A Case of Severe COVID-19 in a Patient with Good's Syndrome
Good’s syndrome is a rare adult-onset combined immunodeficiency. The association of hypogammaglobulinaemia with a history of recurrent infectious or autoimmune manifestations in a middle-aged patient with evidence of a mediastinal mass should lead to the
Maria Duarte +4 more
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Susceptibility to infections and adaptive immunity in adults with heart failure
Aims Heart failure (HF) is a systemic inflammatory disorder with infections being an important cause of morbidity and mortality. We asked if HF patients have a higher susceptibility to infections compared with the general population and if a subtle ...
Ulrich Salzer +5 more
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Seasonal relapsing minimal change disease: a novel strategy for avoiding long-term immunosuppression. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: We describe the case of a young woman with seasonal allergic rhinitis who presented with signs of a lower respiratory tract infection, acute renal impairment and the nephrotic syndrome, demonstrated on biopsy to be due to minimal change ...
Cook, HT, Lawrence, C, Lightstone, L
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B Cell Therapies, Approved and Emerging: a Review of Infectious Risk and Prevention During Use [PDF]
The development of B cell-targeted biologics represents a major advance in the treatment of autoimmune rheumatic diseases. As with other immunosuppressive agents, risk of infection is a key clinical concern.
Buch, MH, Md Yusof, MY, Vital, EM
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Humoral and functional SARS-CoV-2-specific T-cell responses elicited in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia patients with GEO-CM04S1 a synthetic MVA-vectored COVID-19 vaccine. [PDF]
British Journal of Haematology, Volume 208, Issue 2, Page 711-715, February 2026.
Ortega-Francisco S +24 more
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Secondary antibody deficiency: a complication of anti-CD20 therapy for neuroinflammation [PDF]
B-cell depleting anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody therapies are being increasingly used as long-term maintenance therapy for neuroinflammatory disease compared to many non-neurological diseases where they are used as remission-inducing agents.
Constantinescu, C. +6 more
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Rituximab Unveils Hypogammaglobulinemia and Immunodeficiency in Children with Autoimmune Cytopenia [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Rituximab (RTX; anti-CD20 mAb) is a treatment option in children with refractory immune thrombocytopenia, autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AHA), and Evans syndrome (ES). Prevalence and clinical course of RTX-induced hypogammaglobulinemia in these
Angarano, R. +26 more
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Colorectal cancer in patients with X-linked agammaglobulinaemia [PDF]
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Meer, J.W.M. van der +4 more
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Anti-CD20 therapy is effective in idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (INS). However, transient or sustained hypogammaglobulinemia predisposing to an increased risk of infectious diseases can follow treatment in some patients. We analyzed the long-term effects
Manuela Colucci +15 more
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Background In Switzerland, rituximab (RTX) is licenced for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) but is frequently used off-label to treat other auto-immune diseases (AID), especially connective tissue diseases ...
Alexandre Dumusc +5 more
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