progeria
...osome. This disease is rare and only affects one in four to eight million children. There are 35 known cases worldwide of children suffering from progeria. Little reserch has beed done to the search for the cause, effective treatment and cure of progeria. The average age of death is sixteen, but survivors until twentysix years have been recorded in both sexes. The genetic transmission if any is unknown. Hutchinson Gilford progeria was first discovered in 1886 by Jonathan Hutchinson. He documented clinical features of a boy six years old who had absence of hair and atrophy. The syndrome also has skeletal effects. There is a soft spot at the front of the skull, and children with it are short, thin collarbones, narrow sholders, and long bones in arms and legs unusually thin and fragile particularly the upper body bones. Children as young as five may get widspread thickening and loss of elasticity of artery walls. Such changes most evedent in particular blood vessles, such as the arteries that transport rich oxegenated blood to the muscles and the major artery of the body the aorta. Additional findings may be enlargement of the heart and abnormal heart sou...