Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease

Introduction: Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease

Description of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease

Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease (medical condition): Major failure of the immune system, usually genetic. See also SCID:
  »Introduction: SCID
  »Symptoms of SCID
  »Treatments for SCID

Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease as a Disease

Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease: Another name for SCID (or close medical condition association).
  »Introduction: SCID
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Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease: Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database: Primary Immune Deficiency, Immune disorders, Immune deficiency conditions, Genetic Disease

Causes of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease

Some of the causes of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease are included in the list below:

• Omenn syndrome
• X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency
• Reticular dysgenesis
• Bare lymphocyte syndrome type 2
• Leukocyte-common antigen deficiency

See full list of 6 causes of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease (SCID)

Symptoms of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease (SCID)

Some of the symptoms of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease incude:

• Recurrent infections - often serious and life-threatening
• Pneumonia
• Meningitis
• Sepsis
• Chickenpox

See full list of 37 symptoms of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease (SCID)

Treatments for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease (SCID)

Treatments for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease (SCID) include:

• Bone marrow transplant
• Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG)
• PEG-ADA injections - for ADA deficiency subtype.

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Treatment of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease: For more treatment information about Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease, see treatment of SCID (Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease)

Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease: Article Excerpts about SCID

Genes and Disease by the National Center for Biotechnology (Excerpt)

Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) represents a group of rare, sometimes fatal, congenital disorders characterized by little or no immune response. The defining feature of SCID, commonly known as "bubble boy" disease, is a defect in the specialized white blood cells (B- and T-lymphocytes) that defend us from infection by viruses, bacteria and fungi. (Source: Genes and Disease by the National Center for Biotechnology)

Primary Immune Deficiency, NIAID Fact Sheet: NIAID (Excerpt)

Approximately one in every million people develop SCID, a group of inherited disorders. People with SCID have severe abnormalities in both B and T cell immunity. (Source: excerpt from Primary Immune Deficiency, NIAID Fact Sheet: NIAID)

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