KROK 1 2021 – Question 62 · KROK (Medicine) · Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology
Examination of a patient, who for a long time was taking glucocorticoids, detected lymphopenia. How can the functional state of the patient’s immune system be characterized?
- A. Anaphylaxis
- B. Autoantigen tolerance
- C. Primary immunodeficiency
- D. Secondary immunodeficiency
- E. Congenital immunodeficiency
Hint
Glucocorticoids suppress lymphocyte proliferation and survival; consider whether an immune defect that appears after drug exposure in a healthy person is inborn or acquired.
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