Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) describes an inherited genetic condition that affects a person’s immune system. It results in a type of immunodeficiency and causes people to be highly susceptible ...

Chronic granulomatous disease is an X-linked defect in the killing of certain bacteria by peripheral blood granulocytes and may be detected with the nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT) test. The rate of ...

Our own observations led us to believe that patients with granulomatous disease of the colon, with or without ileal involvement, did well after total colectomy and ileostomy. In contrast recurrence ...

GRANULOMA formation is one of the significant reaction patterns of the body in disease. Characterized by tubercles of closely packed epithelioid cells, granulomas are the basic alteration in such ...

Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is a rare genetic immunodeficiency associated with phagocyte function. It was first described in the 1950s. It is caused due to functional impairment in the NADPH ...