Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases

Prevalence of Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases in Kerman, Southeast of Iran

Objective: Primary immunodeficiency diseases (PID) are rare and heterogeneous congenital diseases leading to increased unusual susceptibility to developing infections and causingsome malignancies and autoimmune diseases. This study was conducted to evaluate the epidemiological characteristics of primary these diseases in patients attending the clinic of immunodeficiency diseases in Kerman.Subje...

A Review of Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases with Skin Manifestations

Introduction: Primary immunodeficiencies (PID) are rare heterogeneous disorders with defects in which one or more components of the immune system are malfunctioning. Clinical presentations of the patients according to type of immunodeficiency are variable. The majority of these patients are susceptible to infections depending on the type of disorder. In these patients, one of the most important...

Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases

The abstracts that are presented following these individual papers are difficult to evaluate because they do not contain detailed data. However, some interesting results are presented which can be better evaluated when published in full. Examples include a categorization of congenital malformations among births in Puerto Rico, a piece of epidemiologic data not previously available, a presentati...

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Primary immunodeficiency diseases and malignancy.

The incidence of malignant tumors in the primary immunodeficiency diseases is dramatically increased. Four patients with primary immunodeficiencies who developed fatal malignancies are reported. Lymphoreticular tumors and leukemia predominate in most conditions, but epithelial neoplasms are the most common tumors in selective Iga deficiency, and they comprise over one-fourth of malignancies in ...