Clinical and Laboratory Evaluation of the Child with Suspected Immunodeficiency
E. Richard Stiehm MD1
1 Division of Immunology/Allergy, Department of Pediatrics, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90024
Historical, clinical, and laboratory data should enable the pediatrician to suspect and then establish a diagnosis of immunodeficiency in children with too many infections. Although certain rare immunologic syndromes require a sophisticated laboratory analysis, office and hospital laboratory tests are often available to make (or exclude) a presumptive or exact diagnosis of most of the immunodeficiency syndromes.