Exome seq revealed novel compound heterozygous variants in FARSA: P347L & R475Q - in a patient who initially presented neonatal-onset failure to thrive, liver dysfunction, and frequent respiratory infections.
Died at age 28-months of progressive hepatic and respiratory failure.
Great job in Dx and treating this infant by this team of 🧬disease-detectives from the
🇰🇷 'Korean Undiagnosed Disease Program,'
and Seoul National University,
though, sadly, the outcome was fatal.
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Expect a likely resurgence of vaccine-preventble pediatric infectious, communicable diseases - according to this study...measles, rubella, mumps, pertussis, polio, rotavirus...
Likely causes of this backslide in childhood vaccination:
▪️ global vaccine-"fatigue"
▪️ hyper-focused attention on one disease (🦠
SarsCov2), while virtually ignoring all others.
These auto-ABs are linked 🦠to:
1⃣ Primary Immunodeficiencies / "IEIs": susceptibility to certain infections
2⃣ Susceptibility to severe and fatal COVID-19
▪️ 💉vaxx ➕boost💉
▪️😷 mask on and up
▪️📏 practice strategic social-distancing
If you are immunodeficient or immunocompromised,
(👤LIKE ME) ... these 3⃣ things could well save your life.
"The patient was in a vegetative state when she was first admitted to hospital and received cell therapy as a last resort."
...she is now ready to attend school.
These results need to be replicated in additional patients, however initial results look extremely compelling.