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Immune deficiency diseases.
Paediatricians have long been deeply concerned with problems of infection. The sharp decrease in childhood mortality in recent decades in highly developed countries is mainly due to progress in preventing and treating infection: for example, in Switzerland in 1973 there were about 88 000 births and only 16 deaths due to infection in children aged between 2 and 4 years in contrast to 76 killed b...
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Individuals with genetically determined complement deficiencies have a variety of clinical presentations. Most patients present with an increased susceptibility to infection, otherswith a variety of rheumatic diseases, still others with angio-oedema, and in rare instances, patients may even be asymptomatic. The elucidation of the pathophysiological basis for the different clinical presentations...
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Evidence is reviewed that indicates that an immune deficiency state may underlie patients with immune complex nephritis. Studies in several laboratories provide data that show defective immune function in patients with nephritis at the following loci: defective immunoglobulin production, impaired monocyte Fc and C3b receptor function, diminished complement biosynthesis, and decreased mesangial ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 1975
ISSN: 0021-9746
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.s1-6.1.83