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Clinically, affected children present with oral/genital ulcers and life-threatening infections within the first 3 months of life. Without a bone marrow transplant, most die by 6 months of age.
Diagnosis
Diagnostic recommendations
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Therapeutic options
- Bone marrow transplantation is the only treatment of SCID. Other recommendations include intravenous gamma-globulin infusion, irradiation of all blood products, antibiotherapy.
- Severe combined immunodeficiency, T-B-, ORPHANET
- Severe combined immunodeficiency, eMedicine
- BMT for Severe Combined Immunodeficiencies