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Abstract
A patient with GATA2 deficiency developed corticosteroid-responsive sterile granulomatous lung disease despite monocytopenia. The presence of B-lymphopenia, autoimmunity, an elevated level of serum B-cell–activating factor, and pulmonary plasma cell infiltration, which together suggested an underlying mechanism similar to that of combined variable immunodeficiency lung disease.