A student at New York experienced a rare disease that is only experienced by about 800 people around the world. The disease makes his muscles turn into bone.Difficult doctor heal because not many studies done to understand this disease.
Joey Suchanek (20 years old) is still active lecture recorded at Marist College, New York. It is suffering from a disease called Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressive (FOP), a rare disease that can not be cured and cause the connective tissue in the body turn into bone.
"My left arm at an angle of 90 degrees, harden and locked on the side of the body. My right arm is also at an angle of 90 degrees, but I can fold to gain face and unable to feed themselves despite meregangnya. During infancy, the bone grows closer to the ribs lock my arm until I grew older, "said Joey as dilansir CBS News.
According to Joey confession, there are no problems when he was born. Until one day, he suffered a bump on the head. Initially doctors suspect bump is cancer and elevate, but bumps appear again a few months later. Upon further inspection, it turns out, the lump is not cancer.
Because when the internet has not flaming, Joey's dad every night to go to the bookstore to find out her strange symptoms. Suspected the presence of rare disease, then Joey brought geneticist when she was 2 years old and was diagnosed suffering from FOP.
The disease affects growth and cause severe scoliosis disorder. Unbalanced hip and left leg grows shorter than the right leg. It also suffered from pain for 8 weeks until the bones stop growing. When this happens, Joey is not able to walk.
"Part of the most painful is swelling, swelling really intense.'s Really unexpected. Doctors can not do much., But they can estimate how long the symptoms will last," explains Joey.
Until now, there are two people in the world who are considered experts on the disease, namely dr Frederick S. Kaplan, head of the division of molecular medicine orthopedics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, and Dr. Eileen Shore, who is also from the University of Pennsylvania.
According to Dr. Kaplan, FOP is a rare and fatal disease affecting approximately 1 of only 2 million people. The entire FOP patients born with abnormalities bunion, that bump on the joint at the base of the thumb away. Foot is the last part in the growing embryo.
Newborn babies usually do not indicate a problem, but his parents could impeach the son has seen stiff or can not crawl. Around the age of 2 to 5 years, a painful swelling and look like tumors can appear suddenly. That is the response of the immune system that attacks the skeletal muscles, tendons and ligaments and finally destroy the network.
"Instead of forming scar tissue from muscle destruction, something in the body's immune system triggers the formation of stem cells that could potentially connect with nearby cartilage, changing cells into bone, muscle is not new," explains Dr. Kaplan.
Because very rare disease and will not be understood by doctors, Suchanek was ready to be the face of a campaign to raise money for research. He also decided to tell the condition of the internet community through social sites late Reddit Ask Me Anything program (AMA).
Sumber:
http://health.detik.com/read/2013/03/05/115422/2185961/763/penyakit-super-langka-membuat-otot-pemuda-ini-berubah-menjadi-tulang
http://www.apakabardunia.com/2013/03/ouch-penyakit-langka-otot-berubah-jadi.html
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