The rheumatologist listed six main signs of FOP in infants

There are six key criteria for ossifying progressive dysplasia (FOP) that every pediatrician should know. Irina Nikishina, PhD, Head of the Laboratory of Rheumatic Diseases of Childhood at the V.A.Nasonova Scientific Research Institute of Rheumatology, told about this on July 31 during a press conference on the topic: "Diagnose on time" at the Izvestia Press Center.

According to her, a characteristic feature of the disease is the "proud head position" of the baby, which prevents the child from crawling.

Earlier, on March 25, State Duma Deputy, President of the Dmitry Rogachev National Research Medical Center for Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Rumyantsev told the Izvestia News Center that technologies for the treatment and diagnosis of orphan (rare) diseases are rapidly developing in Russia.

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