منابع مشابه
Pneumocystis pneumonia associated with agammaglobulinaemia.
C.O., a female infant, had a birth weight of 6 lb. (2,720 g.). The parents were English and had one other normal child. She was admitted to hospital at the age of 3 days because of abdominal distension and vomiting. This settled without specific treatment. She went home but was readmitted two weeks later with similar symptoms together with loose stools. Intravenous fluids were required and E. c...
متن کاملSplenomegaly, hypersplenism, and hereditary disorders with splenomegaly
Splenomegaly, sometimes of massive extent, occurs in a large number of hereditary diseases, some relatively prevalent and others, rare to ultra-rare. Because physicians are often unfamiliar with the less common disorders, patients may suffer because of diagnostic delay or diagnostic error and may undergo invasive, non-innocuous procedures such as splenectomy that are potentially avoidable were ...
متن کاملX linked agammaglobulinaemia with a 'leaky' phenotype.
Typical X linked agammaglobulinaemia (XLA) is characterised by absence of immunoglobulin production and lack of mature B cells. The gene responsible for XLA has recently been identified, and codes for a B cell tyrosine kinase, BTK. A family affected by a B cell immunodeficiency, which is less severe than classical XLA, is described but they had a pedigree suggestive of X linked inheritance. Dem...
متن کاملVaccinia gangrenosa and agammaglobulinaemia.
Normally, primary vaccination against smallpox produces a vesicle on an inflamed base in four days, enlarging for a further five days with umbilication, and healing under a scab in about three weeks. Pyogenic infection of the primary lesion is the most common complication of vaccinia. Secondary vaccinal lesions may occur as the result of autoinoculation of adjacent or distant areas of skin. The...
متن کاملNeutropenia associated with X-linked agammaglobulinaemia.
In a series of six cases of sex-linked agammaglobulinaemia neutropenia occurred as a presenting feature in four and during the presenting illness in the other two. The six patients all had low antibody titres and absent or low immunoglobulin concentrations with normal concentrations of T cells and absent B cells. The patients were all first seen with severe, acute infection, including septic ab...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1957
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.5028.1148