Seyed Alireza Mahdaviani, Sepideh Darougar, Davood Mansouri, Sabereh Tashayoie-Nejad, Mahshid Movahedi, Karim Rahimi Aghdam, Hosseinali Ghaffaripour, Nooshin Baghaie, Maryam Hassanzad, Alireza Eslaminejad, Atefeh Fakharian, Guitti Pourdowlat, Jalal Heshmatnia, Mehrdad Bakhshayeshkaram, Mohammadreza Boloursaz, Payam Tabarsi, Seyed Karen Hashemitari, Ali Akbar Velayati
Background and aims: Respiratory infections are expressed very soon in the life in humoral immunodeficiencies and often lead to chronic irreversible complications such as bronchiectasis and chronic airflow limitation. This study was conducted to evaluate the pulmonary complications of predominantly antibody immunodeficiencies to show the benefits of timely diagnosis and appropriate therapy. Patients and methods: The information of 48 patients involved with a type of predominantly antibody immunodeficiencies, including sex, type of primary immunodeficiency, age at the onset of symptoms, age at diagnosis, recurrent infections, respiratory symptoms, and pulmonary radiological and functional abnormalities were recorded and analyzed...
March 2019: Interventional Medicine & Applied Science