Syndrome of mental retardation and distal arthrogryposis in sibs
โ Scribed by Chitayat, David ;Hodgkinson, Kathy A. ;Blaichman, Shirley ;Chen, Moy-Fong ;Watters, Gordon V. ;Khalife, Samir ;Hall, Judith G.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 356 KB
- Volume
- 41
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-7299
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โฆ Synopsis
Two sisters presented with a syndrome of characteristic facial anomalies and distal arthrogryposis. The older sister is now 4 years old and is severely mentally retarded. Her sister died of respiratory failure due to hypoplastic lungs shortly after birth. The occurrence of this potentially lethal syndrome in 2 sisters with unaffected parents suggests autosomal recessive inheritance.
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We report on 3 unrelated patients with the heterogeneous fetal hypokinesia sequence. They have distal arthrogryposis, severe developmental retardation, facial anomalies as seen in the Freeman-Sheldon syndrome ("whistling face"), and Pierre Robin sequence. The present cases show a remarkable clinical