title: Recurrent sepsis and seronegative arthritis in a patient with a selective IgG3 deficiency.
abstract: In a sixty-one-year-old patient with chronic polyarthritis, two life-threatening septic events were observed over a period of 6 months. The patient also had a selective IgG3 deficiency. The susceptibility to infection and chronic polyarthritis observed in this patient were very likely a consequence of the selective IgG3 deficiency.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Intensive Internal Medicine, University Medical Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ambrozic
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Logar
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Stajer
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gorjup
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Golja
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Horvat
mesh_terms: D001168:Arthritis / Q000150:complications* / Q000276:immunology; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000150:complications; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D017099:IgG Deficiency / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000276:immunology; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000097:blood*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012008:Recurrence; D012074:Remission Induction; D018805:Sepsis / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D007074:Immunoglobulin G