Hypogammaglobulinemia
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| Hypogammaglobulinemia | |
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| Classification and external resources | |
| ICD-10 | D80.0-D80.1 |
| ICD-9 | 279.00 |
| DiseasesDB | 6426 |
| MedlinePlus | 001307 |
| eMedicine | med/1120 ped/54 |
| MeSH | D000361 |
Hypogammaglobulinemia is a type of immune disorder characterized by a reduction in all types of gamma globulins.[1]
It is distinguished from dysgammaglobulinemia, which is a reduction in some types of gamma globulins, but not others.[2][3]
It is largely synonymous with "agammaglobulinemia". When this term is used (as in "X-linked agammaglobulinemia") it implies that gamma globulins are not merely reduced, but completely absent. Modern assays have allowed most agammaglobulinemias to be more precisely defined as hypogammaglobulinemias,[4] but the distinction is not usually clinically relevant.
Hypogammaglobulinemia is a characteristic of common variable immunodeficiency.[5]
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[edit] External links
- Hypogammaglobulinemia at Dorland's Medical Dictionary
- Mark E. Rose & David M. Lang: "Evaluating and managing hypogammaglobulinemia", Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, Vol. 73, No. 2 (February 2006), pp. 133- 144. Accessed 2009-07-17.
- Robert Y Li et al: "Hypogammaglobulinemia", Medscape. Accessed 2009-07-17.
- Saul Greenberg: "Hypogammaglobulinemia ". Accessed 2009-07-17.
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