Bubble Baby Syndrome
Recently, a girl from Karnataka, suffering from Bubble baby syndrome underwent a groundbreaking bone marrow transplant, becoming the youngest recipient of such a procedure from an unrelated donor.
About the Syndrome
- It is also called Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) and Swiss-type agammaglobulinemia.
- It is a rare genetic disorder where babies are born without an immune system, leaving them susceptible to life-threatening infections.
- Genetic defects result in a deficiency of T cells and B cells, crucial for the immune system.
- A child with SCID can't produce T cells, doesn't have working B cells (because there are no T cells for them to work with) ....
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