Recognition, Clinical Diagnosis and Management of Patients With Primary Antibody Deficiencies: A Systematic Review
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METHODS. Computer literature searches were conducted for randomized clinical trials in medical literature databases including the US National Library of Medicine (Medline), the Excerpta Medica database (EMBASE), the Cochrane Library, the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE) of the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (University of York), and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) up to June 2006. Reports were rated on the basis of relevance and quality or type of evidence. Disease entities included were X-linked agammaglobulinemia, common variable immunodeficiency, hyper–immunoglobulin M (IgM) syndromes, IgG subclass deficiency with and without IgA deficiency, and specific antibody deficiency. Reports that involved only a limited number of patients were not included.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008