Brenden Adams is the tallest teenager in the world. It only has 13 years and measures over 224 cm. Right after birth, he looked like an average child, but within 12 months has reached the size of a 3-year-old. When he finished 8 Years, he was as tall as an adult. Boy, who lives in Ellensburg, USA, I do not have pituitary tumor, and the doctors did not know the cause of its excessive growth for a long time. Finally they discovered, that it is in the genes. Because further growth was threatening to die, the process had to be stopped somehow, or at least slowed down. Fortunately, everything worked out (testosterone injections were used to trigger the maturation process) and last year Brenden only increased by 1 cal (That is 2,54 cm). As is easy to guess, the life of such a tall person is not easy. Getting through the door requires shrinking in yourself, and sitting in a breakneck tilting bench, because the knees do not fit under the table top. In his mother's SUV, the boy does not move to 3. row of seats and stretches out his legs over folded second row seats. Brenden's mother, Debbie, tells, that her child is one of a kind, and this time the claim is not solely the result of parental love. The teenager is looked after by a team of doctors. They take care of its gigantic ponds, they fight lipomas and pull out oversized teeth. Last year they removed them all the way 12.
Parents first noticed, that the boy is growing too fast during a follow-up visit to the pediatrician in the second month of life. After another two months, the suspicions were confirmed, because Brenden had all his teeth. Dr. Melissa Parisi, geneticist at Seattle Children's Hospital, tells, that hematologists and oncologists helped a lot in solving the mystery of the boy's continuous and rapid growth. Thanks to them, it was discovered, that he is having an inversion 12. chromosome. One of the chromosomes in this pair has been broken, and the free end has attached in the wrong place, by disrupting the work of the growth-controlling gene. Seems, that Adams is the only person in the world with this type of condition.
