title: Primary antibody deficiency and Crohn's disease.
abstract: Five patients with primary antibody deficiency were investigated because of intermittent but persistent diarrhoea of several years duration despite immunoglobulin replacement therapy. We found no evidence of Giardia lambia or other intestinal pathogens to explain their gastrointestinal symptoms. All five had definite radiological evidence of small bowel Crohn's disease and three had histological specimens available with abnormalities consistent with Crohn's disease. One patient had a non-caseating granuloma in an oral ulcer. A second patient with stricturing disease in the small bowel had a mucosal inflammatory infiltrate with non-caseating granulomas. A third had transmural inflammation but no granulomas. All five patents were diagnosed as having Crohn's disease and have responded symptomatically to steroid therapy.
authors.affiliation: Hope Hospital, Salford, UK.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Conlong
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Rees
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Shaffer
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nicholson
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jewell
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Heaney
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Snowden
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000276:immunology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000276:immunology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007153:Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes / Q000276:immunology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013256:Steroids / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D013256:Steroids