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Imaging Features of Systemic Sclerosis-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease
Published on: June 16, 2020
Evidence of pulmonary arterial hypertension in two patients with common variable immunodeficiency
Jessica Huston1, Joyce Johnson2, Anna Hemnes3
1Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, USA.
Abstract:
Common variable immunodeficiency is a chronic illness plagued with recurrent infections and the potential to develop autoimmune disease. These patients may manifest a spectrum of complications ranging from hematologic malignancy to chronic parenchymal lung disease. Regular immunoglobulin replacement therapy improves immunologic debility but does not mitigate other features of this disease. Here, we discuss a complication of common variable immunodeficiency not previously characterized in the literature. We present two cases of advanced pulmonary vascular disease associated with common variable immunodeficiency treated with pulmonary vasodilators.
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