Progeria (del griego geras , "vejez") es una enfermedad genética de la infancia extremely rare, characterized by a sudden and premature aging. Is estimated to affect one in 8 million newborns. Progeria can affect different organs and tissues: bone, muscle, skin, subcutaneous tissue and vessels.
The most severe form of the disease is called Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome, named in honor of Jonathan Hutchinson, who first described it in 1886 and Hastings Gilford who did different studies on its development and characteristics in 1904.Clinical
- Low height
- dry and wrinkled skin
- premature baldness
- Canas childhood
- Eyes Skull
- prominent large
- cranial veins protruding
- No eyebrows and eyelashes
- large nose and a beak
- retracted
- Chin Heart problems
- narrow chest, with ribs marked
- Tips Thin and skeletal
- Narrowing of coronary arteries
- large and stiff joints
- spots on the skin similar to those of old age on the wrong metabolism of melanin
- Presence degenerative diseases like arthritis , typical of old age
- natural death by age 13.
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