The man, 44-year-old Mahmoud Taluli, reported on national radio that he had undergone four operations in the past two years to eliminate a large area of wood-like wounds on his hands. Before the operation, Tarulli had been unable to use his hands for more than ten years.
"After years of pain and loneliness, I can finally lead a normal life," Tarulli told NPR. I can play with my children. I can go to family activities. I no longer need to cover my hands in public.
Taluli suffers from a rare genetic disease called verrucous epidermal hyperplasia, which makes him more susceptible to skin infection caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) than ordinary people. According to a report published in the journal Disease Marker on 20 10, people with this disease.
There is something wrong with the patient's immune system and he can't fight hpv normally. This is a group of viruses consisting of more than 150 related viruses. In healthy people, human papillomavirus usually does not cause symptoms, but in people with verrucous epidermal dysplasia, infection can lead to the formation of verrucous lesions. According to the report of 20 10, about 50% patients will develop into malignant tumors.
There is no cure or standard treatment at present. According to a report by the National Radio, Tarulli's treatment includes doctors deeply cutting the skin to remove thousands of lesions. According to NBC, this kind of tissue resection usually requires skin transplantation from other parts of his body to help heal.
This treatment has allowed Tarulli to use his hand again, but this is not a treatment-new growth continues to appear, and Tarulli will need a fifth operation this summer to remove these new injuries and some scar tissue. Nevertheless, this therapy has achieved great success in improving Taluli's hand function.
"We don't know if there is anything feasible in his hand, but thank God it worked." Dr. Michael Chernofsky, a hand and microvascular surgeon at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, treated Taluli. NPR reported that doctors hope to finally develop a treatment to help Taluli's immune system better fight against human papillomavirus, while the treatment effect of another person with verrucous epidermal dysplasia is not ideal. According to Fox News Channel, last month, Bangladeshi Abu Ba Candar asked the doctor to amputate his hand because it was very painful. Although Ba Candar has undergone more than 20 operations to remove skin damage, its growth seems to be worse than before. Cernovsky told NPR that amputation is usually not a good idea, because patients may still experience the pain caused by nerve amputation.
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