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Malignant infantile Osteopetrosis
April 2, 2010 by ru30
Malignant infantile Osteopetrosis is a very rare and very painful disease. It usually happens when you are a baby and the first symptom happen the day you are born. This disease has other names like: Albers-Schonberg Disease, Generalized Congenital Osteosclerosis, Ivory Bones, Marble Bones, Osteosclerosis Fragilis Generalisata.
Some of the Symptoms include: Crying because it hurts so much, lots of fractures, frequent infections, bulging bone in some places, and sometimes blindness, deafness, or strokes.
The cause of this disease is that about every month or so the bone marrow gets rebuilt and the Osteoclasts get rid of the old bone, but when you have Malignant infantile Osteopetrosis the Osteoclasts don’t work causing excess bone marrow to build up. 
The only treatment for this disease is a bone marrow transplant, but it is very dangerous because it is being done on very young kids. Most don’t survive the bone marrow transplant.
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on April 6th, 2010 at 11:52 am
nice job raili! Do adults have a greater chance of surviving a bone marrow transplant?
on April 8th, 2010 at 2:17 pm
yes they do ali because they have more blood.
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on May 17th, 2010 at 10:09 am
RAILI WHAT THE HECK IS A BONE MARROW???!!! haha:) You’re blog is super awesome, and maybe you will get up to 1,000 veiws like me… we will just have to see!
on May 17th, 2010 at 10:24 am
Ali,
Bone marrow is what you bones are made up of. Your blog is super awsome too!
Raili
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on January 9th, 2011 at 2:33 pm
Hi, my name is Hellen, I have a nephew he was diagnosticated Malignant infantile Osteopetrosis, he was 3 month old, he had a bone marrow transplant at 6 month, thank’s to GOD now he is five year old and he is too healthy, he goes to kindergarten.