Treatment
Treatments include:
- bone marrow transplant
- gene therapy
- ADA enzyme in PEG vehicle
On September 14, 1990, the first gene therapy to combat this disease was performed by Dr. W. French Anderson on a four year old girl, Ashanti DeSilva, at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A.
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