Minas Gerais priest Márlon Múcio, known for having an ultra-rare disease and taking 315 pills a day, was hospitalized on Tuesday (30), making it his 21st visit to the hospital this year.
As reported on social media, due to the disease known as Riboflavin Transporter Deficiency (RTD),
“Beloved family, please pray for me. I’m in the emergency room, in unbearable pain. God willing, it won’t be a heart attack. They don’t know what it is. All I know is that the pain is in me haha. Undergoing tests and taking medication”, Márlon said.
The priest reported that, at the age of 46, he was diagnosed with RTD, also called Brown-Vialleto-van-Laere Syndrome. In addition to daily pills, Márlon is tracheostomized and
He explains that this is a neurodegenerative diseaseprogressive, congenital, genetic and has no cure. Currently, there are 17 confirmed cases of RTD in Brazil and around 400 worldwide.
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