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Young Om Landge is 10 years old, a bright child fond of cricket and painting. He studies in Santutai English Medium school on the outskirts of Pune. At the age of 5 he was diagnosed with extra hepatic portal venous obstruction (EHPVO) at a Children's speciality in Pune. This is a condition wherein the main blood supply to the liver, the portal vein, is blocked and replaced by bypass channels, some of which develop in the food pipe. These can rupture and cause life threatening blood vomits.
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Hemophagocyticlymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a rare but potentially fatal disease of normal but overactive cells calledhistiocytes and lymphocytes that commonly appears in the first year of life, although it has been seen in all age groups.
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Program for the event is here Gaucher disease is an inherited disorder that affects many of the body's organs and tissues. How common is Gaucher disease? Gaucher disease occurs in 1 in 50,000 to 100,000 people in the general population. How do people inherit Gaucher disease? |