Immunological Emergency in Neonate: Case Report and Role of Early Screening

• Main Authors: Veronica Mugarab Samedi (Author), Amy Shafey (Author), Essa Al Awad (Author), Luis Murguia Favela (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc., 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Healthy looking newborns may have severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), and neonatologists frequently are the first physicians to encounter these patients. Physicians usually have a high index of suspicion for this condition in presence of certain risk factors (unexplained infants' deaths, c...