Comprehensive Care for Children with Immune Deficiencies
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Meet William and read about his remarkable fight against a rare immune deficiency disorder.
When Hannah was diagnosed with Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), her family came to Cincinnati Children's for world class care.
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The Immune Deficiency and Histiocytosis Program within the Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Immune Deficiency at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center offers a unique combination of expert medical care, state-of-the-art testing capabilities and extensive research for children with immune deficiencies. Our team takes a comprehensive approach, working together to ensure that patients receive the most effective treatment and follow-up care possible.
The program director, Alexandra (Lisa) H. Filipovich, MD, is recognized internationally for her contributions to patient care and research in this very specialized area of medicine.
Expertise in Treating Rare Disorders
The immune deficiency and histiocytosis team at Cincinnati Children’s treats patients with more than 80 different kinds of immune deficiency and histiocytic disorders. Our physicians have developed treatment regimens that improve survival and are now the international standard of care. These specialists manage each stage of patient care, from immunologic testing to bone marrow transplant, if needed.
These diseases are rare, but our specialists have extensive experience in their diagnosis and management.
Among the immune deficiencies and histiocytic disorders they diagnose and treat are:
- ALPS (Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative Syndrome)
- HIGM2-HIGM4 (Autosomal Recessive Hyper IgM Syndrome)
- CGD (Chronic Granulomatous Disease)
- CVID (Common Variable Immunodeficiency)
- HLH (Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis)
- Hypogammaglobulinemia
- IPEX (Immune Dysregulation, Polyendocrinopathy, Enteritis, X-linked)
- LCH (Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis)
- SCIDs (Severe Combined Immunodeficiencies)
- XLA (X-linked Agammaglobulinemia)
- HIM (X-linked-hyper IgM syndrome / X-linked CD40 Ligand Deficiency)
- XLP (X-linked Lymphoproliferative Syndrome)
- NEMO (X-linked NFkB Essential Modifier Deficiency)
- WAS (Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome)
