Author/Editor | Ambrožič, Jana; Logar, Dušan; Štajer, Dušan; Gorjup, Vojka; Kos-Golja, Mojca; Horvat, Matija | |
Title | Recurrent sepsis and seronegative arthritis in a patient with a selective IgG3 deficiency | |
Type | članek | |
Source | Wien Klin Wochenschr | |
Vol. and No. | Letnik 112, št. 15-16 | |
Publication year | 2000 | |
Volume | str. 735-7 | |
Language | eng | |
Abstract | In a sixty-one-year-old patient with chronic polyarthritis, two life-threatening septic events were obseved over a period of 6 months. The patient also had a selective IgG3 deficiency. The susceptibiloty to infection and chronic polyarthritis observed in this patient were very likely a consequence of the selective IgG3 deficiency. | |
Descriptors | SEPSIS AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA ARTHRITIS IGG DEFICIENCY MIDDLE AGE DIABETES MELLITUS, NON-INSULIN-DEPENDENT MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE |