Severe combined immunodeficiency
5 month old female baby presented with cough followed by respiratory distress and not gaining weight. There was no history of fever, diarrhea or recurrent infections. Her elder brother died due to respiratory illness at the age of 8 months.
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Genetics of severe combined immunodeficiency
Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) is an inherited group of rare, life-threatening disorders due to the defect in T cell development and function.
Rajni Kumrah+8 more
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Severe Combined Immunodeficiency—Classification, Microbiology Association and Treatment [PDF]
Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) is a primary inherited immunodeficiency disease that presents before the age of three months and can be fatal.
Angel A. Justiz-Vaillant+4 more
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A novel splice donor mutation in DCLRE1C caused atypical severe combined immunodeficiency in a patient with colon lymphoma: case report and literature review [PDF]
IntroductionHypomorphic mutations of DCLRE1C cause an atypical severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-related colon lymphoma is a rare complication.Case presentationA teenage boy presented with colon EBV-related colon ...
Xiaoqing Zhang+7 more
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Screening for severe combined immunodeficiency in neonates
Brian T Kelly,1 Jonathan S Tam,1 James W Verbsky,1,2 John M Routes1,2 1Department of Pediatrics, 2Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA Abstract: Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) is a ...
Kelly BT, Tam JS, Verbsky JW, Routes JM
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Neonatal screening for severe combined immunodeficiency in Brazil,
Objective To apply, in Brazil, the T-cell receptor excision circles (TRECs) quantification technique using real-time polymerase chain reaction in newborn screening for severe combined immunodeficiency and assess the feasibility of implementing it on a ...
Marilia Pyles Patto Kanegae+13 more
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Diagnosis of severe combined immunodeficiency [PDF]
Early diagnosis of severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) is important to enable prompt referral to a supraregional centre for bone marrow transplantation before the occurrence of end organ damage secondary to infective complications. This review outlines clinical, microbiological, and immunopathological clues that aid the diagnosis of SCID and ...
Andrew R. Gennery
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Case of T-B+NK+ X-Linked Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease [PDF]
We report a case of T-B+NK+ severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID) caused by IL2RG gene mutation (NM_000206.3 [IL2RG]: c.925-2A > G). The patient, a 2-month-old male, experienced multiple infections and decreased white blood cells in the early ...
Wenya Qian, Min Wu, Guanling Wang
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Severe combined immunodeficiency: improved survival leading to detection of underlying liver disease [PDF]
Background Adenosine deaminase deficiency (ADA) is an autosomal recessive disorder leading to severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID). It is characterized patho-physiologically by intracellular accumulation of toxic products affecting lymphocytes.
Anusha Vittal+9 more
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BENEFITS, CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS OF NEWBORN SCREENING FOR PRIMARY IMMUNODEFICIENCY
More than ten years of implementation of newborn screening for severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) using a T-cell receptor excision circle (TREC) and in recent years the TREC/ kappa-deleting recombination excision circle (KREC) assay have shown a ...
Oksana BOYARCHUK+3 more
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