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[Lymphoplasmacytoid lymphoma and the immune system in patients with this type of lymphoma]
J Dwilewicz-Trojaczek1, A Kendziorek, E Paprocka
1Kliniki Hematologii AM w Warszawie.
Polski Tygodnik Lekarski (Warsaw, Poland : 1960)
|May 1, 1996
Abstract:
Among 82 patients with L-LP in clinical stage IV, 14% were found to have monoclonal gammapathy and 22% polyclonal gammapathy. The other classes of immunoglobulins were not affected. In 78%, cell immunity was impaired. Decrease in T cell count (CD2+ and CD3+) in blood was found. Particularly T helper cells (CD4+), to a lesser degree T suppressor cells (CD8+) were affected. The life time of patients varied from 3 to 120 months. 60% of deaths were caused by infection.