Basic Summary for Primary Immune Deficiency

Main name of condition: Primary Immune Deficiency
Other names or spellings: primary immunodeficiency, PI, congenital immunodeficiency

What is Primary Immune Deficiency?
  Brief description of Primary Immune Deficiency: Various types of immune deficiencies; usually genetic.
  Parent types of Primary Immune Deficiency: Immune disorders, Immune deficiency conditions, Bizarre medical conditions
  Organs Affected by Primary Immune Deficiency: immune system
  Types of Primary Immune Deficiency: Selective IgA Deficiency, Common Variable Immunodeficiency, Chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis, X-Linked Agammaglobulinemia, Chronic Granulomatous Disease, Hyper-IgM Syndrome, X-linked Hyper-IgM Syndrome, SCID, SCID-ADA deficiency, DiGeorge Anomaly, Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome, Ataxia Telangiectasia, IgG Subclass Deficiency, Partial Combined Immunodeficiencies, Cartilage Hair Hypoplasia, Leukocyte Adhesion Defect, Chediak-Higashi Syndrome, Complement deficiencies, Hyper-IgE Syndrome, Purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) deficiency

Who gets Primary Immune Deficiency?
  Patient Profile for Primary Immune Deficiency: Usually symptoms in infancy or early childhood
  Profile for Primary Immune Deficiency: More boys than girls have PI, and patients’ first symptoms often begin in infancy or later in childhood. ¹
  Gender Profile for Primary Immune Deficiency: More boys than girls.

How serious is Primary Immune Deficiency?
Complications of Primary Immune Deficiency: see complications of Primary Immune Deficiency

What causes Primary Immune Deficiency?
Class of Condition for Primary Immune Deficiency: congenital.defect

What are the symptoms of Primary Immune Deficiency?
Symptoms of Primary Immune Deficiency: see symptoms of Primary Immune Deficiency

How is it treated?
Specialists for Primary Immune Deficiency: Immunologist, Pulmonologists, Rheumatologists, Gastroenterologists, Hematologists
Treatments for Primary Immune Deficiency: see treatments for Primary Immune Deficiency

Footnotes:
1. excerpt from Primary Immune Deficiency, NIAID Fact Sheet: NIAID

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