Summary
Definition
History and exam
Key diagnostic factors
- presença de fatores de risco
- infecções recorrentes e incomumente graves
- diarreia crônica
- retardo do crescimento pôndero-estatural
- ausência do tecido linfoide
Other diagnostic factors
- erupção cutânea
- úlceras orais ou genitais
- microcefalia
- anormalidades esqueléticas
- cegueira
- distonia
- sensibilidade à radiação
Risk factors
- História familiar de IDCG
- História familiar de morte infantil
- Índios norte-americanos falantes de atabascano
- Consanguinidade
Diagnostic tests
1st tests to order
- Hemograma completo
- citometria de fluxo
- radiografia torácica
- teste quantitativo de imunoglobulinas (IgG, IgM e IgA)
Tests to consider
- ultrassonografia do tórax
- TC do tórax
- ressonância nuclear magnética (RNM) do tórax
- fundoscopia
- testes enzimáticos
- ácido úrico sérico
- estudos de proliferação de células T
- testagem da viremia baseada em reação em cadeia da polimerase
- sensibilidade à radiação das culturas de fibroblastos
- teste genético
Treatment algorithm
imunodeficiência combinada grave (IDCG) confirmada
Contributors
Authors
Javier Chinen, MD, PhD
Professor
Pediatrics, Allergy, and Immunology
Baylor College of Medicine
Texas Children’s Hospital
Houston
TX
Disclosures
JC declares that he has no competing interests.
Acknowledgements
Dr Chinen would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr John M. Cunningham, Dr James L. LaBelle, Dr John Routes, Dr James Verbsky, Dr Nicole Chase, and Dr Ebrahim Shakir, the previous contributors to this topic.
Disclosures
JLL, JR, JV, and NC are authors of references cited in this topic. JMC and ES declare that they have no competing interests.
Peer reviewers
Elizabeth Secord, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Immunology
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Detroit
MI
Disclosures
ES declares that she has no competing interests.
Waseem Qasim, BMedSci (Hons), MBBS, MRCP (UK), MRCPCH, PhD
Senior Lecturer
Institute of Child Health
Consultant in Paediatric Immunology & Bone Marrow Transplantation
Great Ormond Street Hospital
London
UK
Disclosures
WQ declares that he has no competing interests.
Peer reviewer acknowledgements
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References
Key articles
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Tangye SG, Al-Herz W, Bousfiha A, et al. Human inborn errors of immunity: 2022 update on the classification from the International Union of Immunological Societies Expert Committee. J Clin Immunol. 2022 Jun 24;1-35 [Epub ahead of print].Full text Abstract
Bonilla FA, Khan DA, Ballas ZK, et al. Practice parameter for the diagnosis and management of primary immunodeficiency. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2015 Nov;136(5):1186-205.e1-78.Full text Abstract
Buckley RH. Molecular defects in human severe combined immunodeficiency and approaches to immune reconstitution. Ann Rev Immunol. 2004:22:625-55. Abstract
Heimall J, Buckley RH, Puck J, et al. Recommendations for screening and management of late effects in patients with severe combined immunodeficiency after allogenic hematopoietic cell transplantation: a consensus statement from the second pediatric blood and marrow transplant consortium international conference on late effects after pediatric HCT. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2017 Aug;23(8):1229-40.Full text Abstract
Candotti F, de Villartay JP, Moshous D, et al. Severe combined immune deficiency. In: Sullivan KE, Stiehm ER, eds. Stiehm’s immune deficiencies: inborn errors in immunity. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Academic Press, 2020:153-205.
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