It's spider fingers!

Seeing that the thumb of the young man's right hand was still stretched out under the cover of the other four fingers, Zhao Sheng judged it for the first time.

The fingers are clenched, and the thumb extends beyond the ulnar edge of the hand, which is a very typical "spider finger" in medicine.

Combined with the fact that the guy was tall but thin, and his hands were abnormally wide, Zhao Sheng instantly suspected that the guy had a very rare disease.

The young man's height is obviously beyond ordinary people, his limbs, fingers, and toes are slender and uneven, his arms are stretched out and his fingers are greater than his length, his hands are hanging down above his knees, and his upper body is longer than his lower body, which is a typical performance of "spider man".

"Doctor, what's wrong?"

The tall guy, seeing Zhao Sheng's face suddenly became solemn, immediately asked very puzzled.

"Doctor, I've been injured before, you can give me a check-up, if it's a fracture, you can give me a splint to fix it."

After a pause, the giant guy said to himself.

As a basketball player, he also has a lot of experience with injuries, and he has seen it many times even how to deal with injuries after injury.

"Do you usually feel uncomfortable?"

Zhao Sheng then asked the guy.

"No, doctor, look at my height, my hands, what can I do?"

"Doctor, just prescribe me a film for examination."

The giant guy said with some eagerness.

It's the basketball team's vacation time, and he was playing wild ball on the basketball court with others during his vacation time, and he injured his finger, and if he returned to the team after the vacation, he would definitely be disciplined by the coach.

Therefore, he had to reduce the swelling of his fingers as soon as possible, so that when he returned to the team, he would not be able to see that his fingers had been injured.

In fact, his ball skills are average, if it weren't for his unusual height and a pair of wide palms, he would not have been selected for the provincial basketball team.

"Do you often have dry lips and breathlessness?"

Zhao Sheng shook his head slightly, and asked the giant guy again.

"It's a little, but the team doctor said it was because I was developing too fast, and in a few years, my body would get used to it, and it would be fine."

The giant guy nodded, and explained.

"Have you ever heard of athlete genius disease?"

Seeing the appearance of the giant guy, Zhao Sheng decided to say it directly.

Athlete genius, that is, Marfan syndrome, is an autosomal dominant connective tissue disease, with familial agglomeration, the incidence is about 1/5000~1/3000, and there are no regional, national, and gender differences.

The main cause of its pathogenesis is the defect of the cellulose gene, which leads to the lesions of the cardiovascular, bone, eye and other systems.

The most typical manifestation of Marfan syndrome is skeletal deformity, which is manifested as long tubular thin bones throughout the body, slender fingers and toes, and is spider-like, and pectus excavatum, chicken breast, spinal deformity, etc.

In the cardiovascular aspect, it can manifest as aortic aneurysm, mitral regurgitation, mitral valve prolapse, aortic insufficiency, etc., and the development of the disease may have myocardial ischemia-like manifestations, paleness, dry lips, dyspnea, etc.

It can be said that the signs and symptoms of the giant guy fully meet the diagnostic criteria for Marfan syndrome.

"Huh? What genius disease? ”

Hearing Zhao Sheng's words, the giant guy looked confused.

Genius he knows, the coach said that his physical condition, born to eat basketball, this is a physical genius.

But genius is associated with illness, and that is beyond his knowledge.

"It's Marfan syndrome, and many athletes go because of this disease."

Zhao Sheng said very seriously.

Next, Zhao Sheng explained the etiology, pathogenesis and main risks of Marfan syndrome to the giant guy.

"Doctor, I just feel a little out of breath sometimes, isn't it?"

Hearing Zhao Sheng say this, the giant guy said with a pale face.

He was originally an ordinary person, but since he entered high school, his height has begun to skyrocket, and his hands have changed a lot, which has made him like a fish in water on the basketball court, and even attracted the attention of the provincial basketball coach in a high school basketball game.

Although his talent is not very good technically, because of this natural physical condition, the coach still selected him into the provincial team, and thus began his life of counterattack.

Now Zhao Sheng suddenly said to him that the talent he was proud of was only caused by a rare disease?

"The biggest risk of Marfan syndrome is that it will cause cardiovascular disease, and I recommend that you do a comprehensive cardiovascular system examination to rule out hidden dangers in the cardiovascular system."

Zhao Sheng said very seriously.

Most people with Marfan syndrome die of sudden cardiovascular diseases, such as myocardial infarction, ruptured aortic dissection, etc.

This is an almost unsolvable puzzle, because the physical abnormalities caused by Marfan syndrome can make a person have a very good athletic talent, because of this talent, usually people with Marfan syndrome will become athletes.

After becoming an athlete, you must carry out high-intensity training, which will increase the burden on the cardiovascular system and further develop the disease.

To put it bluntly, high-intensity athlete training can accelerate the death of people with Marfan syndrome.

If you don't become an athlete, you can live a few more years, but you can only live a mediocre life.

When you become an athlete, you will accelerate your death, and this is an unsolvable problem.

"Doctor, it's not going to be that serious, is it?"

The giant guy muttered.

He couldn't accept what Zhao Sheng said at all, if he wanted to live a few more years according to Zhao Sheng, his sports career might come to an end.

"Doctor, now that medicine is so advanced, there will be a way to cure me, right?"

After a pause, the giant guy looked at Zhao Sheng hopefully and said.

Seeing the hopeful eyes of the giant guy, Zhao Sheng felt a little unbearable in his heart.

The average survival age of patients with Marfan syndrome is 32 years old, and if you pay attention, do not exercise vigorously, and take good care of your body, you may be close to or even more than 32 years old.

But if you have this disease, you still want to be an athlete and receive high-intensity training every day, then this survival age will be greatly shortened.

The giant guy is now eighteen years old, and if he wants to continue his career as a basketball player, how old he can live, it's really hard to say.

"You can discuss it with your family."

Zhao Sheng thought about it, but still didn't come up with any words of comfort.

Because any words of comfort that are said now will be a sharp blade in the face of the cruel truth of the giant guy, directly into his heart.

"Doctor, then you can show your fingers first."

The Giant Guy doesn't seem to want to face this now.

It can be dragged on for a day.

What if I'm lucky and don't get sick all the time!

The giant guy thought in his heart.

(End of chapter)