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Happy Birthday Aaditya!

May you Celebrate with the Angels in Heaven! We miss you and Love you always!…

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Added by duriya on February 14, 2012 at 8:12pm — No Comments

Rose Cookies and Kal Kal Sale

It has been a year and four months since Aaditya left us to be with our Lord, but he continues to spread his laughter and his cheer.  We at Hope for Aaditya are back to uphold our commitment of touching lives through our Christmas fundraiser, with the sale of Rose Cookies and Kal Kals. For purchase or volunteering in Bangalore India please contact Tasneem Sara 9845298915.  Merry Christmas and lots of Love!

Added by duriya on December 13, 2011 at 7:46pm — No Comments

The Niemann Pick Disease Challenge

 

Please help us with the 11-11-11 Niemann Pick Disease Challenge by writing a check for $11 to The Niemann Pick Disease Foundation!! You can mail it to me at 414 Redding Rd, Seymour Indiana 47274 USA or to them directly.

www.nnpdf.org

-Make a difference…

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Added by duriya on October 30, 2011 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Sawsan Moubarak

It is with great grief that I send out this message of the passing of Sawsan Moubarak, a sweet little soul that touched all of our hearts and is now relieved of her pain and in heaven, in peace.  Please do pray for courage and strength for her siblings and her dad, Ghassan Moubarak who left no stone unturned to help his dear daughter fight this devastating disease. 

Added by duriya on October 13, 2011 at 10:11pm — No Comments

This I Believe

This I Believe,

I believe in Aaditya Michael Dasgupta’s Unforgettable Smile.

How it lit up my sister’s life and healed her aching heart when he was born, just a few months after our mother’s passing. How it shined in his dad’s proud eyes as he sang, John Denver’s “Country Roads Take me Home”. I Believe in his smile that caught his older sister’s mischief and turned into frowns when his parents displined her. I believe in that smile that was his Grandparents joy and his Aunts’…

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Added by duriya on August 27, 2011 at 7:39pm — No Comments

Aaditya's Blog

Country Roads

Take me home

To the Place

That I Belong…

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Added by duriya on September 3, 2010 at 4:57pm — No Comments

Aaditya Dasgupta

2001 – 2010



Aaditya Michael Dasgupta entered his heavenly abode on 12/08/10 . May his soul rest in peace with the Lord.





Funeral Mass at St. Thomas Church , Suranjan Das Road ( Off old airport road ) at 3:30 pm on Saturday the 14th , preceded by condolences from 3 pm. Intern at Kalpally Cemetery

at 5 pm.



Once…

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Added by duriya on August 13, 2010 at 4:20pm — 1 Comment

An Essay by Parveen Monga

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.”…

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Added by duriya on June 1, 2010 at 7:06pm — No Comments

Meet AARYA BHATKAR

NAME : Aarya Bhatkar and Family

BIRTH DATE : 4 MAY 2008

AGE : 20 MONTHS

PRESENT WEIGHT: 8.75 Kg

HEIGHT : 78

HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE :45.3



At birth: Normal and healthy baby boy. He started crawling at 6 months. Had repeated upper respiratory tract congestions. He received nebulization for this.



At 12 months, he could not walk. An USG was done. Ultrasound report dated 19/8/2009 : spleen enlarged and measures…

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Added by duriya on May 28, 2010 at 7:50am — No Comments

Meet Zain Shaikh

Khalid Shaikh wrote:

Attached are the pictures of my son Zain and I had attached medical history which will also talk about the stories and history but still adding…

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Added by duriya on May 26, 2010 at 4:30am — No Comments

A discussion about Zavesca

A discussion about Zavesca



Duriya said: I tried reaching Actelion India, Australia and UK two years ago, only the price went up by $1000. It used to be $10,000 now it is $11,000, which is Rs.514,251, an exorbitant price as you noted, that an average family cannot afford for 90 capsules when an average monthly…

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Added by duriya on May 21, 2010 at 6:22am — No Comments

Rare Disease Day 2010

LSD Support Society of India Celebrated it's first every Rare Disease Day in India-Good Job LSD Society!

To raise awareness about chronic, debilitating diseases, India’s first ‘Rare Disease Day’ was observed in Delhi on Sunday Feb 28 2010.

Organised by the Lysosomal Storage Disorders Support Society of India (LSDSSI), the day witnessed a unique gathering at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here of over 90 patients from across India suffering from the rarest of rare…

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Added by duriya on March 15, 2010 at 8:00am — No Comments

Happy Birthday Aaditya!!

Happy Birthday Aaditya!!! Wishing you a long, healthy and blessed life and May God make you whole again and make you a witness to His miracle. Love you tons.

Added by duriya on February 15, 2010 at 8:41am — 1 Comment

Congratulations Aaditya!

Congratulations Aaditya on receiving your First Holy Communion!



Once in a Milion years

Comes an angel among us.

His presence brings sweet tears,

His soul touches our hearts,

And his kind and innocent eyes

Chases away all fears.



Only once in a million years does God create

One that brings us closer to Him,

And opens eternal heaven's gate.



I have been touched by such an angel

His presence brings such tears,

He is a gift… Continue

Added by duriya on September 12, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

India Day Booth-Aug 16th 2009

Dear Friends and Family,



We are having a Fundraiser Booth at The India Day Celebration on Aug 16th 2009-Rock Financial Plaza, Novi, Michigan.

We will be selling Hope Caps, T-shirts, Sudha Pillai's photograph Collections, and well used Indian clothing.



I have posted several pictures of Aaditya with his loving close ones on the website. Aaditya's health has progressively declined inspite of all the efforts and experimental treatments. The constant seizures have caused… Continue

Added by duriya on July 18, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

Pay Forward

Have you ever heard of pay forward? If ever anyone has been kind to you and has done something for you with no expectations and you felt like you owed it to them to be kind to someone else. Well now is the time that people have shown it really does work. Ravi, Aaditya's Dad's major calling and emailing efforts have resulted in an overwhelming response from all his friends and others that have received emails from us. We have been able to raise $7225 not including the $1200 in the HFA fund… Continue

Added by duriya on March 1, 2009 at 4:01pm — No Comments

Final Appeal for Sawsan Moubarak

Friends, those of you that are following this blog, Jason would like you all to know that Sawsan and him have reached safely to India and are in the Hospital. We are still short on the funds, so those of you have not had a chance please do consider a donation. Below is an email from Aaditya's Dad.



On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Ravi Dasgupta wrote:



Dear Friends,



As most of you know my son Aaditya had an intracranial stem cell transplant a couple of months ago… Continue

Added by duriya on February 21, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

Appeal for Sawsan Moubarak-Lebanon

Friends this is an appeal for donations for a sweet little 8 year old girl in Lebanon, Sawsan Moubarak, whose health, severly altered by Niemann Pick Type C-1 disease, is deteriorating daily. Her father, Jason (Ghassan) is hoping that she can also get the intracranial stemcell transplant in India that Aaditya has received and benefited from. We believe that with a combination of Cyclodextrin infusion along with the transplant may be a fighting chance for NPC kids. Your donation will not only… Continue

Added by duriya on February 9, 2009 at 5:47pm — No Comments

Observations

20th Dec. 2008 : 48 hrs after surgery Mom found Aaditya trying to talk ; trying to mouth words. When Mom was mouthing “I love you” to him from a distance he was looking straight into her eyes and opening his mouth as if to say the same. The same night when his cousin was asking him to go to sleep , he was having a bad cough and Mom was telling him to ask Rizu, “how could he sleep with that cough ?” , he looked at her and tried to say “how ?”. he has also been nodding to say yes or no.… Continue

Added by duriya on January 6, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

A 7 Year Old Boy’s Fight against Niemann-Pick Type C Disease

Hope for Aaditya





Miracle Boy Receives Historic Intracranial Stem Cell Transplant



A 7 Year Old Boy’s Fight against Niemann-Pick Type C Disease





In 2007, Aaditya Ravi Dasgupta’s family received devastating news. The kind of news no family ever wants to hear. They learned that their 6 year old son, Aaditya, was diagnosed with a very rare and fatal disease called Niemann-Pick Type C (NPC) that afflicts approximately 500 children, teens or adults… Continue

Added by duriya on January 1, 2009 at 3:33am — 3 Comments

Niemann-Pick Disease

Niemann-Pick disease is an inherited condition involving lipid metabolism (the breakdown and use of fats and cholesterol in the body) in which harmful amounts of lipids accumulate in the spleen, liver, lungs, bone marrow, and brain.

There are three variants of Niemann-Pick disease based on the genetic cause and the symptoms exhibited by the patient. All variants are inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern.

Mutations in the NPC1, NPC2, and SMPD1 genes cause Niemann-Pick disease.

This condition is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern, which means two copies of the gene must be altered for a person to be affected by the disorder. Most often, the parents of a child with an autosomal recessive disorder are not affected but are carriers of one copy of the altered gene. If both parents are carriers, there is a one in four, or 25%, chance with each pregnancy for an affected child. Genetic counseling and genetic testing is recommended for families who may be carriers of Niemann-Pick.

Type C is characterized by onset in childhood, although infant and adult onsets are possible. Other signs include severe liver disease, breathing difficulties, developmental delay, seizures, increased muscle tone (dystonia), lack of coordination, problems with feeding, and an inability to move the eyes vertically. People with this disorder can survive into adulthood. The incidence of Niemann-Pick disease, type C is estimated to be 1 in 150,000 people. The disease occurs more frequently in people of French-Acadian descent in Nova Scotia.

Mutations in either the NPC1 or NPC2 gene cause Niemann-Pick disease, type C. The NPC1 gene produces a protein that is located in membranes inside the cell and is involved in the movement of cholesterol and lipids within cells. A deficiency of this protein leads to the abnormal build up of lipids and cholesterol within cell membranes.

The molecular basis for this disease is extremely complex due to the role that endosome formation has on affected patients. Recently, three theories have attempted to explain the buildup of cholesterol in the lysosomes of affected patients of Niemann-Pick Disease Type C due to the malfunction of the protein NPC-1.

* The contention by Neufel et al is that the buildup of mannose 6-phosphate receptors (MPRs) in the late endosome suggests that the retrograde breakdown of cholesterol via the Trans Golgi Network cannot occur.[1]

* Another theory suggests that the blockage of retrograde cholesterol breakdown in the late endosome is due to decreased membrane elasticity and thus the return vesicles of cholesterol to the Trans Golgi Network cannot bud and form.

The support of these theories has considerable evidence using mutant proteins in vitro to determine the buildup of cholesterol in the lysosomes. Researchers have also discovered that the NPC-1 protein may function as a pump of cholesterol.[2]

The overall effect of a malfunction in NPC-1 is that low levels or an absence of the protein lead to the abnormal accumulation of lipids and cholesterol in the cells of people with this condition.


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