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Costello syndrome: clinical diagnosis in the first year of life #MMPMID17726614
Digilio MC; Sarkozy A; Capolino R; Chiarini Testa MB; Esposito G; de Zorzi A; Cutrera R; Marino B; Dallapiccola B
Eur J Pediatr 2008[Jun]; 167 (6): 621-8 PMID17726614show ga
We report on three patients with Costello syndrome (CS) diagnosed during the first year of life and try to outline the clinical characteristics facilitating early recognition of this syndrome, which can now be corroborated by testing the HRAS gene. Phenotypical overlap of CS with Noonan (NS) and cardiofaciocutaneous syndrome (CFCS), particularly in neonatal age, is well known. Diagnostic features useful for recognition of CS in the first year of life are the following: (1) fetal and neonatal macrosomia with subsequent slow growth due to severe feeding difficulties, (2) developmental delay, (3) particularly coarse facial dysmorphisms and gingival hyperplasia, (4) skeletal anomalies as osteoporosis and metaphyseal enlargement, (5) hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) with asymmetric septal thickening and systolic anterior motion of the mitral valve, and (6) specific atrial arrhythmias. Following a clinical suspect of CS based on specific features, molecular screening of HRAS gene mutations should precede analysis of the other genes in the Ras-MAPK pathway implicated in related disorders with overlapping phenotypes.
Eur+J+Pediatr 2008 ; 167 (6): 621-8
