The Italian scientist Sammy Bassoknown for bringing visibility and studying his own illness, Hutchinson-Gilford programwho died at the age of 28 on the night of October 5th.
According to the criteria of
His death gave a lot to talk about, since there are people who do not know the causes and symptoms of his condition, which causes the acceleration of aging in children, after the first two years of life are over.
Heart problems or strokes are the ultimate causes of death in most children with progeria.
According to the specialist health media Mayo Clinic, Children suffering from this pathology were born completely healthys; However, when they reach their first year they start to show symptoms like loss of genital tissue, hair loss and slow growth. As well as showing a different and unusual physical appearance to an elderly person
Some people believe that this syndrome has an impact motor development and intelligencebut the truth is that these are not in danger. However, these people “suffering from heart problems or strokes are the final causes of death in the majority of children suffering from progeria,” according to the entity.
Sammy died.
Photo:
Share
According to studies done on those with this syndrome, the average life expectancy is about 15 years, although there are people who manage to live up to 20 years, but Sammy Basso managed to live to be 28 years old.
Causes of Hutchinson-Gilford progeria
Progeria is caused by a gene called lamin A, which produces a protein necessary to hold the center of the cell, called the nucleus, together. “Progerin makes cells unstable and is thought to contribute to the aging process of progeria,” according to the Mayo Clinic.
Death of Sammy Basso
Basso died on the night of October 5, unexpectedly and have dinner in a restaurant in the Venetian town of Treviso (north), a few days after returning from a trip to China.
Share
Sammy Basso.
Photo:
Born in 1995 in Schio (north), at the age of two he was diagnosed with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria, a very rare genetic disease that causes premature and accelerated aging. It affects only 1 in 20 million people.
Sammy dedicated his life to the research and dissemination of his own syndrome and in 2018 he graduated in Natural Sciences from the University of Padua (in the north) with a thesis on possible therapies to slow its development.
Before this, in 2005, he established with his parents, but of his own free will, even though he was still a child, the Italian Progeria Association Sammy Bassoin order to support dissemination and raise funds for scientific studies.
NEWS EDITORIAL