A photo from open sources Surgeons will try to save one of the most young people in a world in which a biological bomb.
American Nick Smith needed the help of a surgeon – he an aneurysm of the artery through which blood enters brain. Complicated matter, Smith suffers rarest the type of primordial dwarfism found in only 100 people on the planet.
21-year-old Smith from Atlanta, Georgia, USA is 90 centimeters. Moreover, all his relatives are people high. So, the growth of his brothers Levi and Travis exceeds 180 centimeters. “I always make fun of Nick that Levi and I stole all of his growth genes, so he’s so small, “Mail quotes Online 18-year-old Travis, who emphasizes that, despite difference in height, Nick remains his older brother, opinion whom he respects a lot.
Of the 200 types of dwarfism that scientists have, primordial is the rarest. This is a genetic failure, whose nature has not yet been fully studied. In this form dwarfism, the human body has normal proportions, it only reduced compared to the bodies of healthy people. However the gene dwarfism in people with this diagnosis is often linked to genes that cause premature aging.
Nick Smith has not yet seen signs of decrepitation, however in the fall, doctors discovered he had a life-threatening form of aneurysm one of the cerebral arteries. The wall of the vessel with such a disease swollen and weakened, it can burst at any moment that will immediately lead to death.
Nick is being treated at Stanford University’s clinic state of California. Surgeons plan to use high-tech a new technique for treating aneurysm called endovascular winding. They will strengthen Nick’s artery from the inside platinum threads, wrapping them on a vessel as a reinforcing the grid. Material and probes with which to be conducted operation, doctors will enter the artery through an incision made in the inguinal area.
“Aneurysm is like a ticking bomb,” says Shelley Smith, mother Nika. – It does not bring physical pain to a person, and does not affect to everyday life, but to know that at any moment she can burst and kill you, scary. “Shelley believes that thanks small in stature, her son is like a child who never grow up, and this is a rare gift for any mom.
Eduard VORONTSOV
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