Kostmann disease and other forms of severe congenital neutropenia.

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Congenital neutropenia with autosomal recessive inheritance was first described by the Swedish paediatrician Rolf Kostmann who coined the term 'infantile genetic agranulocytosis'. The condition is now commonly referred to as Kostmann disease. These patients display a maturation arrest of the myelopoiesis in the bone marrow and reduced neutrophil numbers and suffer from recurrent, often life-threatening...

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