Adenosine+Deminase+Deficiency-+Randy+Merced

Adenosine Deminase Deficiency is a rare disease. It malfunctions the immune system. It goes and takes out any white blood cells and leaves the body open to viruses bacteria and germs. It someone catches the flu they cant get rid of it as easily as people with out Adenosine Deminase Deficiency.
 * Adenosine Deminase Deficiency **
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Adenosine Deminase Deficiency is a disease that is not sex-linked. Both parents have to have the disease. Adenosine Deminase Deficiency is autosomal and a recessive disorder. Both parents need to pass on the disease in order for the child to get it.
 * Inheritance **

Due to the fact Adenosine Deminase Deficiency effects the immune system, people are prone to getting sick much quicker than people with out Adenosine Deminase Deficiency. Sadly most babies die within a few months that have Adenosine Deminase Deficiency.
 * Symptoms **

Your doctor can tell is you have the disease by taking a small sample from the amniotic sac. That is were the baby develops. Another way to tell is if a doctor checks the enzyme levels from a fetal sample from the mother’s umbilical cord.
 * Diagnosis **

Most like other disease there is no real cure for Adenosine Deminase Deficiency. But doctors have been finding ways to restore the immune system. Bone marrow transplants, transfusions of red blood cells, enzyme replacement therapy, and gene therapy.
 * Treatment **

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">[|www.primaryimmune.org] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">ipopi.org **