BACKGROUND Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is an immunodeficiency affecting phagocytic leukocytes. Defective respiratory burst mechanism renders the affected patients to be susceptible to catalase positive microorganisms. With the great successes in antibacterial prophylaxis and therapy, fungal infections are a persistent problem. Invasive aspergillosis is the most important cause of mortal...

Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is a primary immunodeficiency disorder caused by inherited defects in the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidase complex. The neutrophils of patient with CGD can ingest bacteria normally, but the oxidative processes that lead to superoxide anion formation, hydrogen peroxide production, nonoxidative pathway activation, and bacterial killing are im...

Chronic Granulomatous Disease (CGD) is an inherited primary immunodeficiency disease which increases the body's susceptibility to infections caused by certain bacteria and fungi. CGD is a rare disease, caused by four genes, one type is 1X linked and the other three are "autosomal recessive". Although clinical presentation is variable, but characteristic features are recurrent pneumonia, lymphad...

Aspergillus nidulans is one of the several species of Aspergillus with low pathogenicity. The significant infections of A. nidulans in human have rarely been reported, almost exclusively in patients with chronic granulomatous disease (CGD). CGD is a primary immunodeficiency disease which results from the absence of the NADPH oxidase in the phagocytic cells, leading to recurrent pyogenic infecti...

BACKGROUND Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is caused by mutations in genes encoding nicotinamide dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) oxidase subunits. CASE REPORT A boy was diagnosed as having juvenile sarcoidosis because he presented with cervical and pulmonary lymphadenopathy with epitheloid cells and granuloma formation and high angiotensin converting enzyme. Later, a liver abscess was diag...

The purpose of this pictorial essay is to present and summarize findings of various images of chronic granulomatous disease (CGD). CGD represents a heterogeneous group of disorders caused by defective generation of respiratory bursts in human phagocytes. This defect results in abnormal phagocytic functions and defective killing of bacteria by phagocytes. CGD may involve many organs and present ...

Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is an autosomal recessive or X-linked disorder caused by NADPH oxidase deficiency leading to an impaired ability of reactive superoxide anion and metabolite formation and recurring severe bacterial and fungal infections, with a high mortality rate. Diarrhea, colitis, ileus, perirectal abscess formation and anal fissures are reported gastrointestinal findings ...