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A RARE CAUSE OF BRONCHIECTASIS – COMMON VARIABLE IMMUNODEFICIENCY

Kiruthika J .

Abstract


A 14 year oldboy admitted with complaints of cough with  expectoration and fever – 7 days.He had a past history of recurrent respiratory tract infections and chronic diarrhea since 1 year of age. On examination he had coarse    creptitations in left lower lobe. On investigating CT chest showed left lower lobe bronchiectasis. Immunoglobulin assay revealed decreased IgA, IgG, IgM and flowcytometry was normal. Finally he was diagnosed to have common variable immunodeficiency as a cause of bronchiectasis.

 keywords: Bronchiectasis,common variable     immunodeficiency

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