An 18-year-old woman with pulmonary nodules found to have cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 deficiency.
Sahar Al BaroudiJoseph Michael CollacoSharon McGrath-MorrowPublished in: BMJ case reports (2019)
An 18-year-old woman was admitted with abdominal pain and hematochezia. She was previously healthy until 15 years of age and was subsequently diagnosed with hypogammaglobulinemia, protein-losing enteropathy, a benign temporal lobe brain lesion/orbital fibroadenoma, autoimmune hepatitis, iron deficiency anaemia and hypothyroidism. She developed respiratory distress and hypoxemia. She was found to have nodules on chest CT scan. She was diagnosed with cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 deficiency via genetic testing.
Keyphrases
- iron deficiency
- abdominal pain
- replacement therapy
- computed tomography
- peripheral blood
- dual energy
- case report
- pulmonary hypertension
- multiple sclerosis
- white matter
- image quality
- resting state
- contrast enhanced
- positron emission tomography
- protein protein
- magnetic resonance imaging
- smoking cessation
- amino acid
- small molecule
- binding protein
- blood brain barrier
- drug induced
- magnetic resonance
- respiratory tract