<P> There is no cure or approved treatment for FOP . Attempts to surgically remove the bone may result in explosive bone growth . While under anesthesia, people with FOP may encounter difficulties with intubation, restrictive pulmonary disease, and changes in the electrical conduction system of the heart . Activities that increase the risk of falling or soft tissue injury should be avoided, as even minor trauma may provoke heterotopic bone formation . </P> <P> As of 2017, approximately 800 cases of FOP have been confirmed worldwide making FOP one of the rarest diseases known . The estimated incidence of FOP is 0.5 cases per million people and affects all ethnicities . </P> <P> Medical reports describing individuals affected by FOP date back as far as the seventeenth century . FOP was originally called myositis ossificans progressiva and was thought to be caused by muscular inflammation (myositis) that caused bone formation . The disease was renamed by Victor A. McKusick in 1970 following the discovery that soft tissue other than muscles (e.g. ligaments) were also affected by the disease process . </P> <P> The best known FOP case is that of Harry Eastlack (1933--1973). His condition began to develop at the age of ten, and by the time of his death from pneumonia in November 1973, six days before his 40th birthday, his body had completely ossified, leaving him able to move only his lips . Eastlack only lived to meet one other person with his same disease . </P>

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