Mackenzie Casella was a much-loved baby girl who didn’t make it to her first birthday after being diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).
For baby Mackenzie, the diagnosis came too late but today Sydney scientists have released their world-first findings into the treatment of the genetic condition at Westmead Hospital.
“When we asked what that meant we were told it was a terminal diagnosis and she would likely pass away before she was eight months old,” Mackenzie’s mum Rachael Casella said.
