Hypogammaglobulinemia

Hypogammaglobulinemia
Hypogammaglobulinemia
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]

Hypogammaglobulinemia is a characteristic of common variable immunodeficiency.[2]

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Terminology

"Hypogammaglobulinemia" is distinguished from dysgammaglobulinemia, which is a reduction in some types of gamma globulins, but not others.[3][4]

"Hypogammaglobulinemia" 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,[5] but the distinction is not usually clinically relevant.

Types

Type OMIM Gene
AGM1 601495 IGHM
AGM2 613500 IGLL1
AGM3 613501 CD79A
AGM4 613502 BLNK
AGM5 613506 LRRC8A
AGM6 612692 CD79B

References

  1. ^ "hypogammaglobulinemia" at Dorland's Medical Dictionary
  2. ^ "common variable immunodeficiency" at Dorland's Medical Dictionary
  3. ^ "Dysgammaglobulinemia" at Dorland's Medical Dictionary
  4. ^ Dysgammaglobulinemia at eMedicine Dictionary
  5. ^ "agammaglobulinemia" at Dorland's Medical Dictionary

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