What is Common Variable Immunodeficiency?
What is Common Variable Immunodeficiency?
- Common Variable Immunodeficiency: An immunodeficiency disorder involving low blood gamma globulin levels which results in an increased susceptibility to infections. The condition may be inherited or can be caused by certain drugs (levamisole, hydantoin and carbamazepine).
- Common Variable Immunodeficiency: Heterogeneous group of immunodeficiency syndromes characterized by hypogammaglobulinemia of most isotypes, variable B-cell defects, and the presence of recurrent bacterial infections.
Source - Diseases Database
Common Variable Immunodeficiency is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Common Variable Immunodeficiency, or a subtype of Common Variable Immunodeficiency,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Ophanet, a consortium of European partners,
currently defines a condition rare when it affects 1 person per 2,000.
They list Common Variable Immunodeficiency as a "rare disease".
Source - Orphanet
Common Variable Immunodeficiency: Introduction
Types of Common Variable Immunodeficiency:
Broader types of Common Variable Immunodeficiency:
Who gets Common Variable Immunodeficiency?
Patient Profile for Common Variable Immunodeficiency: Usually teens or young adults; infants or children also possible.
Profile for Common Variable Immunodeficiency: Infants sometimes have symptoms of CVI, though in
most cases symptoms do not show up until the second or third decade
of life. (Source: excerpt from Primary Immune Deficiency, NIAID Fact Sheet: NIAID)
How serious is Common Variable Immunodeficiency?
Complications of Common Variable Immunodeficiency:
see complications of Common Variable Immunodeficiency
What causes Common Variable Immunodeficiency?
Causes of Common Variable Immunodeficiency: see causes of Common Variable Immunodeficiency
Cause of Common Variable Immunodeficiency: Unknown. Probably not genetic as no clear inheritance patterns.
Causes of Common Variable Immunodeficiency: CVI has no clear pattern of inheritance.
The cause is unknown. (Source: excerpt from Primary Immune Deficiency, NIAID Fact Sheet: NIAID)
What are the symptoms of Common Variable Immunodeficiency?
Symptoms of Common Variable Immunodeficiency:
see symptoms of Common Variable Immunodeficiency
Complications of Common Variable Immunodeficiency:
see complications of Common Variable Immunodeficiency
Onset of Common Variable Immunodeficiency: highly variable, from infancy to later adulthood
Can anyone else get Common Variable Immunodeficiency?
Inheritance:
see inheritance of Common Variable Immunodeficiency
Common Variable Immunodeficiency: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Common Variable Immunodeficiency.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Common Variable Immunodeficiency.
How is it treated?
Treatments for Common Variable Immunodeficiency:
see treatments for Common Variable Immunodeficiency
Research for Common Variable Immunodeficiency:
see research for Common Variable Immunodeficiency
Organs Affected by Common Variable Immunodeficiency:
Organs and body systems related to Common Variable Immunodeficiency include:
Name and Aliases of Common Variable Immunodeficiency
Main name of condition: Common Variable Immunodeficiency
Other names or spellings for Common Variable Immunodeficiency:
CVID, hypogammaglobulinemia, adult-onset agammaglobulinemia, late-onset hypogammaglobulinemia, acquired agammaglobulinemia, Common variable hypogammaglobulinemia, Hypogammaglobulinemia, acquired, Immunoglobulin deficiency, late-onset
Non-familial hypogammaglobulinaemia, Common variable hypogammaglobulinaemia
Source - Diseases Database
CVID, Common variable hypogammaglobulinemia, Hypogammaglobulinemia, acquired, Immunoglobulin deficiency, late-onset, Common variable hypogammaglobulinemia, Hypogammaglobulinemia, acquired, Immunoglobulin deficiency, late-onset
Source - Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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