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Abstract
Selective immunoglobulin M deficiency (sIgMD) is an immunodeficiency with undefined pathogenesis and commonly presenting with recurrent infections.1 The European Society for Immunodeficiencies Registry defines sIgMD as a serum IgM level repeatedly below 2 SD of normal with normal levels of serum IgA, IgG and IgG subclasses, normal vaccination responses, absence of T-cell defects and absence of causative external factors. Rarely it can also be associated with autoimmune diseases.2–7 Here we describe a patient with primary sIgMD; who presented with multiple autoimmune diseases without a history of recurrent infections and we provide a short literature review on sIgMD and autoimmune diseases.
- connective tissue disease
- immunology
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Contributors CC and SA: wrote the manuscript. VO, CPD and KENC revised it and substantially contributed to the latest version.
Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
Competing interests None declared.
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