Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is an immunodeficiency disorder with a high incidence of gastrointestinal manifestations and an increased risk of gastric carcinoma and lymphoma. This review discusses the latest advancements into the immunolog...
Common variable immunodeficiency is a primary immunodeficiency disease, characterized by hypogammaglobulinemia, low serum immunoglobulin concentrations, and recurrent bacterial infections of the respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts. We report on a...
Actinotignum schaalii is an anaerobic, gram-positive commensal organism of the urogenital tract. A. schaalii typically causes urinary tract infections, predominantly in the elderly. Here, we describe the first case of A. schaalii infection presenting...
Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is the most common symptomatic antibody deficiency, characterized by heterogeneous genetic, immunological, and clinical phenotypes. It is no longer conceived as a sole disease but as an umbrella diagnosis compr...
Inborn errors of immunity (IEI) are multifaced diseases which can present with a variety of phenotypes, ranging from infections to autoimmunity, lymphoproliferation, and neoplasms. In recent decades, research has investigated the relationship between...
Background: Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is the most frequent symptomatic primary antibody deficiency, associated with recurrent infections, immune dysregulation, and non-infectious complications. Amyloidosis is a rare but severe complicat...
Background: Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is the most frequent symptomatic inborn error of immunity (IEI) in adulthood. Other than recurrent infections, CVID may present with non-infectious complications such as enteropathy, lymphoprolifera...
Puumala hantavirus (PUUV) infections usually show a mild or moderate clinical course, but may sometimes also lead to life-threatening disease. Here, we report on a 60-year-old female patient with common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) who developed...
Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is the most prevalent symptomatic primary immunodeficiency or inborn error of immunity (IEI) encountered in clinical practice. Characterized by a remarkably broad clinical spectrum, CVID presents with phenotype...
Background: Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is a complex, predominantly antibody deficiency usually diagnosed between 20–40 years. Few data about elderly patients are reported in the literature. Our aim was to evaluate the clinical phen...
Cases of chronic or prolonged hepatitis E virus (HEV) infections have been described in solid organ transplant recipients, HIV infected patients and in patients with malignancies or idiopathic CD4+ T lymphopenia. It is unknown if HEV infection also t...
Gastric carcinoma (GC) represents the most common cause of death in patients with common variable immunodeficiency (CVID). However, a limited number of cases have been characterised so far. In this study, we analysed the clinical features, bacterial/...
Background: Common variable immunodeficiency is a heterogeneous disorder characterized by defects in antibody production and immune dysregulation, associated with infections and autoimmunity. Although structural and cognitive effects of CVID on the c...
Sarcoidosis and Granulomatous and Lymphocytic Interstitial Lung Diseases (GLILD) are two rare entities primarily characterised by the development of Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) in the context of systemic immune dysregulation. These two conditions...
This study aims to gain a deeper understanding of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) by studying immune cells and specific immune checkpoint signaling pathways. The analysis of the percentage of selected im...
Selective IgA deficiency (SIgAD) is the most common form and common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is the most symptomatic form of predominant antibody deficiency. Despite differences in the clinical picture, a similar genetic background is suggest...
The pediatric common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is the most frequent symptomatic antibody production defect characterized by infectious and non-infectious autoimmune, inflammatory, and lymphoproliferative complications. The background for CVID-...
Background/Objectives: Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) represents a rare but clinically significant complication in patients with Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID). Immune dysregulation, impaired viral control, and Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) infectio...
Background and Clinical Significance: Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is a primary B-cell immunodeficiency disorder, characterized by severe hypogammaglobulinemia and disturbed antibody production. In addition to increased susceptibility to r...
Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID) is a heterogeneous primary immunodeficiency disorder characterised by impaired antibody production, leading to recurrent infections and an increased susceptibility to viral pathogens. This literature review aim...
Background and objectives: Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is a primary immunodeficiency characterized by decreased immunoglobulins and recurrent infections, with non-infectious complications such as granulomatous–lymphocytic interstiti...
Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is the most common symptomatic immunodeficiency in adults. It comprises a group of syndromes whose etiology involves genetic, epigenetic, microbiota, and environmental factors. We present the case of a 46-year-...
Background/Objectives: Gastrointestinal diseases are a major cause of morbidity in common variable immunodeficiency disorder (CVID), clinically often mimicking other conditions including celiac disease and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Hence, dia...
Although lymphoma is the most frequent malignancy in common variable immunodeficiency (CVID), solid tumors, especially affected by oncogenic viruses, are not considered. Furthermore, in vitro genetic studies and cell cultures are not adequate for imm...
Background: Immunodeficiencies are a heterogeneous group of disorders classified etiologically as primary (congenital) or secondary (acquired). Primary immunodeficiencies (PIDs), such as common variable immunodeficiency (CVID), result from genetic mu...
Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is an antibody immunodeficiency with a wide variety of clinical and immunological manifestations, and whose genetic cause is found in about 25% of diagnosed cases. Giardia lamblia is one of the main causes of g...
Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is the most frequent form of primary hypogammaglobulinemia in adults. In addition to recurrent infections and respiratory manifestations, CVID patients may present several non-infection complications such as au...
Norovirus is the most common cause of acute non-bacterial gastroenteritis. Immunocompromised patients can become chronically infected, with or without symptoms. In Europe, common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is one of the most common inborn error...
In recent years, the incidence of immune-mediated gastrointestinal disorders, including celiac disease (CeD) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), is increasingly growing worldwide. This generates a need to elucidate the conditions that may compromis...
Background/Objectives: Common Variable Immunodeficiency Disease (CVID) and other immunodeficiencies can present in subtle and variable ways. Whether or not a genetic lesion can be identified, there are not well understood biomarkers that quantitative...
During the last years, studies investigating the intriguing association between immunodeficiency and autoimmunity led to the discovery of new monogenic disorders, the improvement in the knowledge of the pathogenesis of autoimmunity, and the introduct...
Background and Clinical Significance: Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID) is a prevalent manifestation of primary immunodeficiency disorder. The current mainstay of treatment is immunoglobulin replacement therapy; however, in patients with severe...
Background. A major concern in the care of common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) patients is the persistence of subclinical or recurrent respiratory tract infections (RRTI) despite adequate trough IgG levels, which impacts the quality of life (QoL)...
Most patients with primary immune deficiency suffer from recurrent infections; however, paradoxical autoimmune phenomena can also manifest. The aim of this study was to identify immunological markers of autoimmune phenomena associated with common var...
Background. Influenza prophylaxis with the use of quadrivalent vaccines (QIV) is increasingly being introduced into healthcare practice. Methods. In total, 32 healthy adults and 6 patients with common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) received adjuvan...
Primary immunodeficiencies (PIDs) and secondary immunodeficiencies (SIDs) are characterized by compromised immune function, rendering individuals susceptible to infections and potentially influencing cancer development. Epstein–Barr virus (EBV)...
Immune dysregulation is being increasingly recognized as a prominent feature of a wide range inborn errors of immunity (IEIs) with different molecular backgrounds. Among the manifestations of immune dysregulation, inflammatory arthritis has emerged a...
Campylobacter jejuni is a leading cause of bacterial gastroenteritis worldwide which usually presents as mild, and self-limiting disease in immunocompetent individuals. However, in immunocompromised patients, such as those with common variable immuno...
There is limited evidence to guide successful treatment of recurrent Campylobacter infection in patients with common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) already managed on regular immunoglobulin therapy. The role of faecal microbiota transplant (FMT) is...
Background and objectives: Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is the most prevalent antibody impairment. It is characterized by failure in immunoglobulin and protective antibody generation and defined by an increased tendency toward bacterial in...
The phenotype of primary immunodeficiency disorders (PID), and especially common variable immunodeficiency (CVID), may be dominated by symptoms of autoimmune disorders. Furthermore, autoimmunity may be the first manifestation of PID, frequently prece...
We sought to determine predictors of shingles reports in adults with common variable immunodeficiency or immunoglobulin (Ig) G subclass deficiency (CVID/IgGSD). We tabulated observations at diagnosis of CVID/IgGSD in 212 white adult index patients (1...
Background and Aims: Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) comprises a group of diseases with heterogeneous clinical and immunological manifestations. Several mutations have been identified in genes encoding proteins essential for immune function....
SARS-CoV-2 vaccination is the standard of care for the prevention of COVID-19 disease. Although vaccination triggers both humoral and cellular immune response, COVID-19 vaccination efficacy is currently evaluated by measuring antibodies only, whereas...
Background and Objectives: Predominantly antibody deficiencies (PAD) represent the most common type of primary immunodeficiencies in humans, characterized by a wide variation in disease onset, clinical manifestations, and outcome. Considering that th...
Background: An unclassified primary antibody deficiency (unPAD) is a widely heterogeneous clinical entity, recently identified within the spectrum of Inborn Errors of Immunity (IEIs). Since unPAD has been traditionally considered as a mild condition,...
I have read with great interest the case reported by Modrzewska K., Wiatr E., Langfort R., Oniszh K., Roszkowski-Śliż K. in the journal [...]
Patients with predominantly antibody deficiencies (PADs) display hypogammaglobulinemia with a high prevalence of infections, along with autoimmune manifestations, benign and malignant lymphoproliferation and granulomatous disease. It is noteworthy th...
(1) Background: Mutations in NFκB1, a transcriptional regulator of immunomodulating proteins, are a known cause of inborn errors of immunity. Our proband is a 22-year-old male with a diagnosis of common variable immunodeficiency (CVID), cytopen...
Predominantly antibody deficiencies (PADs) are the most prevalent types of inherited errors of immunity (IEI) and are characterized by a broad range of clinical manifestations, such as recurrent infections, autoimmunity, lymphoproliferation, atopy an...
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