Hypogammaglobulinemia
Hypogammaglobulinemia is a type of primary immune deficiency disease.[1]
Hypogammaglobulinemia is a characteristic of common variable immunodeficiency.[2]
Terminology
"Hypogammaglobulinemia" is largely synonymous with "agammaglobulinemia". When the latter term is used (as in "X-linked agammaglobulinemia") it implies that gamma globulins are not merely reduced, but completely absent. Modern assays have allowed most agammaglobulinemias to be more precisely defined as hypogammaglobulinemias,[3] but the distinction is not usually clinically relevant.
"Hypogammaglobulinemia" is distinguished from dysgammaglobulinemia, which is a reduction in some types of gamma globulins, but not others.[4]
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- globular proteins
- globins
- antibodies
- serpins
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