Little Martin, for Whose Treatment Tens of Thousands of Czechs Have Volunteered, Is Making Progress

Little Martin, who suffers from a rare genetic disease, AADC syndrome, which causes serious neurological problems, is making progress thanks to treatment. A year and three months after the application of the drug Upstaza, for which over 150 million crowns were raised through a collection, doctors are monitoring positive developments. Pavlína Danková, a spokeswoman for the Motol hospital, reported this on Friday.

A three-year-old boy with a rare genetic disorder, for whose treatment using gene therapy people donated more than 150 million crowns in a public collection, is making progress, according to doctors and parents, a year and four months after the operation in Montpellier, France. Little Martin sits better, communicates more, is in a good mood and the body contractions and cramps that he had before the operation have disappeared. The proceeds from …