Toddler With ‘Childhood Alzheimer’s’ Begins Treatment At Chicago Hospital
Marian McGlockin, 19-months-old, from southern California, is currently in Chicago so she can receive treatment at Rush University Medical Center for a rare disease that is sometimes called “Childhood Alzheimer’s.” Niemann-Pick disease type C is a fatal, progressive, neurodegenerative storage disorder. Currently, only 500 children in the world have been diagnosed and half will die before the age of ten without intervention. From the family’s Go Fund Me, “It is a recessive genetic disease where cells cannot process and dispose of cholesterol, resulting in harmful accumulation throughout the body. This causes enlarged organs, lung damage, and slow and steady neurological deterioration, horrifically...
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