Prediction of Portal Hypertension in Patients With CVID (CVID-pHT)

Summary

Patients with CVID will be offered to participate in this observational trial during the routine annual visit in the outpatient clinic at the Center of chronic Immunodeficiency (CCI) of the University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany. Clinical and laboratory data at the time of presentation will be assessed. Additionally, parameters of abdominal ultrasound, duplex sonography of the liver and spleen, and liver and spleen stiffness at the time of presentation will be evaluated. If applicable, clinical and/or interventional parameters indicating clinically significant portal hypertension (i.e. presence of varices or portal-hypertensive gastropathy in esophago-gastroduodenoscopy, presence of ascites) within 12 months prior and after the index visit will be assessed. During the visit, serum/plasma samples and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) are collected and stored in an associated biobank.

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients with CVID

Exclusion Criteria:

* no written informed consent
* concomitant chronic liver disease (viral hepatitis, alcoholic liver disease, steatitic liver disease, hemochromatosis, primary biliary cholangitis, primary sclerosis cholangitis, M. Wilson, alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency)

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