Primary immunodeficiency diseases are rare hereditary conditions that usually occur at a young age; however, secondary immunodeficiency is acquired due to disease, drug treatment and is increasing in frequency among the population. Although periodontal diseases related to these conditions are secondary to other life threatening manifestations, they are very common and easily detectable by the p...

conclusions based on existing data, hiv infection surveillance, performance of standard precaution, and post exposure prophylaxis with anti-retroviral drugs outlined in this review article represent reasonable interim approaches to this complex problem. context human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) concentrated in injecting drug users (idus) ...

Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) therapy may be considered medically necessary for the following indications.  Immunodeficiency States—patients with Primary Immunodeficiencies, including o Congenital agammaglobulinemia o Hypogammaglobulinemia o Common variable immunodeficiency o Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) o Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome o X-linked agammaglobulinemia (Bruton agammaglob...

Patients with primary immunodeficiency are prone to persistently excrete Sabin-like virus after administration of live-attenuated oral polio vaccine and have an increased risk for vaccine-derived paralytic polio. We report a case of type 3 immunodeficiency-associated vaccine-derived poliovirus in a child in South Africa who was born with X-linked immunodeficiency syndrome.

INTRODUCTION In recent years, there has been growing concern about an increasing rate of cardiovascular diseases in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients, which could be associated with side effects of highly active antiretroviral therapy. It is likely that the metabolic disorders related to anti-human immunodeficiency virus treatment will eventually translate into a increased cardiova...

Primary immunodeficiency results in recurrent infections, organ dysfunction, and autoimmunity. We studied 237 patients referred for suspicion of immunodeficiency, using a scoring system based on clinical information. The 113 patients with immunodeficiency had higher scores and more episodes of chronic illnesses and were more likely to have neutropenia, lymphopenia, or splenomegaly.

Background: Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) is an X-linked recessive disorder associated with combined immunodeficiency, microthrombocytopenia, eczema, and increased risk of autoimmunity cancer. Aim: To report the clinical presentation, immune features, genetic mutation in a patient novel gene, causing mild phenotype WAS. Methods: The patient’s chart was reviewed. We phenotypical laboratory char...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a member of the Retroviridae (retrovirus) family. It associated with immunodeficiency, neurological diseases and neoplasms. With use antiretroviral therapy (ART), prognosis people who are infected HIV has improved, incidence HIV-related central nervous system (CNS) markedly decreased. In spite that mortality from CNS remains significant. Magnetic resonance ...

A three year old boy with delayed separation of the umbilical cord, recurrent pyogenic infections and common variable immundeficiency is presented. The immunoglobulin measurement was severely abnormal. To the best of our knowledge, the existance of leukocyte adhesion disorder together with common variable immunodeficiency (CYID) in a patient has not been reported prior to this study.