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2016 year, a German mother named when she accepted an unprecedented period of pregnancy. The treatment allowed her twins to be tortured from a rare recessive disease after birth. The treatment case was published in April 25th in the international top medical journal, new England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
according to MIT Technology Review, the treatment is a German clinic dedicated to rare genetic skin diseases, which belongs to the University of Langen - Nuremberg, Germany, El. The disease they attack is called X - linked hypoperspirating ectodermal dysplasia (SLHED), and the patients with the disease have become apex of the malformation of the incisor and have no sweating function. The crux of this anomaly is the lack of a special protein that can produce sweat glands in these patients,
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goes back to a clinical trial that the treatment team had previously participated in to study the efficacy of protein replacement therapy in SLHED children. However, protein drugs had no effect on children at that time. The clinical trial was subsequently abandoned, and Edimer Pharmaceuticals, a producer of joint drugs, was also closed.
Corinna's brave attempt at this treatment stems from its previous painful experience. Before the twins, she also had a son, also suffering from such a bad recessive disease. But it was not until her son was 2 years old that she found the cause.
"he kept crying, because he was too hot." Corinna recollections. Children with this rare genetic disease learn how to take care of themselves as they grow older. They usually lie on a cold tile floor or soak themselves in cold water.