Antibody deficiency diseases are common collectively. The clinical presentation of these disorders is extremely variable and they affect many different organ systems; hence these patients present to a variety of medical and surgical specialists. Patients suffering from antibody deficiency are susceptible to significant, recurrent infections and if diagnosis and implementation of therapy is dela...

bronchiectasis is a chronic debilitating condition characterized by abnormal dilated thick-walled bronchi. to investigate humoral immune function in bronchiectatic patients, this study was performed . forty patients with established diagnosis of bronchiectasis, who were referred from two tertiary care pulmonology centers in tehran, were investigated in this study. immunoglobulin isotypes concen...

OBJECTIVES Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is typically associated with hypergammaglobulinaemia but has been described in the setting of hypogammaglobulinaemia as well. The purpose of this article is to describe various cases of SLE and hypogammaglobulinaemia, review the literature and present management strategies for hypogammaglobulinaemia in SLE. METHODS We describe five patients with S...