Stevens-Johnson Syndrome Nearly Took Her Life—But Not Her Voice When Kara went blind and feverish in a rural hospital, doctors said it was pink eye. It wasn’t. It was Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, a rare and devastating illness that causes the body to attack its own skin and mucous membranes. By the time she was diagnosed, her life was hanging by a thread. This week on The Medical Detectives, we hear Kara’s unforgettable firsthand account of surviving SJS, misdiagnosis, and medical gaslighting. #Ste

🧬 This skull showcases a rare condition called Craniofrontonasal Syndrome, a developmental disorder that causes severe facial asymmetry. What makes it fascinating is that it breaks the rules of genetics, it’s linked to the X chromosome, yet females are more severely affected. That’s because of a process called X-inactivation, where one of the two X chromosomes in females shuts off randomly, leading to uneven expression of the gene mutation. This skull shows the classic features of the condition

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