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Showing posts with label Conditions and Diseases. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conditions and Diseases. Show all posts

15 August 2010

WHY I M 13...

In the 13 years old, has seen the first 50 Zhala Ha Cihuoenha Ci Huoen, who is from Rotherham, England, suffering from a rare hereditary disease known as metabolic disorder. The disease will lead to the support of adipose tissue, skin and even collapse, while the continued growth of the skin, often at an alarming rate. Only about 2,000 people in the world, is said to condition, but there is no known treatment. The impact of the disease has caused many problems and discomfort Hartshorn.
  

Unfortunately, lipid metabolism disorder is a family of Hartshorn: Zara's mother, Tracy, have the same genetic disease, making two Zara brothers and sisters. However, the impact of lipodystrophy, particularly evident in Prescott in 13, she looks older than her 21-year-old sister, Jolene.

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09 August 2010

Six-year-old girl with three hearts


At the age of six, Amy Ferguson is already on her third heart. She lost the first to a rare condition at the age of two and her body rejected the replacement, leading to a second transplant.  Several times she proved doctors wrong when they said they did not expect her to live.

Now she is in training for her school sports day next week - and determined to do well.
'After everything’s she’s been through she’s still a happy girl who just wants to get on with life,’ said her mother Veronica, 39. Amy fell ill in 2006 and was expected to die within 24 hours. Doctors diagnosed an infection of the aorta which was destroying her heart.

Battling through: Amy after her second heart transplant operation

She received a transplant at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. But, despite anti-rejection drugs her body would not accept the organ and two years later she was back in the same hospital, where her mother was told she needed another transplant. Despite severe complications, the nine-hour operation was a success and last week Amy returned to school in Dublin.  

To treat thousands of very sick children each year, Great Ormond Street Hospital needs to raise £50million annually from donations, over and above any funding it receives from the NHS.

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