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Case Reports
. 2020 Apr-Jun;66(2):102-104.
doi: 10.4103/jpgm.JPGM_324_19.

Idiopathic CD4+ T lymphocytopenia: A case report

S Umamaheshwari  1 , M N Sumana  2 , M S Shetty  3 , S Gopal  1
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Idiopathic CD4+ T lymphocytopenia: A case report

S Umamaheshwari et al. J Postgrad Med. 2020 Apr-Jun.

Abstract

Idiopathic CD4+ T lymphocytopenia (ICL) is a very rare immunodeficiency syndrome with an unexplained depletion of CD4+ T lymphocytes and no evidence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection. Here we report a 29-year-old male patient who had severe ulcerative colitis with low level CD4+ count of 254 cells/mm3, and had no evidence of HIV or Human T cell Lymphotrophic virus type I or II infections. He had recurrent Candidiasis infection and his CD4 count was just 53 cells/mm3 after 3 months. The cause for the decline of CD4 T lymphocytes was unknown.

Keywords: CD4 depletion; Candida; lymphocytopenia.

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