal candidiasis: A case report

Good's syndrome is an acquired combined T‐ and B‐cell immunodeficiencies and patients are prone to opportunistic infections. The diagnosis is based on a characteristic immunoglobulin and lymphocyte subset profile, with clinical features of thymoma. Despite thymectomy, the immunodeficiencies per...

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Autores principales: Kwok, Chin Tong, Yeung, Yiu Cheong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2021
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8636207/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34888060
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.888
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description Good's syndrome is an acquired combined T‐ and B‐cell immunodeficiencies and patients are prone to opportunistic infections. The diagnosis is based on a characteristic immunoglobulin and lymphocyte subset profile, with clinical features of thymoma. Despite thymectomy, the immunodeficiencies persist and lifelong immunoglobulin replacement is necessary to prevent infections.
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spelling pubmed-86362072021-12-08 Good's syndrome presenting with CMV pneumonitis and oesophageal candidiasis: A case report Kwok, Chin Tong Yeung, Yiu Cheong Respirol Case Rep Case Reports Good's syndrome is an acquired combined T‐ and B‐cell immunodeficiencies and patients are prone to opportunistic infections. The diagnosis is based on a characteristic immunoglobulin and lymphocyte subset profile, with clinical features of thymoma. Despite thymectomy, the immunodeficiencies persist and lifelong immunoglobulin replacement is necessary to prevent infections. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2021-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8636207/ /pubmed/34888060 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.888 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Respirology Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of The Asian Pacific Society of Respirology. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Good's syndrome presenting with CMV pneumonitis and oesophageal candidiasis: A case report
title Good's syndrome presenting with CMV pneumonitis and oesophageal candidiasis: A case report
title_full Good's syndrome presenting with CMV pneumonitis and oesophageal candidiasis: A case report
title_fullStr Good's syndrome presenting with CMV pneumonitis and oesophageal candidiasis: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Good's syndrome presenting with CMV pneumonitis and oesophageal candidiasis: A case report
title_short Good's syndrome presenting with CMV pneumonitis and oesophageal candidiasis: A case report
title_sort good's syndrome presenting with cmv pneumonitis and oesophageal candidiasis: a case report
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8636207/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34888060
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.888
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