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How would you work up and manage persistent lymphopenia in an asymptomatic patient?

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Pediatric Hematology/Oncology · UMass Chan Medical School
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Simple answer: refer to an immunologist, as this degree of lymphopenia is quite likely to represent a serious immunodeficiency. I would also send a next generation sequencing panel of immunodeficiency/immunoregulatory genes to be in process while awaiting the immunology consultation.

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