A 47-year-old wheelchair-bound teacher suffers from a disease so rare it has no name. At the same time, for a long time, doctors believed that all the causes of malaise were in the patient’s head.
A resident of British Cardiff, 47-year-old Debbie Schwartz visited doctors all her childhood in various medical centers from Newcastle to London, but she was told that her ailment was invented. Despite the deterioration of vision, speech and hearing, the woman received a master's degree in biochemistry and in her early 20s began to teach the natural sciences. But a few years later, she suddenly lost consciousness and spent 10 months in the hospital.
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Since then, she was unable to stand on her feet and spent the next two decades in a wheelchair. Over the years, she has been partially diagnosed with four separate rare conditions, none of which fully explain her symptoms. She is now one of the first patients in the UK's only clinic that specializes in unnamed diseases. Here she hopes to establish the correct diagnosis once and for all.
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The name of the clinic stands for “Syndrome without a name”. It was opened at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. This clinic can be visited by adults and children with a doctor's referral if modern medicine is not able to identify the cause of the disease. It is possible that the woman has a mitochondrial disorder, in which the mitochondria in the cells do not produce enough energy or do not work at all. (READ MORE)
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