La Revue de médecine interne
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Common variable immunodeficiency disorders (CVID) are a heterogeneous group of conditions with hypogammaglobulinemia as the common denominator. These are the most common symptomatic primary immunodeficiency disorder in adults. Two different clinical forms are described: one group only develops infections, while a second includes (sometimes without infections, at least at the onset of disease course) a variety of non-infectious autoimmune, inflammatory, granulomatous and/or lymphoproliferative manifestations, sometimes revealing the disease and often observed in Internal Medicine. ⋯ The recent use of new sequencing techniques makes it possible to better genetically define CVID. The identification of such a genetic disease makes it possible to treat pathophysiologically, in particular autoimmune and lymphoproliferative complications, with targeted treatments, sometimes used in other diseases. Determining a genetic disease in these patients also makes it possible to provide appropriate genetic counseling, and therefore to monitor mutated individuals, symptomatic or not.