What is Immune deficiency conditions?
What is Immune deficiency conditions?
- Immune deficiency conditions: Any of various diseases that suppress the immune system.
- Immune deficiency conditions: Syndromes in which there is a deficiency or defect in the mechanisms of immunity, either cellular or humoral.
Source - Diseases Database
Immune deficiency conditions: Introduction
Types of Immune deficiency conditions:
Types of Immune deficiency conditions:
- Primary Immune Deficiency - congenital defects of the immune system
- Acquired immunodeficiency - Patients with certain diseases "acquire" an immune deficiency (rather than being born with it):
- AIDS
- Cancer patients - those on chemotherapy
- Transplant patients - on immunosuppression medications.
- Immunosuppressant patients - those on immunosuppression medications for various conditions.
- Diabetes - causes mild immune suppression rather than full immunodeficiency.
- Elderly - the immune system of the elderly is often weak.
- Newborns - newborn babies have relatively weak immune systems.
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Broader types of Immune deficiency conditions:
How serious is Immune deficiency conditions?
Complications of Immune deficiency conditions:
see complications of Immune deficiency conditions
What causes Immune deficiency conditions?
Causes of Immune deficiency conditions: see causes of Immune deficiency conditions
Risk factors for Immune deficiency conditions:
see
risk factors for Immune deficiency conditions
What are the symptoms of Immune deficiency conditions?
Symptoms of Immune deficiency conditions:
see symptoms of Immune deficiency conditions
Complications of Immune deficiency conditions:
see complications of Immune deficiency conditions
Can anyone else get Immune deficiency conditions?
Inheritance:
see inheritance of Immune deficiency conditions
Immune deficiency conditions: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Immune deficiency conditions.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Immune deficiency conditions.
How is it treated?
Treatments for Immune deficiency conditions:
see treatments for Immune deficiency conditions
Research for Immune deficiency conditions:
see research for Immune deficiency conditions
Society issues for Immune deficiency conditions
Hospitalization statistics for Immune deficiency conditions:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Immune deficiency conditions:
- 0.062% (7,916) of hospital consultant episodes were for immunodeficiency with predominantly antibody defects in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 100% of hospital consultant episodes for immunodeficiency with predominantly antibody defects required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 52% of hospital consultant episodes for immunodeficiency with predominantly antibody defects were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 48% of hospital consultant episodes for immunodeficiency with predominantly antibody defects were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 3% of hospital consultant episodes for immunodeficiency with predominantly antibody defects required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 2 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for immunodeficiency with predominantly antibody defects in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 0 days was the median length of stay in hospitals for immunodeficiency with predominantly antibody defects in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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Organs Affected by Immune deficiency conditions:
Organs and body systems related to Immune deficiency conditions include:
Name and Aliases of Immune deficiency conditions
Main name of condition: Immune deficiency conditions
Other names or spellings for Immune deficiency conditions:
Immune deficiency diseases, immune suppression, immunosuppression, immunocompromise, immunodeficiency diseases
Immunity suppression, Immunodeficiency, Immunological deficiency, Immunosuppression, Immune deficiency
Source - Diseases Database
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