BAFF-associated granulomatous lung disease in a patient with GATA2 deficiency.

ABSTRACT: A patient with GATA2 deficiency developed corticosteroid-responsive sterile granulomatous lung disease despite monocytopenia. The presence of B-lymphopenia, autoimmunity, an elevated level of serum B-cell-activating factor, and pulmonary plasma cell infiltration, which together suggested an underlying mechanism similar to that of combined variable immunodeficiency lung disease.

SUBMITTER: Yasutomi-Sakai M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11426032 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature