Calvino's tears (nydailynews.com)
World is mesmerized by the fifteen-year-old teenage boy, Calvino Inman, who cries tears of blood.
Doctors can’t identify the medical reasoning behind his unique condition. The Tennessee boy suffers harassment in school, where kids have labeled him as “possessed.”
Calvino Inman says of tears that bleed for hours:
“I feel it coming up, like a tear, sometimes it will burn.”
Doctors are puzzled, as there’s no clear explanation that they can provide to the family, even after undergoing numerous tests: CAT, MRI and Ultrasound.
Dr. Jennifer Ashton
Dr. Jennifer Ashton has voiced her bewilderment as well on “The Early Show,” where she is their medical correspondent.
“Usually,” she said, “it’s would be more plausible occurring with just one eye.”
So far doctors have resorted to process of elimination, and are hypothesizing that it could possibly be “haemolacria,” which stands for “bloody tears” only affects one in a million people.
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Tags: boy cries blood tears, calvino inman, cbs, Dr. Jennifer Ashton, haemolacria, teen cries blood tears, teen cries bloody tears, the early show
Erin | September 3, 2009 at 11:32 pm
To Calvino Inman: Get a genetic test for changes (mutations) in the endoglin or ALK1 genes.
Osler-Weber-Rendu syndrome is an inherited condition. It can affect males or females of any ethnic or racial group.
People with this condition can develop abnormal blood vessels called arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) in several areas of the body. If they are on the skin, they are called telangiectasias. The AVMs can also develop in other areas of the body, such as the brain, lungs, liver, or intestines.
The syndrome is genetic, which means it results from an abnormality in one of a few genes. Scientists have identified some of the genes involved. However, they do not know exactly how the gene defects lead to the abnormal blood vessels seen in persons with this syndrome.
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David bolanos | September 14, 2009 at 8:50 am
Well in my personal thoughts your all idiots… If it was genetic some one in the family would also have it so that rules that out if this is even true then i would go with another mri to actually find something even the smallest thing…