Severe combined immunodeficiency

Introduction: Severe combined immunodeficiency

Description of Severe combined immunodeficiency

Severe combined immunodeficiency (medical condition): Major failure of the immune system, usually genetic....more »

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Severe combined immunodeficiency: group of rare congenital disorders characterized by impairment of both humoral and cell-mediated immunity, leukopenia, and low or absent antibody levels; it is inherited as an X-linked or autosomal recessive defect; about half of the patients with autosomal recessive SCID are deficient in the enzyme adenosine deaminase.
Source: CRISP

Severe combined immunodeficiency: Group of rare congenital disorders characterized by impairment of both humoral and cell-mediated immunity, leukopenia, and low or absent antibody levels. It is inherited as an X-linked or autosomal recessive defect. Mutations occurring in many different genes cause human SCID.
Source: MeSH 2007

Severe combined immunodeficiency: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Severe combined immunodeficiency:

• Combined immunodeficiency
• Combined immunodeficiency syndrome
• Immunodeficiency
• Immunodeficiency disease
• Immunodeficiency disorder
• Immunodeficiency syndrome
• Group
• Congenital
• Congenital disease
• Congenital disorder

Severe combined immunodeficiency: Rare Disease

Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Severe combined immunodeficiency is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This means that Severe combined immunodeficiency, or a subtype of Severe combined immunodeficiency, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Severe combined immunodeficiency as a Disease

Severe combined immunodeficiency: Another name for SCID (or close medical condition association).
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Severe combined immunodeficiency: Related Diseases

Severe combined immunodeficiency: Severe combined immunodeficiency 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
• Immune system conditions

Causes of Severe combined immunodeficiency

Some of the causes of Severe combined immunodeficiency 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 (SCID)

Symptoms of Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)

Some of the symptoms of Severe combined immunodeficiency incude:

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

See full list of 35 symptoms of Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)

Treatments for Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)

Treatments for Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) include:

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

Read more about treatments for Severe combined immunodeficiency

Treatment of Severe combined immunodeficiency: For more treatment information about Severe combined immunodeficiency, see treatment of SCID (Severe combined immunodeficiency)

Severe combined immunodeficiency: 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...(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. ... (Source: excerpt from Primary Immune Deficiency, NIAID Fact Sheet: NIAID)

Severe combined immunodeficiency: Related Disease Topics

These medical disease topics may be related to Severe combined immunodeficiency:

• T-cell dysfunction
• B-cell dysfunction
• graft versus host disease
• GVHD
• graft-vs-host disease
• severe infection
• Swiss-type agammaglobulinemia
• Janus-associated kinase 3 deficiency
• JAK3 deficiency
• adenosine deaminase deficiency
• ADA deficiency

Terms associated with Severe combined immunodeficiency:

Terms Similar to Severe combined immunodeficiency:

• Agammaglobulinemia, Swiss type
• Bubble boy disease
• SCID
• SCID1
• Severe combined immunodeficiency due to adenosine deaminase deficiency
• Severe combined immunodeficiency, alymphocytotic type

Source - NIH

Broader terms for Severe combined immunodeficiency

• inborn immunodeficiency

Source - CRISP

The term Severe combined immunodeficiency can be used for:

• adenosine deaminase deficiency
• bare lymphocyte syndrome
• combined T and B cell inborn immunodeficiency
• reticular dysgenesis

Source: CRISP

Other terms that may be related to Severe combined immunodeficiency:

• adenosine deaminase

Source: CRISP

The description of Severe combined immunodeficiency may also be used for the following terms:

• SCID

Source: CRISP

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