AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA IN ADULTS
Authors: J W SAVACOOL, R P LANDES
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1957)

Case Reports1 March 1957AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA IN ADULTSJ. W. SAVACOOL, M.D., F.A.C.P., RAY P. LANDES, M.D.J. W. SAVACOOL, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this author, RAY P. LANDES, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-46-3-628 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe purpose of this report is to call attention to another case of agammaglobulinemia in an adult, to emphasize a few of the features of this interesting process, and to add to the accumulating data with respect to its association with various relatively common pathologic processes.CASE REPORTA 38 year old white male clerk was admitted to Grand View Hospital May 29, 1954, with an 18 month history of recurrent episodes of fever, chills, sweats, coughs, expectoration, bilateral anterior chest pain and weakness.As a child he had apparently had good health, having had only measles. At about the...Bibliography1. SanfordFavourTribeman JPCBMS: Absence of serum gamma globulin in an adult, New England J. Med. 250: 1027-1029 (June 17) 1954. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. Bruton OC: Agammaglobulinemia, Pediatrics 9: 722-728 (June) 1952. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar3. PrasadKoza ASDW: Agammaglobulinemia, Ann. Int. Med. 41: 629-639 (Sept.) 1954. LinkGoogle Scholar4. ZinnemanHallHeller HHWHBI: Acquired agammaglobulinemia, J. A. M. A. 156: 1390-1393 (Dec. 11) 1954. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar5. RohmBehnkeBond RJRHWH: Acquired agammaglobulinemia and hypersplenism, J. Lab. and Clin. Med. 44: 918, 1954. Google Scholar6. GrantWallace AHWD: Agammaglobulinemia, Lancet 2: 671-673 (Oct. 2) 1954. CrossrefGoogle Scholar7. WallSaslaw RLS: Adult agammaglobulinemia, Arch. Int. Med. 95: 33-36 (Jan.) 1955. CrossrefGoogle Scholar8. Verschure JD: Gammaglobulinopenia, Nederl. tijdschr. v. geneesk. 98: 2805, 1954. MedlineGoogle Scholar9. CraigGitlinJewett JMDTC: The response of lymph nodes of normal and congenitally agammaglobulinemic children to antigenic stimulation, Am. J. Dis. Child. 88: 626 (Nov.) 1954. Google Scholar10. JanewayCraigDavidsonDowneyGitlinSullivan CAJAMWDJC: Hypergammaglobinemia associated with severe recurrent and chronic nonspecific infection, Am. J. Dis. Child. 88: 388, 1954. Google Scholar11. HamburgerPetermann FMC: Studies on hypoproteinemia. II. Familial idiopathic dysproteinemia: Blood 4: 1085-1108 (Oct.) 1949. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar12. Good RA: Agammaglobulinemia: a provocative experiment of Nature, Bull. Univ. Minnesota Hospitals and Minnesota Med. Foundation 26: 1, 1954. Google Scholar13. YoungWolfson IIWQ: The agammaglobulinemia syndrome in adult men: its differentiation into familial lymphopenic agammaglobulinemia, Clin. Res. Proc. 2: 101, 1954. Google Scholar14. GoodKelley RAVC: Adrenal cortical function in patients with agammaglobulinemia, Proc. Soc. Exper. Biol. and Med. 88: 99-101 (Jan.) 1955. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar15. LaskiSass-KorstakHillman BADA: Cyclic neutropenia and agammaglobulinemia, Am. J. Dis. Child. 88: 820-821, 1954. Google Scholar16. ReinerStern MKG: Electrophoretic studies on the protein distribution in the serum of multiple myeloma patients, Acta hematol. 9: 19-29 (Jan.) 1953. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar17. Brownell EG: Multiple myeloma, Arch. Int. Med. 95: 699-704 (May) 1955. CrossrefGoogle Scholar18. Reimann HA: Periodic disease: report of old cases, new cases and therapy, Arch. Int. Med. 92: 494-506 (Oct.) 1953. CrossrefGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAuthors: J. W. SAVACOOL, M.D., F.A.C.P.; RAY P. LANDES, M.D.Affiliations: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania*Received for publication November 5, 1955.From the Barton Division and the Department of Medicine, Jefferson Medical College Hospital, Philadelphia, and the Grand View Hospital, Sellersville, Pennsylvania.Requests for reprints should be addressed to J. W. Savacool, M.D., 146 West Tulpehocken Street, Philadelphia 44, Pennsylvania. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byIdiopathic Acquired Agammaglobulinemia Associated with ThymomaHOST-PARASITE RELATIONSHIPS IN PATIENTS WITH DYSPROTEINEMIAS 1 March 1957Volume 46, Issue 3Page: 628-637KeywordsAntibioticsChild healthFeversHospital medicineIschemiaMeaslesPneumoniaProteinsSweatUpper respiratory tract infections ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 March 1957 PDF downloadLoading ...