In article <338DA461.7572 at sprintmail.com> MarkLeventhal <markleventhal at sprintmail.com> writes:
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>Subject: What is my Doctor telling me>
>Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 08:44:33 -0700
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>I have been treated for CVID, common variable immune def, for the past
>18
>years. I have been infusing gammablobulin for the past 15.
>Attached to my latest labs was the note, ". . . you have a robust number
>of T cells acn T cell subsets and the problem appears to be a paucity of
>B cells. This is one pattern well seen in common variable."
>What does this mean? I know my T cells work well -- We did some skin
>tests last year and I reacted very aggesssively.
>Does this tell us anything about my prognosis and treatment plan?
>--
>Mark Leventhal
>2770 Belgrave Road Pepper Pike, OH 44124-4602
Mark:
I believe that Lou Alarcon's advice is the best: Ask your
doctor. Just as a very brief introduction: A set of T cells starts
and controls the inmune response, another set stimulates macrophages
to eat pathogens, other sets do other things less important to you
at this time. B cells are the cells that ultimately produce the
antibodies which kill pathogens by other means than eating them.
That must be the reason why you have been given immunoglobulins (that
are antibodies formed by another person).
To even attempt an opinion about treatment or prognosis would
take a lot more information and the best person to do that is your
physician.
Good luck
Omar O. Barriga
