McDonough syndrome | |
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Other names | Mental retardation, peculiar facies, kyphoscoliosis, diastasis recti, cryptorchidism, and congenital heart defect |
Specialty | Medical genetics |
Symptoms | facial dysmorphisms, psychomotor delays, intellectual disabilities, and congenital heart defects |
Usual onset | Conception |
Duration | Lifelong |
Prevention | none |
Prognosis | Ok |
Frequency | very rare, only 6 cases from three families in the U.S., Spain and India have been described in medical literature |
Deaths | - |
McDonough syndrome, also known as Mental retardation, peculiar facies, kyphoscoliosis, diastasis recti, cryptorchidism, and congenital heart defect is a very rare multi-systemic genetic disorder which is characterized by facial dysmorphisms, psychomotor delays, intellectual disabilities, and congenital heart defects. Additional findings include either pectus excavatum or pectus carinatum, kyphoscoliosis, diastasis recti and cryptorchidism.[1]
The following is a list of the symptoms individuals with this disorder usually exhibit:[2]
Less common symptoms include chest defects, kyphoscoliosis, diastasis recti ane cryptorchidism
6 cases have been reported in medical literature:
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonough syndrome.
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