What does PI stand for?

Conventional therapy of primary immunodeficiency diseases.

There are more than 200 kinds of primary immunodeficiency diseases, according to the Immune Deficiency Foundation, and each strand of the disease shows itself in different ways.

Last month the Jeffrey Modell Foundation (JMF) had two reasons to celebrate: the organization which addresses Primary Immunodeficiency (PI) research and advocacy raised a record-breaking $2 million at its annual Spring Ahead Gala and the nonprofit--heavily supported by the real estate industry over the years--will establish a new research and diagnostic center right here in New York.

In conditions such as coeliac disease, cystic fibrosis, inflammatory bowel disease and primary immunodeficiency, other systemic manifestations provide clues to the necessity for referral and diagnostic investigations.

The Jeans for Genes Campaign is led by four partner charities: Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity, The Primary Immunodeficiency Association (PiA), The Society for Mucopolysaccharide Diseases (MPS), The Chronic Granulomatous Disorder (CGD) Research Trust.

Primary immunodeficiency disorders in Sweden: ases among children, 19741979.

As well as providing visitors with the chance to see, and buy, some of the plants raised at Coughton Court, the Rose Festival is also a fundraising event for the Primary Immunodeficiency Association.

Moreover, that same statement was not accompanied by the pertinent qualifying information from the PI regarding the risk of anaphylaxis in patients with antibodies to IgA or IgA deficiencies that are a component of an underlying primary immunodeficiency disease for which IGIV therapy is indicated.