Usage of Spirometry in Managing IgG Therapy in CVID with Airway Disease

Description

The key finding of the published retrospective study was that common variable immune deficiency (CVID) patients with moderate, presumed reversible, obstruction on stable, therapeutic doses of IgG who exhibited a decline in lung function from one clinic visit to the next responded to an increased dose of IgG with an improvement in lung function as assessed by spirometry.

The investigators now wish perform a clinical trial to assess whether primary antibody deficiency patients receiving IGRT who fit in this range of obstruction, i.e. an FEF25-75% that is 50-80% of predicted, will demonstrate an increase in lung function, as assessed by spirometry, after increasing the dose of IGRT. The presumption is that obstruction at this level is most likely due to the effects of subclinical infections that can be reduced or avoided by increasing the amount of gammaglobulin received by the patients.