Autoimmunity and immunodeficiency at the crossroad: autoimmune disorders as the presenting feature of selective IgM deficiency

Abstract

Selective immunoglobulin M deficiency (sIgMD) is an immunodeficiency with undefined pathogenesis and commonly presenting with recurrent infections.1The European Society for Immunodeficiencies Registry defines sIgMD as a serum IgM level repeatedly below 2 SD of normal with normal levels of serum IgA, IgG and IgG subclasses, normal vaccination responses, absence of T-cell defects and absence of causative external factors. Rarely it can also be associated with autoimmune diseases.2–7Here we describe a patient with primary sIgMD; who presented with multiple autoimmune diseases without a history of recurrent infections and we provide a short literature review on sIgMD and autoimmune diseases.