RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 CD4+ lymphocytopenia due to common variable immunodeficiency mimicking AIDS.
JF Journal of Clinical Pathology
JO J Clin Pathol
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Association of Clinical Pathologists
SP 364
OP 366
DO 10.1136/jcp.47.4.364
VO 47
IS 4
A1 R S Kaczmarski
A1 A D Webster
A1 J Moxham
A1 F Davison
A1 S Sutherland
A1 G J Mufti
YR 1994
UL http://jcp.bmj.com/content/47/4/364.abstract
AB There are an increasing number of published reports of patients with acquired immunodeficiency without evidence of HIV infection, who have been labelled as having "idiopathic CD4+ lymphocytopenia". The case is reported here of a young man who presented with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), CD4+ lymphopenia, and hypogammaglobulinaemia attributable to common variable immunodeficiency (CVID). The presentation of this condition, with many of the clinical and laboratory features of AIDS, highlights CVID as a diagnosis to be considered in the differential diagnosis of CD4+ lymphocytopenia.