Immunodeficienza primaria

Quando il polmone ci suggerisce una immunodeficienza

Lo Scalzo L, Tumminello M, Corsello G

2024/3 — pag. 189-192 — DOI

A neonate affected by a severe respiratory infection was eventually diagnosed with severe combined immunodeficiency with hyper-IgE (Job syndrome)....

Buona crescita, cattiva immunità

Grasso AG

2021/8 — pag. 257-257 — DOI

The author presents a case of common variable immunodeficiency due to adenosine deaminase 1 deficiency diagnosed in a 3-year-old girl with recurrent pneumonia slowly respondent to the antibiotic therapy....

Il deficit di IgA

C. Guiducci, F. Marchetti

2020/6 — pag. 365-369

IgA deficiency (D-IgA) in the paediatric population is often an occasional finding during tests performed for other reasons in children in whom an immunodeficiency disorder is not suspected. D-IgA is the most common primary immunodeficiency with a va...

Leucociti: più alti che bassi

D.U. De Rose, R. Badolato

2018/7 — pag. 435-439

Leukocytosis is a common finding in children evaluation. In order to highlight the underlying cause, it is necessary to investigate which leukocyte subset is involved. Usually, leukocytosis is observed in children with infectious diseases. However,...

Vaccinazioni e immunodeficitBruxismo notturno

2017/9 — pag. 597

La diagnosi differenziale delle malattie che si presentano con IgE alte

G. Patelli, S. Farimbella, M. Cortesi, R. Badolato

2017/1 — pag. 39-43

Elevated IgE levels (higher than 1500 UI) can be detected in multiple conditions observed in childhood, including atopic dermatitis, infectious diseases or primary immunodeficiencies. This article describes the case of a child who in the first year...

La linfopenia nel bambino

C. Dallavilla, R. Badolato

2015/4 — pag. 239-246

Isolated lymphopoenia is a common finding in children evaluation. Usually, lymphopoenia is observed in children with infectious or autoimmune diseases, with nutritional disorders or under treatment with immunosuppressive drugs. However, persistence...

Una diagnosi… “per esclusione di colpi”

A. Pirrone

2010/10

Candidiasi resistente agli antimicotici in un lattante

R. Badolato

2009/10 — pag. 654-656

Mucocutaneous candidiasis constitutes a symptom that can be observed as presenting manifestation of many primary immunodeficiency. However, candidiasis being resistant to anti- fungal therapy can constitute the first symptom of Autoimmune PolyEndoc...

Immunodeficienza e autoimmunità

A. Taddio, E. Valencic, F. Maschio, A. Tommasini

2005/10 — pag. 653-658

The recent identification of the genes involved in many primary immunodeficiency disorders has led to a significant increase in our understanding of the pathogenesis of these defects. Many of these disorders share common features, such as recurrent...

Sette lattanti rossi: dalla dermatite atopica ai difetti congeniti dell’immunità

E. Zamuner, A. Tommasini

2003/8 — pag. 512-516

Seven infants with severe dermatitis, diarrhoea and/or infections are described. A primary immunodeficiency (PID) was considered among the diagnostic hypotheses in all cases. Thrombocytopenia, hypereosinophilia, lymphopenia and Ig deficiencies were...

Sindrome da iper IgE-infezioni ricorrenti acute (sindrome di Job)

G. Bartolozzi

1999/7

Infezioni respiratorie ricorrenti

F. Panizon

1999/5