Sanfilippo syndrome type D.
Sanfilippo syndrome type D.
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D型桑菲利波综合征
DOI:
10.1016/s0022-3476(87)80171-3
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发表时间:
1987
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通讯作者:
L. Wolfe
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作者:
P. Kaplan;L. Wolfe
Volume 110 Clinical and laboratory observations 2 6 7 Number 2 antibody well, 5 but our patient had no evidence of such congenital or postnatal infection. Although patients with AIDS have impaired B cell function, their levels of immunoglobulins are usually normal or elevated. Immunoglobulin levels may be depressed, but this is usually late in the course of the disease. We found only two reports concerning panhypogammaglobulinemia in patients with AIDS. One described a man with common variable hypogammaglobulinemia and hemophilia in whom AIDS later developed, presumably through blood products. 6 Another report evaluated monkeys with simian AIDS; all of the monkeys had panhypogammaglobulinemia. 7 We cannot prove that our patient's profound panhypogammaglobulinemia at presentation was a consequence of infection with the AIDS virus. Infection with HIV in most patients with AIDS results in polyclonal activation of at least one of the immunoglobulin classes. Though patients with AIDS have hypergammaglobulinemia, there usually is a deficiency in the ability to mount specific antibody to newly encountered antigens. 8 These findings could be explained by a decrease in the number of helper T cells with concomitant loss of the ability to" help" in immunoglobulin synthesis by B cells. This has been particularly important in pediatric AIDS in which there are frequent bacterial infections.We also have no proof that this child did not have a chance occurrence of both AIDS and a nonrelated immunodeficiency disorder, because no autopsy was performed, but her immunologic profile fits none of the known immunodeficiencies other than AIDS. It is not clear why this patient continued to have very low immunoglobulin levels, in contrast to other patients with transplacentally acquired pediatric AIDS who have hypergammaglobulinemia, often at very early stages. 9 We suggest that