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Fields condition, [1] also known as Fields' disease, [2] [3] is a neuromuscular disease that is considered the rarest medical condition in the world. It was named after Welsh identical twins Catherine and Kirstie Fields, who are two of only three people known to have been affected.
A rare disease is any disease that affects a small percentage of the population. In some parts of the world, the term orphan disease describes a rare disease whose rarity results in little or no funding or research for treatments, without financial incentives from governments or other agencies. Orphan drugs are medications targeting orphan ...
It is extraordinarily rare, with fewer than 100 people in the world having been diagnosed with the condition as of 2021. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] A person who has hyperthymesia is called a hyperthymesiac . [ 5 ]
The teenage Welsh twins have what is probably the world's rarest disease -- Fields. Imagine finding out that you have a disease that only a handful of people around the world have. Kirstie and ...
Ribose-5-phosphate isomerase deficiency (RPID) is a rare human disorder caused by mutations in ribose-5-phosphate isomerase, an enzyme of the pentose phosphate pathway.With only four known cases – all diagnosed between 1984 and 2019 – RPI deficiency is the second rarest disease, with Fields condition being the rarest, affecting two known individuals, Catherine and Kirstie Fields.
This man suffered from a rare genetic disorder that made bark-like warts grow on his skin for more than two decades. ... The condition's symptoms are extreme wart-like growths all over the body ...
Kuru is a rare, incurable, and fatal neurodegenerative disorder that was formerly common among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea. Kuru is a form of prion disease which leads to tremors and loss of coordination from neurodegeneration. The term kúru means “trembling” and comes from the Fore word kuria or guria ("to shake").
My dog Buster has the skin condition vitiligo. It causes depigmentation of the skin (and fur). These photos beautifully capture how vitiligo has made Buster even more unique: November 2021 ...