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The curious case of city's missing Progeria patients
Updated On: 07 December, 2009 07:07 AM IST | | Alisha Coelho
Of the 2 recorded cases of the disease in Mumbai, both patients and families disappeared during treatment
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Of the 2 recorded cases of the disease in Mumbai, both patients and families disappeared during treatment
Even while makers of the film Paa insist that it isn't about the illness, doctors who have had the very rare chance of attending to progeria patients are hopeful it will help patients suffering from this debilitating condition.
Of the two recorded cases of progeria at Mumbai hospitals JJ and KEM both patients and their families vanished soon after the disease was diagnosed.
Associate professor Yogita Patil still remembers the day when a 13-year-old boy was brought into the anesthesiology department of KEM Hospital in 2007.
"He had nine teeth, wrinkled skin and his hair was falling out in clumps.
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