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Immunodeficiency, common variable, 4(CVID4)

MedGen UID:
462089
Concept ID:
C3150739
Disease or Syndrome
Synonym: ANTIBODY DEFICIENCY DUE TO BAFFR DEFECT
 
Gene (location): TNFRSF13C (22q13.2)
 
Monarch Initiative: MONDO:0013284
OMIM®: 613494

Clinical features

From HPO
Recurrent sinusitis
MedGen UID:
107919
Concept ID:
C0581354
Disease or Syndrome
A recurrent form of sinusitis.
Recurrent pneumonia
MedGen UID:
195802
Concept ID:
C0694550
Disease or Syndrome
An increased susceptibility to pneumonia as manifested by a history of recurrent episodes of pneumonia.
Decreased circulating total IgM
MedGen UID:
116095
Concept ID:
C0239989
Finding
An abnormally decreased level of immunoglobulin M (IgM) in blood.
Recurrent bacterial infections
MedGen UID:
334943
Concept ID:
C1844383
Finding
Increased susceptibility to bacterial infections, as manifested by recurrent episodes of bacterial infection.
Combined immunodeficiency
MedGen UID:
751396
Concept ID:
C2711630
Disease or Syndrome
A group of phenotypically heterogeneous genetic disorders characterized by profound deficiencies of T- and B-cell function, which predispose the patients to both infectious and noninfectious complications.
Abnormal T cell count
MedGen UID:
866762
Concept ID:
C4021113
Finding
A deviation from the normal count of T cells.
Complete or near-complete absence of specific antibody response to unconjugated pneumococcus vaccine
MedGen UID:
1704477
Concept ID:
C5139463
Finding
The inability to synthesize postvaccination antibodies against a pneumococcus antigen, as measured by antibody titer determination following vaccination.
Decreased circulating IgG concentration
MedGen UID:
1720114
Concept ID:
C5234937
Finding
An abnormally decreased level of immunoglobulin G (IgG) in blood.

Professional guidelines

PubMed

Green PHR, Paski S, Ko CW, Rubio-Tapia A
Gastroenterology 2022 Nov;163(5):1461-1469. Epub 2022 Sep 19 doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2022.07.086. PMID: 36137844
Thaventhiran JED, Lango Allen H, Burren OS, Rae W, Greene D, Staples E, Zhang Z, Farmery JHR, Simeoni I, Rivers E, Maimaris J, Penkett CJ, Stephens J, Deevi SVV, Sanchis-Juan A, Gleadall NS, Thomas MJ, Sargur RB, Gordins P, Baxendale HE, Brown M, Tuijnenburg P, Worth A, Hanson S, Linger RJ, Buckland MS, Rayner-Matthews PJ, Gilmour KC, Samarghitean C, Seneviratne SL, Sansom DM, Lynch AG, Megy K, Ellinghaus E, Ellinghaus D, Jorgensen SF, Karlsen TH, Stirrups KE, Cutler AJ, Kumararatne DS, Chandra A, Edgar JDM, Herwadkar A, Cooper N, Grigoriadou S, Huissoon AP, Goddard S, Jolles S, Schuetz C, Boschann F; Primary Immunodeficiency Consortium for the NIHR Bioresource, Lyons PA, Hurles ME, Savic S, Burns SO, Kuijpers TW, Turro E, Ouwehand WH, Thrasher AJ, Smith KGC
Nature 2020 Jul;583(7814):90-95. Epub 2020 May 6 doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2265-1. PMID: 32499645Free PMC Article
Schwab C, Gabrysch A, Olbrich P, Patiño V, Warnatz K, Wolff D, Hoshino A, Kobayashi M, Imai K, Takagi M, Dybedal I, Haddock JA, Sansom DM, Lucena JM, Seidl M, Schmitt-Graeff A, Reiser V, Emmerich F, Frede N, Bulashevska A, Salzer U, Schubert D, Hayakawa S, Okada S, Kanariou M, Kucuk ZY, Chapdelaine H, Petruzelkova L, Sumnik Z, Sediva A, Slatter M, Arkwright PD, Cant A, Lorenz HM, Giese T, Lougaris V, Plebani A, Price C, Sullivan KE, Moutschen M, Litzman J, Freiberger T, van de Veerdonk FL, Recher M, Albert MH, Hauck F, Seneviratne S, Pachlopnik Schmid J, Kolios A, Unglik G, Klemann C, Speckmann C, Ehl S, Leichtner A, Blumberg R, Franke A, Snapper S, Zeissig S, Cunningham-Rundles C, Giulino-Roth L, Elemento O, Dückers G, Niehues T, Fronkova E, Kanderová V, Platt CD, Chou J, Chatila TA, Geha R, McDermott E, Bunn S, Kurzai M, Schulz A, Alsina L, Casals F, Deyà-Martinez A, Hambleton S, Kanegane H, Taskén K, Neth O, Grimbacher B
J Allergy Clin Immunol 2018 Dec;142(6):1932-1946. Epub 2018 May 4 doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2018.02.055. PMID: 29729943Free PMC Article

Recent clinical studies

Etiology

Ballow M, Sánchez-Ramón S, Walter JE
Front Immunol 2022;13:928062. Epub 2022 Jul 18 doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.928062. PMID: 35924244Free PMC Article
Egg D, Rump IC, Mitsuiki N, Rojas-Restrepo J, Maccari ME, Schwab C, Gabrysch A, Warnatz K, Goldacker S, Patiño V, Wolff D, Okada S, Hayakawa S, Shikama Y, Kanda K, Imai K, Sotomatsu M, Kuwashima M, Kamiya T, Morio T, Matsumoto K, Mori T, Yoshimoto Y, Dybedal I, Kanariou M, Kucuk ZY, Chapdelaine H, Petruzelkova L, Lorenz HM, Sullivan KE, Heimall J, Moutschen M, Litzman J, Recher M, Albert MH, Hauck F, Seneviratne S, Pachlopnik Schmid J, Kolios A, Unglik G, Klemann C, Snapper S, Giulino-Roth L, Svaton M, Platt CD, Hambleton S, Neth O, Gosse G, Reinsch S, Holzinger D, Kim YJ, Bakhtiar S, Atschekzei F, Schmidt R, Sogkas G, Chandrakasan S, Rae W, Derfalvi B, Marquart HV, Ozen A, Kiykim A, Karakoc-Aydiner E, Králíčková P, de Bree G, Kiritsi D, Seidel MG, Kobbe R, Dantzer J, Alsina L, Armangue T, Lougaris V, Agyeman P, Nyström S, Buchbinder D, Arkwright PD, Grimbacher B
J Allergy Clin Immunol 2022 Feb;149(2):736-746. Epub 2021 Jun 7 doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2021.04.039. PMID: 34111452
Thaventhiran JED, Lango Allen H, Burren OS, Rae W, Greene D, Staples E, Zhang Z, Farmery JHR, Simeoni I, Rivers E, Maimaris J, Penkett CJ, Stephens J, Deevi SVV, Sanchis-Juan A, Gleadall NS, Thomas MJ, Sargur RB, Gordins P, Baxendale HE, Brown M, Tuijnenburg P, Worth A, Hanson S, Linger RJ, Buckland MS, Rayner-Matthews PJ, Gilmour KC, Samarghitean C, Seneviratne SL, Sansom DM, Lynch AG, Megy K, Ellinghaus E, Ellinghaus D, Jorgensen SF, Karlsen TH, Stirrups KE, Cutler AJ, Kumararatne DS, Chandra A, Edgar JDM, Herwadkar A, Cooper N, Grigoriadou S, Huissoon AP, Goddard S, Jolles S, Schuetz C, Boschann F; Primary Immunodeficiency Consortium for the NIHR Bioresource, Lyons PA, Hurles ME, Savic S, Burns SO, Kuijpers TW, Turro E, Ouwehand WH, Thrasher AJ, Smith KGC
Nature 2020 Jul;583(7814):90-95. Epub 2020 May 6 doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2265-1. PMID: 32499645Free PMC Article
Bonilla FA, Barlan I, Chapel H, Costa-Carvalho BT, Cunningham-Rundles C, de la Morena MT, Espinosa-Rosales FJ, Hammarström L, Nonoyama S, Quinti I, Routes JM, Tang ML, Warnatz K
J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract 2016 Jan-Feb;4(1):38-59. Epub 2015 Nov 7 doi: 10.1016/j.jaip.2015.07.025. PMID: 26563668Free PMC Article
Tam JS, Routes JM
Am J Rhinol Allergy 2013 Jul-Aug;27(4):260-5. doi: 10.2500/ajra.2013.27.3899. PMID: 23883805Free PMC Article

Diagnosis

Ballow M, Sánchez-Ramón S, Walter JE
Front Immunol 2022;13:928062. Epub 2022 Jul 18 doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.928062. PMID: 35924244Free PMC Article
Egg D, Rump IC, Mitsuiki N, Rojas-Restrepo J, Maccari ME, Schwab C, Gabrysch A, Warnatz K, Goldacker S, Patiño V, Wolff D, Okada S, Hayakawa S, Shikama Y, Kanda K, Imai K, Sotomatsu M, Kuwashima M, Kamiya T, Morio T, Matsumoto K, Mori T, Yoshimoto Y, Dybedal I, Kanariou M, Kucuk ZY, Chapdelaine H, Petruzelkova L, Lorenz HM, Sullivan KE, Heimall J, Moutschen M, Litzman J, Recher M, Albert MH, Hauck F, Seneviratne S, Pachlopnik Schmid J, Kolios A, Unglik G, Klemann C, Snapper S, Giulino-Roth L, Svaton M, Platt CD, Hambleton S, Neth O, Gosse G, Reinsch S, Holzinger D, Kim YJ, Bakhtiar S, Atschekzei F, Schmidt R, Sogkas G, Chandrakasan S, Rae W, Derfalvi B, Marquart HV, Ozen A, Kiykim A, Karakoc-Aydiner E, Králíčková P, de Bree G, Kiritsi D, Seidel MG, Kobbe R, Dantzer J, Alsina L, Armangue T, Lougaris V, Agyeman P, Nyström S, Buchbinder D, Arkwright PD, Grimbacher B
J Allergy Clin Immunol 2022 Feb;149(2):736-746. Epub 2021 Jun 7 doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2021.04.039. PMID: 34111452
Suri D, Rawat A, Singh S
Indian J Pediatr 2016 Apr;83(4):331-7. Epub 2016 Feb 24 doi: 10.1007/s12098-015-2024-8. PMID: 26909497
Saikia B, Gupta S
Indian J Pediatr 2016 Apr;83(4):338-44. Epub 2016 Feb 12 doi: 10.1007/s12098-016-2038-x. PMID: 26868026
Bonilla FA, Barlan I, Chapel H, Costa-Carvalho BT, Cunningham-Rundles C, de la Morena MT, Espinosa-Rosales FJ, Hammarström L, Nonoyama S, Quinti I, Routes JM, Tang ML, Warnatz K
J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract 2016 Jan-Feb;4(1):38-59. Epub 2015 Nov 7 doi: 10.1016/j.jaip.2015.07.025. PMID: 26563668Free PMC Article

Therapy

Rizvi FS, Zainaldain H, Rafiemanesh H, Jamee M, Hossein-Khannazer N, Hamedifar H, Sabzevari A, Yazdani R, Abolhassani H, Aghamohammadi A, Azizi G
Expert Rev Clin Immunol 2020 Dec;16(12):1227-1235. Epub 2020 Dec 7 doi: 10.1080/1744666X.2021.1850272. PMID: 33203275
Bonilla FA
Allergy Asthma Proc 2020 Jan 1;41(1):19-25. doi: 10.2500/aap.2020.41.190012. PMID: 31888779
Azizi G, Rezaei N, Kiaee F, Tavakolinia N, Yazdani R, Mirshafiey A, Aghamohammadi A
J Investig Allergol Clin Immunol 2016;26(4):233-43. Epub 2016 Apr 15 doi: 10.18176/jiaci.0069. PMID: 27374799
Tam JS, Routes JM
Am J Rhinol Allergy 2013 Jul-Aug;27(4):260-5. doi: 10.2500/ajra.2013.27.3899. PMID: 23883805Free PMC Article
Pasquet F, Kodjikian L, Mura F, Riviere S, Harroche J, Blanc AP, Chaix F, Oksenhendler E, Seve P; DEF-I study group
Ocul Immunol Inflamm 2012 Jun;20(3):163-70. Epub 2012 Apr 17 doi: 10.3109/09273948.2012.674612. PMID: 22506485

Prognosis

Green PHR, Paski S, Ko CW, Rubio-Tapia A
Gastroenterology 2022 Nov;163(5):1461-1469. Epub 2022 Sep 19 doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2022.07.086. PMID: 36137844
Lorenzini T, Fliegauf M, Klammer N, Frede N, Proietti M, Bulashevska A, Camacho-Ordonez N, Varjosalo M, Kinnunen M, de Vries E, van der Meer JWM, Ameratunga R, Roifman CM, Schejter YD, Kobbe R, Hautala T, Atschekzei F, Schmidt RE, Schröder C, Stepensky P, Shadur B, Pedroza LA, van der Flier M, Martínez-Gallo M, Gonzalez-Granado LI, Allende LM, Shcherbina A, Kuzmenko N, Zakharova V, Neves JF, Svec P, Fischer U, Ip W, Bartsch O, Barış S, Klein C, Geha R, Chou J, Alosaimi M, Weintraub L, Boztug K, Hirschmugl T, Dos Santos Vilela MM, Holzinger D, Seidl M, Lougaris V, Plebani A, Alsina L, Piquer-Gibert M, Deyà-Martínez A, Slade CA, Aghamohammadi A, Abolhassani H, Hammarström L, Kuismin O, Helminen M, Allen HL, Thaventhiran JE, Freeman AF, Cook M, Bakhtiar S, Christiansen M, Cunningham-Rundles C, Patel NC, Rae W, Niehues T, Brauer N, Syrjänen J, Seppänen MRJ, Burns SO, Tuijnenburg P, Kuijpers TW; NIHR BioResource, Warnatz K, Grimbacher B; NIHR BioResource
J Allergy Clin Immunol 2020 Oct;146(4):901-911. Epub 2020 Apr 9 doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2019.11.051. PMID: 32278790Free PMC Article
Swillen A, McDonald-McGinn D
Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet 2015 Jun;169(2):172-81. Epub 2015 May 18 doi: 10.1002/ajmg.c.31435. PMID: 25989227Free PMC Article
Tam JS, Routes JM
Am J Rhinol Allergy 2013 Jul-Aug;27(4):260-5. doi: 10.2500/ajra.2013.27.3899. PMID: 23883805Free PMC Article
Pasquet F, Kodjikian L, Mura F, Riviere S, Harroche J, Blanc AP, Chaix F, Oksenhendler E, Seve P; DEF-I study group
Ocul Immunol Inflamm 2012 Jun;20(3):163-70. Epub 2012 Apr 17 doi: 10.3109/09273948.2012.674612. PMID: 22506485

Clinical prediction guides

Chawla S, Barman P, Tyagi R, Jindal AK, Sharma S, Rawat A, Singh S
Front Immunol 2022;13:869466. Epub 2022 Jun 20 doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.869466. PMID: 35795667Free PMC Article
Thaventhiran JED, Lango Allen H, Burren OS, Rae W, Greene D, Staples E, Zhang Z, Farmery JHR, Simeoni I, Rivers E, Maimaris J, Penkett CJ, Stephens J, Deevi SVV, Sanchis-Juan A, Gleadall NS, Thomas MJ, Sargur RB, Gordins P, Baxendale HE, Brown M, Tuijnenburg P, Worth A, Hanson S, Linger RJ, Buckland MS, Rayner-Matthews PJ, Gilmour KC, Samarghitean C, Seneviratne SL, Sansom DM, Lynch AG, Megy K, Ellinghaus E, Ellinghaus D, Jorgensen SF, Karlsen TH, Stirrups KE, Cutler AJ, Kumararatne DS, Chandra A, Edgar JDM, Herwadkar A, Cooper N, Grigoriadou S, Huissoon AP, Goddard S, Jolles S, Schuetz C, Boschann F; Primary Immunodeficiency Consortium for the NIHR Bioresource, Lyons PA, Hurles ME, Savic S, Burns SO, Kuijpers TW, Turro E, Ouwehand WH, Thrasher AJ, Smith KGC
Nature 2020 Jul;583(7814):90-95. Epub 2020 May 6 doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2265-1. PMID: 32499645Free PMC Article
Lorenzini T, Fliegauf M, Klammer N, Frede N, Proietti M, Bulashevska A, Camacho-Ordonez N, Varjosalo M, Kinnunen M, de Vries E, van der Meer JWM, Ameratunga R, Roifman CM, Schejter YD, Kobbe R, Hautala T, Atschekzei F, Schmidt RE, Schröder C, Stepensky P, Shadur B, Pedroza LA, van der Flier M, Martínez-Gallo M, Gonzalez-Granado LI, Allende LM, Shcherbina A, Kuzmenko N, Zakharova V, Neves JF, Svec P, Fischer U, Ip W, Bartsch O, Barış S, Klein C, Geha R, Chou J, Alosaimi M, Weintraub L, Boztug K, Hirschmugl T, Dos Santos Vilela MM, Holzinger D, Seidl M, Lougaris V, Plebani A, Alsina L, Piquer-Gibert M, Deyà-Martínez A, Slade CA, Aghamohammadi A, Abolhassani H, Hammarström L, Kuismin O, Helminen M, Allen HL, Thaventhiran JE, Freeman AF, Cook M, Bakhtiar S, Christiansen M, Cunningham-Rundles C, Patel NC, Rae W, Niehues T, Brauer N, Syrjänen J, Seppänen MRJ, Burns SO, Tuijnenburg P, Kuijpers TW; NIHR BioResource, Warnatz K, Grimbacher B; NIHR BioResource
J Allergy Clin Immunol 2020 Oct;146(4):901-911. Epub 2020 Apr 9 doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2019.11.051. PMID: 32278790Free PMC Article
Hurst JR, Verma N, Lowe D, Baxendale HE, Jolles S, Kelleher P, Longhurst HJ, Patel SY, Renzoni EA, Sander CR, Avery GR, Babar JL, Buckland MS, Burns S, Egner W, Gompels MM, Gordins P, Haddock JA, Hart SP, Hayman GR, Herriot R, Hoyles RK, Huissoon AP, Jacob J, Nicholson AG, Rassl DM, Sargur RB, Savic S, Seneviratne SL, Sheaff M, Vaitla PM, Walters GI, Whitehouse JL, Wright PA, Condliffe AM
J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract 2017 Jul-Aug;5(4):938-945. Epub 2017 Mar 25 doi: 10.1016/j.jaip.2017.01.021. PMID: 28351785
Tzipori S
Adv Parasitol 1988;27:63-129. doi: 10.1016/s0065-308x(08)60353-x. PMID: 3289331Free PMC Article

Recent systematic reviews

Crider K, Williams J, Qi YP, Gutman J, Yeung L, Mai C, Finkelstain J, Mehta S, Pons-Duran C, Menéndez C, Moraleda C, Rogers L, Daniels K, Green P
Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2022 Feb 1;2(2022) doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD014217. PMID: 36321557Free PMC Article
Janssen LMA, van der Flier M, de Vries E
Front Immunol 2021;12:620709. Epub 2021 Mar 23 doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.620709. PMID: 33833753Free PMC Article
Rizvi FS, Zainaldain H, Rafiemanesh H, Jamee M, Hossein-Khannazer N, Hamedifar H, Sabzevari A, Yazdani R, Abolhassani H, Aghamohammadi A, Azizi G
Expert Rev Clin Immunol 2020 Dec;16(12):1227-1235. Epub 2020 Dec 7 doi: 10.1080/1744666X.2021.1850272. PMID: 33203275
Kiaee F, Azizi G, Rafiemanesh H, Zainaldain H, Sadaat Rizvi F, Alizadeh M, Jamee M, Mohammadi S, Habibi S, Sharifi L, Jadidi-Niaragh F, Haghi S, Yazdani R, Abolhassani H, Aghamohammadi A
Expert Rev Clin Immunol 2019 Oct;15(10):1105-1113. Epub 2019 Sep 15 doi: 10.1080/1744666X.2019.1658523. PMID: 31452405
Mazza JM, Lin SY
Int Forum Allergy Rhinol 2016 Oct;6(10):1029-1033. Epub 2016 May 17 doi: 10.1002/alr.21789. PMID: 27187624

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