Adenosine deaminase deficiency

Adenosine deaminase deficiency
Overview
Adenosine deaminase (ADA) deficiency is an inherited disorder that damages the immune system and causes severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID).

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Adenosine deaminase deficiency
A person born with adenosine deaminase (ADA) deficiency lacks an important enzyme of their immune system. This means that infections are likely and can even be fatal.

Adenosine deaminase deficiency
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Severe Combined Immunodeficiency - symptoms, Definition, Description, Demographics, Causes and symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment, Prognosis, Prevention ...

ADA Deficiency: Adenosine deaminase deficiency is a condition which is inherited that results severe combined immunodeficiency disease.

Adenosine Deaminase Deficiency, Severe Combined Immunodeficiency with
Dysgammaglobulinemia, Janeway
Immunodeficiency Common, Variable, Unclassifiable
Hypogammaglobulinemia Transient of Infancy
IgA Deficiency, Selective ...

stem cell fails to differentiate into lymphocytes and granulocytes; Swiss-type agammaglobulinemia, in which the hematopoietic stem cell fails to differentiate into lymphocytes alone; and enzyme deficiency, such as adenosine deaminase deficiency, ...

See also: Deficiency, Severe combined immunodeficiency, Infections, Symptom, SCID