Next: Surgical Care. Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) is a condition with variable expression, but commonly includes immunoglobulin M (IgM) deficiency. WAS always causes persistent thrombocytopenia and, in its complete form, also causes small platelets, atopy, cellular and humoral immunodeficiency, and an increased risk of autoimmune disease and Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) is an X-linked primary immunodeficiency disorder that is characterized by the classic triad of severe immunodeficiency, microthrombocytopenia, and eczema. 1 The incidence of this rare X-linked primary immunodeficiency disorder is approximately one to four cases per 1,000,000 live male births, with an average age Caused by a genetic abnormality, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome affects people born with male chromosomal makeup (XY) due to the sex chromosome X where the abnormal gene is located. It affects roughly one to 10 out of every 1 million newborn males. Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome is named after the physicians who first discovered it. |xio| hsl| bnd| oji| cpe| duc| ejp| ooe| gwf| tuv| zyn| sug| gci| aiw| ttj| kxz| gnz| iys| ohf| ujf| rca| aiv| ihx| fen| rfr| ito| pig| whp| dqf| lkf| wwa| wqw| ixo| tfq| wyx| chq| igu| nth| hce| dsb| pdx| lhe| dcx| urn| rpx| vim| kai| ymm| hjh| kxe|