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Extremely Low Birthweight Infant with Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome: A Dilemma in Determination of the Optimal Timing of Delivery
Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS) is characterized by multiple malformations as well as mental and developmental defects resulting from the absence of a distal segment of the short arm of chromosome 4. We experienced an extremely low birthweight infant with WHS. The male infant (birthweight 934 g) was...
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2008
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3785355/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24179343 |
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author | Iijima, Shigeo Ohzeki, Takehiko |
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description | Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS) is characterized by multiple malformations as well as mental and developmental defects resulting from the absence of a distal segment of the short arm of chromosome 4. We experienced an extremely low birthweight infant with WHS. The male infant (birthweight 934 g) was born at 31 weeks’ gestation by cesarean section due to intrauterine growth restriction and presented with the typical WHS phenotype. Chromosomal analysis showed a deletion: 46,XY,del(4)(p15.3 p16). Although the patient’s respiratory distress syndrome resolved favourably and his subsequent condition was also stable, he had unusually severe retinopathy of prematurity and periventricular leukomalacia. We suppose that these severe complications were associated with not only prematurity but also with latent structural fragility due to WHS. Herein, we discuss the prenatal detection of WHS and the optimal timing of delivery. |
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spelling | pubmed-37853552013-10-31 Extremely Low Birthweight Infant with Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome: A Dilemma in Determination of the Optimal Timing of Delivery Iijima, Shigeo Ohzeki, Takehiko Clin Med Case Rep Case Report Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS) is characterized by multiple malformations as well as mental and developmental defects resulting from the absence of a distal segment of the short arm of chromosome 4. We experienced an extremely low birthweight infant with WHS. The male infant (birthweight 934 g) was born at 31 weeks’ gestation by cesarean section due to intrauterine growth restriction and presented with the typical WHS phenotype. Chromosomal analysis showed a deletion: 46,XY,del(4)(p15.3 p16). Although the patient’s respiratory distress syndrome resolved favourably and his subsequent condition was also stable, he had unusually severe retinopathy of prematurity and periventricular leukomalacia. We suppose that these severe complications were associated with not only prematurity but also with latent structural fragility due to WHS. Herein, we discuss the prenatal detection of WHS and the optimal timing of delivery. Libertas Academica 2008-05-16 /pmc/articles/PMC3785355/ /pubmed/24179343 Text en © 2008 by the authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). |
spellingShingle | Case Report Iijima, Shigeo Ohzeki, Takehiko Extremely Low Birthweight Infant with Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome: A Dilemma in Determination of the Optimal Timing of Delivery |
title | Extremely Low Birthweight Infant with Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome: A Dilemma in Determination of the Optimal Timing of Delivery |
title_full | Extremely Low Birthweight Infant with Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome: A Dilemma in Determination of the Optimal Timing of Delivery |
title_fullStr | Extremely Low Birthweight Infant with Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome: A Dilemma in Determination of the Optimal Timing of Delivery |
title_full_unstemmed | Extremely Low Birthweight Infant with Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome: A Dilemma in Determination of the Optimal Timing of Delivery |
title_short | Extremely Low Birthweight Infant with Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome: A Dilemma in Determination of the Optimal Timing of Delivery |
title_sort | extremely low birthweight infant with wolf-hirschhorn syndrome: a dilemma in determination of the optimal timing of delivery |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3785355/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24179343 |
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