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01-12-2014 | Case Report
A Bad Case of Good’s Syndrome
Authors:
Raffi Tachdjian, Janet J. Keller, Michael Pfeffer
Published in:
Infectious Diseases and Therapy
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Issue 2/2014
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Abstract
Good’s syndrome is a relatively rare immunodeficiency condition that presents in the fourth or fifth decade of life and is defined by hypogammaglobulinemia in the setting of a thymoma. The humoral defect may be severe enough to cause an absence in B cells, with a consequent recurrence of sinopulmonary disease, chronic non-infectious diarrhea and opportunistic infections. The prognosis in patients with Good’s syndrome appears to be worse than in those with X-linked agammaglobulinemia (XLA) and common variable immune deficiency (CVID). There have only been three cases of Good’s syndrome associated with mycobacterium, and only one case with a cavitary lesion in the lungs. We present here a unique case of Good’s syndrome with a non-mycobacterial cavitary lesion.