Doctors at Harvard Medical School and the University of Southern California are going public to seek new cases of a mysterious, life-threatening blood disease in hopes of finding clues toward a cause and a cure. The researchers have identified three people in the world with the syndrome, which worsens over time and causes painful fluid buildup around the kidneys, shortness of breath that can require oxygen, dilated blood vessels under the skin and spontaneous bleeding in the brain. Three more potential cases of the syndrome, dubbed TEMPI, have been previously reported in medical literature, the researchers wrote today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
