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
  »Tests for 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
  »Symptoms of SCID
  »Treatments for SCID

Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease: Related Diseases

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.

Read more about treatments for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease

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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