Whitey Ford
05-22-2021, 09:50 PM
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Two Houston doctors are hard at work solving a mystery.
“It’s like Sherlock Holmes essentially,” James Melville, oral surgeon and associate professor at UTHealth School of Dentistry, said.
Almost a year has passed since he and Dr. Simon Young, associate professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery at UTHealth School of Dentistry, began to research the unusual case of an extremely enlarged tongue.
It all started in October with Anthony Jones, whose tongue had grown to almost the size of a dinner plate, making speaking, swallowing and even breathing a challenge.
In Jones’ case, the disorder — called macroglossia — was the result of being placed on a ventilator for months during his hospitalization for COVID-19 last summer.
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In his own treatment of massive macroglossia, and his collaborations with others, Melville observed that out of nine COVID-positive cases, eight of the patients with massive tongues were African-American.
Melville and Young wanted to find out why.
“So many people were intubated, because of COVID-19,” Young said. “But not everyone has a big tongue. Is there an underlying genetic variation?”
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/health/article/Houston-doctors-studying-9-COVID-tongue-16195172.php
https://i.imgur.com/qHjza9V.jpg
Two Houston doctors are hard at work solving a mystery.
“It’s like Sherlock Holmes essentially,” James Melville, oral surgeon and associate professor at UTHealth School of Dentistry, said.
Almost a year has passed since he and Dr. Simon Young, associate professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery at UTHealth School of Dentistry, began to research the unusual case of an extremely enlarged tongue.
It all started in October with Anthony Jones, whose tongue had grown to almost the size of a dinner plate, making speaking, swallowing and even breathing a challenge.
In Jones’ case, the disorder — called macroglossia — was the result of being placed on a ventilator for months during his hospitalization for COVID-19 last summer.
https://i.imgur.com/zvGz0xp.jpg
In his own treatment of massive macroglossia, and his collaborations with others, Melville observed that out of nine COVID-positive cases, eight of the patients with massive tongues were African-American.
Melville and Young wanted to find out why.
“So many people were intubated, because of COVID-19,” Young said. “But not everyone has a big tongue. Is there an underlying genetic variation?”
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/health/article/Houston-doctors-studying-9-COVID-tongue-16195172.php