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Successful treatment with infliximab for inflammatory colitis in a patient with X-linked anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia with immunodeficiency.
Journal of clinical immunology - 1 Feb 2012
Mizukami Tomoyuki, Obara Megumi, Nishikomori Ryuta, Kawai Tomoki, Tahara Yoshihiro, Sameshima Naoki, Marutsuka Kousuke, Nakase Hiroshi, Kimura Nobuhiro, Heike Toshio, Nunoi Hiroyuki
Abstract excerpt
X-linked anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia with immunodeficiency (X-EDA-ID) is caused by hypomorphic mutations in the gene encoding nuclear factor-κB essential modulator protein (NEMO). Patients are susceptibile to diverse pathogens due to insufficient cytokine and frequently show severe chronic colitis. An 11-year-old boy with X-EDA-ID was hospitalized with autoimmune symptoms and severe chronic colitis which had...
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