Syndrome of arachnodactyly, disturbance of cranial ossification, protruding eyes, feeding difficulties, and mental retardation

Am J Med Genet. 1995 Sep 11;58(3):213-6. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.1320580303.

Abstract

We have evaluated an infant with a striking combination of craniofacial anomalies, arachnodactyly, and severe developmental failure. She died at the age of 5 months during a recurrent apneic episode. She also had protruding eyes, downward slant of palpebral fissures, short upturned nose, midface hypoplasia, micrognathia, extreme under-development of the epiglottis, and severe feeding difficulties. The patient closely resembled four other previously reported patients. It is suggested that these five patients represent the same malformation syndrome, a well-recognizable separate entity. Our patient also had a pericentric inversion of chromosome 10; a possible association of this with the phenotype cannot be excluded.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Abnormalities, Multiple / genetics*
  • Chromosome Inversion
  • Chromosomes, Human, Pair 10
  • Eating*
  • Eye Abnormalities / genetics*
  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Intellectual Disability / genetics*
  • Marfan Syndrome / genetics*
  • Skull / abnormalities*
  • Syndrome