Here he is pictured in hospital on December 10, just weeks prior to his death. The disease was so severe his hands and feet pictured were covered in more than 13lbs of warts. Here he is pictured prior to surgery in February, Despite multiple treatments to remove the growths, they continued regrowing and eventually cost Mr Koswara his family, job and independence.
Nurses said that in the weeks leading up to his death, Mr Koswara had resigned himself to the illness and smoked heavily to help pass the time. By the time he died, Mr Koswara was estranged from his wife and children, and the disease has also cost him his job as a carpenter.
Here he is pictured in with his young cousin Andra. Mr Koswara suffered from Lewandowsky-Lutz dysplasia, a disease which results in uncontrolled human papilloma virus HPV infections and the growth of scaly warts resembling tree bark. He died of a complicated series of health problems, including hepatitis, liver and gastric disorders, three months after he had checked into hospital.
One of his doctors said: 'He was resigned to his illness. He must've been pretty tough to face all the insults he suffered over the years.
According to his sister, his was unable to feed himself or speak because he was too weak. She added that he remained estranged from his family up until his death - but according to those treating him, he never gave up hope of a cure. He wanted to go back to being a carpenter and starting a home business.
The disease was so severe his hands and feet were covered with more than 13lbs of warts, also called 'cutaneous horns'. The severity of his condition gave him international notoriety - including several feature-length documentaries highlighting his plight. The warts were severely debilitating, preventing the proper use of his hands and feet - and were believed locally to have been the result of a curse.
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For example, HPV 1 and 2 cause warts to grow on the hands and feet—entirely separate from the form of the virus that causes growths in the throat or genital area. Researchers agree that Treemen probably suffer from Type 2, which many people in the world actually have, just not to this severe extent.
These Treemen possess an immunodeficiency to the virus, which leads to the extreme rate and size of their growths. Luckily, these "horns" that form from the warts do not cause the patients any pain. Even though the warts continue to grow new cells, there's nothing inside of the horns no nerves exist. And usually, one's immune system would kick in at this constant production of new cells, but when an immunodeficiency is present, nothing can fight off this proliferation of cells.
When many people think about HPV, they associate the virus with HPV 6 and 11—the form that causes warts to appear in the genital area. These types are considered to be a sexually transmitted disease and are known to increase the risk of some cancers.
For years, year-old Abul Bajandar, from Bangaldesh , was covered with what looked like bark. His hands and feet grew foot-long, gnarled "roots," skin lesions that left him unable to feed himself, move around, work, or wear standard clothing. A few years ago, surgery finally changed his life.
For the last two decades , according to CNN, Bajandar has been suffering from epidermodysplasia verruciformis EV , also known as tree man syndrome. A similar case was profiled in an ABC News program in Dede Koswara, a young craftsman in Indonesia, battled EV for years.
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