Apoptotic colopathy as a manifestation of Good's syndrome.

The case was a 44-year-old patient with four years of evolution of respiratory infections, fever, weight loss of 30 kg and chronic diarrhea with inconclusive colonoscopy studies, managed as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), with a history of thymomectomy four years previously. On physical examination, there was severe protein-calorie malnutrition, skin lesions compatible with herpes simplex infection and lower limb edema. Blood tests were requested when pancytopenia and hypoalbuminemia were negative for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Chest tomography showed a budding tree pattern and bronchiectasis, but SARS-CoV-2 was negative. A colonoscopy was performed, showing the presence of ulcers in the sigmoid colon with an infectious aspect vs IBD.