What should have been one of their family’s happiest moments quickly turned somber as they feared the seriousness of Wyatt’s condition. The dermatology team suspected it could be a skin disease, but they couldn’t know for sure. Wyatt needed to be transferred to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.
Stanford recently launched the world’s first stem-cell based trial aimed at a devastating skin disease called epidermoloysis bullosa. Physicians from our dermatology team are trying to correct a faulty gene in the skin cells of patients with a severe form of the condition, which causes large, painful wounds and currently has no cure.
Freckles are a phenomenon that occurs when genetically predisposed people (often those with fair skin, red hair, and light eyes) are exposed to UV light over time, according to Joyce Teng, MD, director of pediatric dermatology for Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.
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