Good's syndrome with diffuse panbronchiolitis as the prominent manifestation: A case and literature review

• Published in: Respirology case reports Vol. 9; no. 12; pp. e0873 - n/a
• Main Authors: Luo, Tian, Wang, Lile, Fu, Daiyan, Hu, Ruicheng, Kong, Chunchu, Chen, Yunrong, Li, Xi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.12.2021; John Wiley & Sons, Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: Antibodies; Antigens; Bacterial infections; Blood; Case Report; Case Reports; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Cold; diffuse panbronchiolitis; Good's syndrome; Immune system; Immunoglobulins; Infections; Inflammatory diseases; Laboratories; Literature reviews; Lungs; Lymphocytes; Medical imaging; Oxygen saturation; Patients; Pneumonia; Proteins; Sinuses; thymoma; Veins & arteries; thymoma; Good's syndrome; diffuse panbronchiolitis
• ISSN: 2051-3380; 2051-3380
• DOI: 10.1002/rcr2.873

Good's syndrome (GS) is characterized by thymoma combined with adult‐onset immunodeficiency. Diffuse panbronchiolitis (DPB) is a chronic inflammatory airway disease, which predominantly affects East Asians. Japanese scholars have reported extensively about GS combined with DPB or DPB‐like pulmonary manifestation. However, such reports are rare in China. We report here a case of GS in China with DPB as the prominent manifestation and carry out a literature review accordingly. Our review indicates that in adults with DPB‐like clinical manifestations, thymic lesions should be excluded and related immune function tests should be performed to exclude GS to avoid missed diagnosis and misdiagnosis. We report here a case of Good's syndrome (GS) with diffuse panbronchiolitis (DPB) as the prominent manifestation and carry out a literature review accordingly. Japanese scholars have reported extensively about GS combined with DPB or DPB‐like pulmonary manifestation. However, such reports are rare in China; hence, the present report might help improve the understanding and diagnosis of such cases.