Hirschsprung's disease and congenital deafness

✍ Scribed by Arthur G. Weinberg; Guido Currarino; Abraham M. Besserman

• Book ID: 104791700
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1977
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 503 KB
• Volume: 38
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0340-6717
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00527397

✦ Synopsis

A family is described showing deafness in three consecutive generations. Hirshchsprung's disease was present in at least two of the affected patients and a history of bowel dysfunction was present in the third. The assocation of the two disorders in this family may be due to a single autosomal dominant gene and in this regard differs from previously reported isolated patients with Hirschsprung's disease and deafness.