Thomas Issekutz

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Thomas Issekutz Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation Profile

Research Interests

Drs. Beata Derfalvi and Thomas Issekutz provide clinical immunology care to children throughout the Maritimes through an inpatient attending and consultation service and a weekly immunology outpatient clinic. The services focus on patients with chronic immunological conditions involving primary and secondary immunodeficiencies and autoimmune processes.

They also care for numerous patients with disorders that require ongoing therapy and monitoring, and frequently require investigational drug therapy, including:

• hypogammaglobulinemia

• chronic granulomatous disease

• rarer immunodeficiences

• other immunohematological disorders

They follow between fifteen and twenty bone marrow transplant recipients to assess immunologic reconstitution, and we offer regular consultations for common problems such as recurrent infections, hypersensitivity and extreme atopic conditions.

They provide specialized diagnostic immunology testing, which isn’t available anywhere else in the Maritimes. However, patients with severe immune deficiencies requiring complex referral for bone marrow transplantation are generally transported to other Canadian or American centres.