Adam was diagnosed with SCID, a severe immune disease, through a PKU test shortly after his birth in 2019, according to multiple reports. The family had to quickly isolate to avoid exposing him to infections. Adam is now a completely healthy 6-year-old boy with no residual effects from his previous immune deficiency disease, multiple reports indicate.
A donor match for him was found a few weeks after his birth from another umbilical cord blood bank in Europe. The donor was a woman from Italy who had donated umbilical cord blood during her delivery nine years earlier, which had been stored in a cord blood bank there, according to multiple reports. 5-year pause, multiple reports indicate.
The bank is the only one in Sweden and one of 49 worldwide that stores stem cell-rich blood for donation to seriously ill children with dysfunctional blood or immune systems. After a planned cesarean section, blood is collected from the donor's placenta and umbilical cord and frozen until a recipient with the same tissue type is found. 5 years, and how many children have been treated by the reopened bank.