Two siblings with congenital lymphedema had recurrent pleural effusions in adult life. The brother also had yellow toenails and thus represents an example of the syndrome of lymphedema, pleural effusions, and yellow nails. An immunologic deficiency state in these patients was suggested by recurrent bronchopthonary and skin infections, hypogammaglobulinemia, and episodes of lymphopenia. The sist...

Pure red cell aplasia (PRCA) and hypogammaglobulinemia are paraneoplastic syndromes that are rarer than myasthenia gravis in patients with thymoma. Good syndrome coexisting with PRCA is an extremely rare pathology. We report the case of a 50-year-old man with thymoma and PRCA associated with Good syndrome who achieved complete PRCA remission after thymectomy and postoperative immunosuppressive ...

We report the case of a 63-year-old woman who suffered from mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) complicated with thymic carcinoma and Hashimoto's thyroiditis. Although many systemic syndromes associated with thymoma and thymic carcinoma, i.e., myasthenia gravis, pure red cell aplasia, hypogammaglobulinemia, and Hashimoto's thyroiditis, are known, this is the first report of MCTD complicated ...

1982;81;112-115 Chest N D Phung, R T Kubo and S L Spector asthma. with variable hypogammaglobulinemia in a patient Alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency and common http://www.chestjournal.org/content/81/1/112.citation services can be found online on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information and ) ISSN:0012-3692 http://www.chestjournal.org/site/misc/repri...

The clinical, hematologic, and immunologic findings of a syndrome of agranulocytosis, hypogammaglobulinemia, and thymoma are described. Neutrophil agranulocytosis predisposing to severe infectious disease resulted from a deficiency of mature cells in bone marrow. Autologous and heterologous stem cell growth in vitro was inhibited by the patient's serum. Immunoglobulin deficiency was secondary t...

We study a simple ow control method for ATM networks cal l ed peri odi c averaging of rate (PARing). Thi s method attempts to reduce the burstiness of tra c by bu ering. We present asymptoti c resul ts, obtained via the theory of l arge deviati ons, on the memory requi rements, the multiplexing gainof PARed sources, and the tradeo s between bu ering inside and outside of the network. We di scus...