Antibodies aggravate the development of ischemic heart failure [PDF]
, 2018 Heart-specific antibodies have been widely associated with myocardial infarction (MI). However, it remains unclear whether autoantibodies mediate disease progression or are a byproduct of cardiac injury. To disambiguate the role of immunoglobulins in MI,
Frantz, Stefan +6 more
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Disseminated Metacestode Versteria Species Infection in Woman, Pennsylvania, USA
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2019 A patient in Pennsylvania, USA, with common variable immunodeficiency sought care for fever, cough, and abdominal pain. Imaging revealed lesions involving multiple organs.
Bethany Lehman +12 more
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Casereport - Agalactia of mare, agammaglobulinemia and arthritis in foal [PDF]
Veterinarski Glasnik, 2014 Lactation is physiological state of the organism and the final process of the female reproductive cycle. Milk in the first days after birth (colostrum), in addition to the necessary nutrients contains antibodies, with whose ingesting only a ...
Spasojević Jovan +6 more
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IgM Augments Complement Bactericidal Activity with Serum from a Patient with a Novel CD79a Mutation [PDF]
, 2018 Antibody replacement therapy for patients with antibody deficiencies contains only IgG. As a result, concurrent IgM and IgA deficiency present in a large proportion of antibody deficient patients persists.
Burg, M. (Mirjam) van der +6 more
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Tubulointerstitial nephritis complicating IVIG therapy for X-linked agammaglobulinemia [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: Patients with X-linked agammaglobulinemia (XLA) develop immune-complex induced diseases such as nephropathy only rarely, presumably because their immunoglobulin (Ig) G concentration is low.
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Case Reports in Medicine, 2017 Agammaglobulinemia is a rare form of B-cell primary immunodeficiency disease characterized by reduced levels of IgG, IgA, or IgM and recurrent bacterial infections. Agammaglobulinemia is most commonly associated with diffuse nodular lymphoid hyperplasia.
Irfan Ali Shera +2 more
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Genetic stability of Campylobacter coli in patients with primary antibody deficiencies [PDF]
, 2019 In the Clinical Communication, Dion et al 1 reported that in patients with severe primary antibody deficiency (PAD), Campylobacter infection is a major cause (6.5%) of chronic or recurrent diarrhea. Moreover, by a molecular study performed in a subset of
Milito, Cinzia, Quinti, Isabella
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Absent B Cells, agammaglobulinemia, and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in Folliculin-interacting Protein 1 Deficiency [PDF]
, 2020 Agammaglobulinemia is the most profound primary antibody deficiency that can occur due to an early termination of B-cell development. We here investigated 3 novel patients, including the first known adult, from unrelated families with agammaglobulinemia,
Baas, Frank +33 more
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Disseminated Spiroplasma apis Infection in Patient with Agammaglobulinemia, France
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018 We report a disseminated infection caused by Spiroplasma apis, a honeybee pathogen, in a patient in France who had X-linked agammaglobulinemia. Identification was challenging because initial bacterial cultures and direct examination by Gram staining were
Nicolas Etienne +11 more
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Clinic of humoral primary immunodeficiencies in adults. Experience in a tertiary hospital
Revista Alergia México, 2016 Background: Primary immunodeficiencies (PID) are characterized by alteration of the components of the immune system. Humoral deficiencies represent 50%.
Julio César Cambray-Gutiérrez +3 more
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