Hypogammaglobulinemia with facial edema

PLoS Med. 2006 Dec;3(12):e475. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030475.

Abstract

Knight and colleagues discuss the diagnosis and management of a 35-year-old man with a past history of recurrent cellulitis and otitis media and a two-year history of facial swelling.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Agammaglobulinemia / blood
  • Agammaglobulinemia / etiology*
  • Cellulitis / blood
  • Cellulitis / etiology*
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Edema / etiology*
  • Face / pathology
  • Feces / chemistry
  • Humans
  • Lymphangiectasis, Intestinal / diagnosis
  • Male
  • Protein-Losing Enteropathies / blood
  • Protein-Losing Enteropathies / complications*
  • Protein-Losing Enteropathies / diagnosis*
  • Recurrence
  • Severe Combined Immunodeficiency / diagnosis
  • T-Lymphocytes / immunology
  • alpha 1-Antitrypsin / analysis

Substances

  • alpha 1-Antitrypsin