LabQ 2022 Clinical Laboratory: Clinical Immunology Exercise  

Faculty/Authors

ABIGAIL LANG, MD; ELISA OCHFELD, MD; AISHA AHMED, MD; AMER KHOJAH, MD 
DIVISION OF ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
ANN AND ROBERT H. LURIE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO
DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRICS NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 

KAI LEE YAP, PHD; AARUNI KHANOLKAR, MBBS, PHD
DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY
ANN AND ROBERT H. LURIE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO
DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY  

Chicago, Illinois 

CMLE Credit: 2.0
Estimated Completion Time: 2 hour
Format: Online Educational Activity and Post Exam

Instructions

To claim CMLE credit for the exercise, do the following:

1. Review the Technical Considerations.
2. Click Go to Course to view an overview of the modules in this course.
3. Click Access to begin the course.
4. Review the Educational Activity.
5. Complete and submit the Post Exam.
6. Submit the course Evaluation to register your credit.

Faculty Disclosures​
The faculty have no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.

Technical Considerations

Release Date: 05/27/2022 
Review Date:
Expiration Date: 12/31/2024 

• recognize common clinical features of severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID);  

• discuss the utility of newborn screening (NBS) for SCID; 

• describe the laboratory testing needed to follow up abnormal NBS results for SCID; 

• identify common phenotypic and laboratory findings associated with atypical forms of SCID, including Omenn syndrome and leaky forms of SCID; and 

• discuss common genetic variants associated with different immunophenotypes of SCID.