Assessment of the first presentations of common variable immunodeficiency in a large cohort of patients.

Background: Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID) is a primary immunodeficiency syndrome resulting in recurrent infections, autoimmunity, and granulomatous manifestations. Methods and materials: This retrospective study was conducted on an Iranian national registry of immunodeficient patients from 2010 to 2021. The frequency of first presentations of CVID and its association with sex, age of onset, and family history of CVID was evaluated. Results: A total of 383 patients entered the study, 164 of whom were female, and the rest were male. The mean age of the patients was 25.3 ± 14.5 years. The most frequent first presentations of CVID were pneumonia (36.8%) and diarrhea (19.1%). Patient sex, age of onset, and family history did not make significant differences in first presentations of this disease. Conclusion: pneumonia is the most common first presentation of CVID. Family history of CVID, the age of symptom onset, and sex made no differences in the first presentations of CVID. Highlights: Pneumonia is the most common first presentation of CVID. Female patients developed CVID at a younger age than male patients. Sex is not a differentiating factor in first presentations of CVID. Family history does not change the first presentations of CVID. Adulthood-onset and childhood-onset CVID were not different regarding the first presentations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]