Gastrointestinal manifestations of common variable immunodeficiency disease

Common Variable Immunodeficiency with Several Gastrointestinal Manifestations

Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is an immunodeficiency disorder with a high incidence of gastrointestinal (GI) manifestations and an increased risk of gastric malignancy. We report a case of a CVID with mild anemia presenting with multiple GI manifestations: gastric low-grade dysplasia (LGD), enteropathy with villous atrophy, refractory Giardia infection, nodular lymphoid hyperplasia, a...

Common variable immunodeficiency misdiagnosed as Crohn Disease

Background Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is one of the most common primary immunodeficiency in adults and is characterized by defective antibody production, low levels of serum immunoglobulins and increased susceptibility to infection. About 20% of developed different gastrointestinal pathology. But also the pathology of the gastrointestinal tract in patients with CVID showed a wide s...

Hodgkin's disease and common variable immunodeficiency.

Gastrointestinal complications in two patients with common variable immunodeficiency.

Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is a primary immunodeficiency disease characterized by hypogammaglobulinemia and recurrent bacterial infections especially in respiratory and gastrointestinal systems. We present here 2 cases of CVID with gastrointestinal complications.Case 1 is a 25-year-old man with a history of chronic diarrhoea from childhood. Ultrasonography revealed ascites, with li...

Gastrointestinal manifestations of human immunodeficiency virus infection.