Management of a patient with common variable immunodeficiency and hepatopathy
Bibliographic record
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Common variable Immunodeficiency (CVID) is a primary immunodeficiency disorder and the most common form of severe antibody deficiency. Both children and adults are affected and clinical manifestations vary widely. Often, CVID manifests with infections, autoimmune phenomena or chronic lung disease, but it also frequently affects the liver. The differential diagnoses of hepatopathies in CVID patients are diverse and the characteristics of CVID patients often make it difficult to determine the correct diagnosis. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the case of a 39-year-old patient with CVID and elevated liver enzymes, nausea and unintended weight loss, who was referred to our clinic with the suspected diagnose of autoimmune hepatitis or immunoglobulin-induced hepatopathy. Prior, the patient had undergone an extensive diagnostic work-up including liver biopsy but viral hepatitides had only been investigated serologically - with negative antibody results. We searched for viral nucleic acid by polymerase chain reaction and detected hepatitis E virus-RNA. Antiviral therapy was started and the patient recovered quickly. CONCLUSION: Hepatopathies in CVID patients are common with a broad spectrum of possible causes. While treating CVID patients, the distinct diagnostic and therapeutic requirements of the CVID patients should be closely considered and diagnosed by the appropriate measures.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".