X-Linked Severe Combined Immunodeficiency and Hepatoblastoma: A Case Report and Review of Literature

J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2018 Aug;40(6):e348-e349. doi: 10.1097/MPH.0000000000001133.

Abstract

Severe combined immunodeficiency is an inherited disease with profoundly defective T cells, B cells, and natural killer cells. X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency is the most common form. In this report, we describe a 4-month-old male infant who was admitted to our hospital with progressive breathlessness and abdominal mass. He was diagnosed with hepatoblastoma and presented a pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia at the beginning of chemotherapy. Definitive diagnosis of X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency was established by DNA analysis of the interleukin 2 receptor gamma chain gene. This case is the first report which describes an X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency patient with hepatoblastoma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Hepatoblastoma* / diagnosis
  • Hepatoblastoma* / drug therapy
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Liver Neoplasms* / diagnosis
  • Liver Neoplasms* / drug therapy
  • Male
  • Pneumocystis carinii*
  • Pneumonia, Pneumocystis* / diagnosis
  • Pneumonia, Pneumocystis* / drug therapy
  • X-Linked Combined Immunodeficiency Diseases* / diagnosis
  • X-Linked Combined Immunodeficiency Diseases* / drug therapy