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Article Date: 10/05/2009

Schneider Children's Hospital Announces Opening of Jeffrey Modell Diagnostic Center
Schneider Children’s Hospital announces the opening of Jeffrey Modell Diagnostic Center for Primary Immunodeficiencies (PI) at Schneider Children’s Hospital (SCH). The Jeffrey Modell Diagnostic Center – the only one in the New York metropolitan area -- is one of more than 55 worldwide, spread over six continents that focus on the diagnosis, care and treatment of patients suffering with PI, an umbrella term for more than 150 diseases caused by an immune system that fails to function properly.

PI affects males and females of all ages, but the most severe forms are frequently detected in childhood. PI often can present in the form of common illnesses such as sinus infections, pneumonia, ear infections and bronchitis. For this reason, families and doctors are often unaware that the troubling conditions that they are dealing with are actually rooted in a defect in the immune system, and may treat the symptoms rather than addressing the underlying cause. Failure to diagnosis and treat PI can lead to serious chronic illness, permanent organ damage or even death.

“The designation of the Immunology Laboratory as a Jeffrey Modell Diagnostic Center in the Feinstein Institute, and the large patient population with PI in the hospital, will enable us to better provide educational and diagnostic support for children and adults with these diseases, their families, and their health care providers,” said Vincent Bonagura, MD, chief of Allergy and Immunonology at SCH, and director of the new Jeffrey Modell Diagnostic Center at SCH and The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. The Center, he said, will ensure better awareness of PI in the community, early diagnosis to prevent the associated morbidity and mortality linked to the failure of recognizing PI early, and more rapid treatment of patients who suffer from these rare diseases of the immune system."

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