She once complained to the government agency that runs the hospital where her 7-year-old son, Diego Emilio, is treated for his illness, agammaglobulinemia. |
In the rare hereditary disorder called X-linked infantile agammaglobulinemia, which affects only males, B lymphocytes are unable to secrete all classes of immunoglobulins. |
For the past 20 years, intravenously administered immune globulin has been used in the treatment of agammaglobulinemia. |
One would anticipate seeing more of this type of disease in lymphoma leading to agammaglobulinemia, either with or without bronchiectisis. |
Mapping of the X-linked agammaglobulinemia locus by use of restriction fragment-length polymorphism. |
Pleural cryptococcosis has been reported to be associated with HIV infection, liver cirrhosis, and Bruton's agammaglobulinemia. |