What is Primary Immune Deficiency?

What is Primary Immune Deficiency?

• Primary Immune Deficiency: Various types of immune deficiencies; usually genetic.

Primary Immune Deficiency: Introduction

Types of Primary Immune Deficiency:

Types of Primary Immune Deficiency:

• Selective IgA Deficiency
• Common Variable Immunodeficiency
• Chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis (type of Candidiasis)
• X-Linked Agammaglobulinemia
• Chronic Granulomatous Disease
• Hyper-IgM Syndrome
• X-linked Hyper-IgM Syndrome
• SCID
• SCID-ADA deficiency
• DiGeorge Anomaly
• Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome
• Ataxia Telangiectasia
• IgG Subclass Deficiency
• Partial Combined Immunodeficiencies
• Cartilage Hair Hypoplasia
• Leukocyte Adhesion Defect
• Chediak-Higashi Syndrome
• Complement deficiencies
• Hyper-IgE Syndrome
• Purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) deficiency
• more types...»

Broader types of Primary Immune Deficiency:

• Immune disorders
• Immune deficiency conditions
• Bizarre medical conditions
• more types...»

Who gets Primary Immune Deficiency?

Patient Profile for Primary Immune Deficiency: Usually symptoms in infancy or early childhood

Profile for Primary Immune Deficiency: More boys than girls have PI, and patients’ first symptoms often begin in infancy or later in childhood. (Source: excerpt from Primary Immune Deficiency, NIAID Fact Sheet: NIAID)

Gender Profile for Primary Immune Deficiency: More boys than girls.

How serious is Primary Immune Deficiency?

Complications of Primary Immune Deficiency: see complications of Primary Immune Deficiency

What causes Primary Immune Deficiency?

Causes of Primary Immune Deficiency: see causes of Primary Immune Deficiency

What are the symptoms of Primary Immune Deficiency?

Symptoms of Primary Immune Deficiency: see symptoms of Primary Immune Deficiency

Complications of Primary Immune Deficiency: see complications of Primary Immune Deficiency

Primary Immune Deficiency: Testing

Diagnostic testing: see tests for Primary Immune Deficiency.

Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Primary Immune Deficiency.

How is it treated?

Doctors and Medical Specialists for Primary Immune Deficiency: Immunologist, Pulmonologists, Rheumatologists, Gastroenterologists, Hematologists ; see also doctors and medical specialists for Primary Immune Deficiency.
Treatments for Primary Immune Deficiency: see treatments for Primary Immune Deficiency
Research for Primary Immune Deficiency: see research for Primary Immune Deficiency

Organs Affected by Primary Immune Deficiency:

Organs and body systems related to Primary Immune Deficiency include:

• Immune system

Name and Aliases of Primary Immune Deficiency

Main name of condition: Primary Immune Deficiency

Class of Condition for Primary Immune Deficiency: congenital.defect

primary immunodeficiency, PI, congenital immunodeficiency