Dementia in a patient with Thymoma and hypogammaglobulinaemia (Good's syndrome).
Good's syndrome is extremely rare and refers to an acquired B and T cell immunodeficiency in thymoma patients. The authors of this article present a case report of a 75-year-old, caucasian male patient previously subjected to examinations for secondary dementia and recurrent infections, which revealed paraneoplastic syndrome arose from thymoma. He underwent thymectomy, while his immunodeficiency syndrome sustained with frequent opportunistic infections, constantly requiring intravenous immunoglobulin treatment.
de Jesus
Nelson Pedro Ferreira
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Hospitais da Universidade Coimbra, Serviço de Medicina II, Av, Bissaya Barreto e Praceta Prof, Mota Pinto, 3000-075, Coimbra, Portugal. nelsonpjesus@gmail.com.
Carvalho
Patrícia Margarida Serra
PM
Dias
Florbela Maria Grilo
FM
Gaspar
Elsa Maria Filipe
EM
de Moura
José Júlio Alves
JJ