Symptoms of Immune deficiency conditions
Symptoms of Immune deficiency conditions
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Severe combined immunodeficiency disease:
Signs and symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
An extreme susceptibility to infection becomes obvious in the infant with SCID in the first months of life. The infant fails to thrive and develops chronic otitis; sepsis; watery diarrhea (associated with Salmonella or Escherichia coli); recurrent pulmonary infections (usually caused by Pseudomonas, cytomegalovirus, or Pneumocystis carinii); persistent oral candidiasis, sometimes with esophageal erosions; and possibly fatal viral infections such as chickenpox.
P. carinii pneumonia usually strikes a severely immunodeficient infant in the first 3 to 5 weeks of life. Onset is typically insidious, with gradually worsening cough, low-grade fever, tachypnea, and respiratory distress. Chest X-ray characteristically shows bilateral pulmonary infiltrates.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Common variable immunodeficiency:
Signs and symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
In common variable immunodeficiency, pyogenic bacterial infections are characteristic but tend to be chronic rather than acute (as in X-linked hypogammaglobulinemia). Recurrent sinopulmonary infections, chronic bacterial conjunctivitis, and malabsorption (commonly associated with infestation by Giardia lamblia) are usually the first clues to immunodeficiency.
Common variable immunodeficiency may be associated with autoimmune diseases, such as systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, hemolytic anemia, and pernicious anemia, and with cancers, such as leukemia and lymphoma.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome:
Signs and symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
A person with HIV may remain asymptomatic for months or years. Initially, laboratory evidence or seroconversion to HIV antibodies may be the only clinical evidence of infection. However, as the disease progresses, the patient may develop generalized adenopathy and nonspecific signs and symptoms, such as weight loss, fatigue, night sweats, and fevers. As the patient’s T-cell count lowers further, neurologic symptoms, opportunistic infections, and certain normally rare cancers may develop. HIV also destroys lymph nodes and immunologic organs, leading to major dysfunctions of the immunological system. Eventually, HIV advances to AIDS. (Some individuals, termed nonprogressors, develop AIDS very slowly or not at all. They seem to have genetic differences that prevent the virus from attaching to certain immune receptors.)
PEDIATRIC TIP The clinical course varies slightly in children, who have a shorter incubation time (mean, 17 months.) Signs and symptoms resemble those in adults, except for findings related to sexually transmitted disease (STD). Children show virtually all of the opportunistic infections observed in adults, with a higher incidence of bacterial infections: otitis media, pneumonias other than that caused by Pneumocystis carinii, sepsis, chronic salivary gland enlargement, and lymphoid interstitial pneumonia.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Severe combined immunodeficiency disease:
Signs and symptoms
(Handbook of Diseases)
An extreme susceptibility to infection becomes obvious in the infant with SCID in the first months of life. The infant fails to thrive and develops chronic otitis, sepsis, watery diarrhea (associated with Salmonella or Escherichia coli), recurrent pulmonary infections (usually caused by Pseudomonas, cytomegalo-virus, or Pneumocystis carinii), persistent oral candidiasis (sometimes with esophageal erosions), and possibly fatal viral infections (such as chickenpox).
P. carinii pneumonia usually strikes a severely immunodeficient infant in the first 3 to 5 weeks of life. Onset is typically insidious, with gradually worsening cough, low-grade fever, tachypnea, and respiratory distress. A chest X-ray characteristically shows bilateral pulmonary infiltrates.
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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
Common variable immunodeficiency:
Signs and symptoms
(Handbook of Diseases)
With common variable immunodeficiency, pyogenic bacterial infections are characteristic but tend to be chronic rather than acute (as in X-linked hypogammaglobulinemia). Recurrent sinopulmonary infections, chronic bacterial conjunctivitis, and malabsorption (commonly associated with infestation by Giardia lamblia) are usually the first clues to immunodeficiency.
Common variable immunodeficiency may be associated with autoimmune diseases (such as systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, hemolytic anemia, and pernicious anemia) as well as with cancers (such as leukemia and lymphoma).
Clinical tip Patients with common variable immunodeficiency can develop a nonseptic inflammatory arthritis similar to rheumatoid arthritis. However, because septic arthritis has also been reported, a search for an infecting organism should be undertaken in patients with new joint pain and inflammation, particularly if only one or two joints are affected.
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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
Human immunodeficiency virus infection:
Signs and symptoms
(Handbook of Diseases)
HIV infection manifests itself in many ways.
Clinical tip After a high-risk exposure and inoculation, the infected person usually experiences a mononucleosis-like syndrome, which may be attributed to the flu or another virus, and then may remain asymptomatic for years. In this latent stage, the only sign of HIV infection is laboratory evidence of seroconversion.
When symptoms appear, they may take many forms:
❑ persistent generalized adenopathy
❑ nonspecific symptoms (weight loss, fatigue, night sweats, fevers)
❑ neurologic symptoms resulting from HIV encephalopathy
❑ opportunistic infection or cancer.
The clinical course varies slightly in children with AIDS. Apparently, their incubation time is shorter, with a mean of 17 months. Signs and symptoms resemble those in adults, except for findings related to STDs. Children show virtually all of the opportunistic infections observed in adults, with a higher incidence of bacterial infections, such as otitis media, sepsis, chronic salivary gland enlargement, Mycobacterium avium complex function, and pneumonias, including Pneumocystis carinii and lymphoid interstitial pneumonias.
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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
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