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Understanding Severe Combined Immune Deficiency Syndrome (SCIDS)

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Severe Combined Immune Deficiency Syndrome (SCIDS) is a primary immune deficiency disorder where affected individuals cannot effectively fight infections. Approximately 1 in a million births result in SCIDS, leading to severe symptoms like chronic diarrhea, recurrent pneumonia, and profuse oral candidiasis. Early diagnosis usually occurs when infants experience serious infections. While there is no cure, aggressive antibiotic treatment and bone marrow transplants show significant success, with a 95% survival rate for treated children. Genetic testing is also available to identify carriers of this disorder.

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Understanding Severe Combined Immune Deficiency Syndrome (SCIDS)

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  1. SCIDS (Severe Combined Immune Deficiency Syndrome)

  2. Type of Disorder • Primary immune deficiency • Cannot fight disease

  3. Chromosome graphic

  4. Statistics • Approxamatly 1 in every million people born develop SCIDS

  5. Symptoms/Effects • Chronic Diarrhea • Recurrent Pneumonia • Profuse oral candidiasis

  6. Diagnosis • SCIDS is diagnosed when infants take on serious infections • Trying to institute Newborn screening test

  7. prognosis • There is no cure for SCIDS nearly all patients left untreated die before age two

  8. Treatment • SCIDS should be treated aggressively with antibiotics for any infection • Bone marrow transplants are effective for most types of SCIDS • 95% of kids treated with bone marrow transplants survive

  9. Genetic Testing • There is available testing to see if you are a carrier of SCIDS

  10. David Vetter • David vetter suffered from SCIDS, doctors put him in a protective bubble thinking it would only be till they could perform a bone marrow transplant on his sister, only to find out his sister wasn’t a match. He had to stay in the bubble till he died at the age of 12.

  11. http://www.scid.net/about.htm • Done by Rocky Quarto

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