Background: Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID) is the most frequent type of severe primary immunodeficiency (PID). Clinical manifestations of CVID occur at any age; nevertheless, they are more frequent between the age of 6 and 10 years, and between the age of 20 and 40 years. In medical literature, there are hardly any diagnostic reports on CVID after 50 years of age.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To report a case of a child with primary immunodeficiency who at eight years developed digestive symptoms, culminating with the diagnosis of a neuroendocrine tumor at ten years of age.
Case Description: One-year-old boy began to present recurrent pneumonias in different pulmonary lobes. At four years of age, an immunological investigation showed a decrease in IgG and IgA serum levels.