Two Iranian cases with very rare progeroid syndrome are reported. The first is a 24-year-old girl who has been healthy till her 13th birthday. From that time she has been suffering from a progressive generalized and multi-systemic illness. The cardinal clinical findings were growth retardation, subcutaneous fat loss, skin dryness and wrinkling, scattered focal sclerodermoid-like changes, promin...

IN this issue of the Journal, I have included a summary of a workshop held in November 2007 on the topic of Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS) (1). This syndrome was first described over 120 years ago by Hutchinson (2), and although the phenotype does include some aging-like changes, biogerontologists have questioned whether it is a viable model for studying accelerated aging (3). The ...