Syndromes, Genetics/Metabolism, "Other" Flashcards
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Pustular melanosis and erythema toxicum microscopic findings
- PMNs
- Eosinophils
Port wine stain treatment
Pulsed dye laser (recommended to start treatment within first year)
Infantile hemangioma treatment
Often none as they involute in first few years
Treat if blocking vision or disfiguring: systemic glucocorticoid, beta blockers, laser
PHACES syndrome clinical findings
Posterior fossa malformation
Hemangiomas (facial or neck)
Arterial lesions (absent MCA, persistent trigeminal artery)
Cardiac lesions (abnormal aortic arch, septal defects)
Eye (retina)
Sternal defects
What is the difference in detection of hearing loss between OAE and ABR?
ABR tests for sensorineural hearing loss (OAE can’t test transmission from CN VIII to brainstem)
Recommended time frame for a repeat hearing screen in at-risk infants
24-30 months (sooner if very high-risk e.g. CMV, ECMO, bad infections)
CHARGE syndrome clinical findings
Coloboma
Heart defect
Atresia choanae
Restricted growth
Genital (hypoplasia)
Ear defect/deafness
Can be associated with TEF
VACTERL syndrome clinical findings
Vertebral
Anorectal
Cardiac
Tracheoesophageal
Renal/GU
Limb
Both maternal and neonatal exposure to erythromycin increases risk of _____
Pyloric stenosis
Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome clinical findings
- Hypoglycemia*
- Macrosomia*/hemihypertrophy (overgrowth syndrome)
- Macroglossia*
Visceromegaly (overgrowth syndrome)
Hydronephrosis/renal issues
Predisposition to infantile tumors
Schwachman-Diamond syndrome triad
Failure to thrive Pancreatic insufficiency Bone marrow failure (most notably neutropenia but can be all three)
Schwachman-Diamond mutation
7q11
Cystic fibrosis clinical manifestations
Meconium ileus (worst cases have a pseudocyst or peritonitis)
Failure to thrive
Pancreatic insufficiency
Later severe respiratory infections/insufficiency
OEIS complex/syndrome clinical findings
All related to failure to ventral walls to fuse Omphalocele Exstrophy (cloaca or variant where bladder and rectum are exposed and not fully formed) Imperforate anus Spinal defects (e.g. spina bifida)
EEC syndrome clinical findings
Ectodermal dysplasia (skin, hair, teeth, nails)
Ectrodactyly (“split hand” where central digits are missing)
Cleft palate
When you have EEC it’s EASY to C, it’s on your face and hands
Pentalogy of Cantrell physical findings
Sternal defect
Diaphragmatic defect (anterior)
Absent lower pericardium
Cardiac defect (usually VSD; can involve ectopia cordis –wrongly placed and partially/completely exposed heart)
Abdominal wall defect (hernia, omphalocele)
The primary finding in former premature infants who received high doses of morphine
Smaller cerebellums (in animal models, induces cerebellar apoptosis) Worse neurodevelopmental outcomes (NDO) is NOT definitively proven
Name three endocrine or metabolic disorders that present with cholestasis
Gaucher disease
Niemann-Pick type C
Wolman disease
Tyrisonemia
Galactosemia
Lysosomal acid lipase (LAL) deficiency
Hallmarks of glycogen storage diseases
Skeletal and cardiac muscle dysfunction due to glycogen accumulation
(Will have elevated creatine kinase, systolic dysfunction)
Cause of Pompeii disease
Acid alpha-glucosidase deficiency (GAA deficiency 2-2 mutation on 17q25)
i.e. Glycogen storage disease (type II)
Treatment is every-other-week GAA enzyme replacement therapy
_______ has similar manifestations to Turners Syndrome but a normal karyotype/microarray
Noonan Syndrome
Findings include: nuchal translucency/redundancy, low-set ears, lymphedema, pulmonary stenosis
Later have: hypotonia/delayed motor, mild intellectual disability (especially speech), occasionally poor growth
Most common cause of Noonan Syndrome
Usually due to gain of function mutation in the RAS-mitogen–activated protein kinase (MAPK) signal transduction pathway
AKA “RASopathies”, requires specific panel (not detected on conventional CMA)
Gene associated with CHARGE syndrome
CHD7 (chromodomain helicase DNA-binding protein)
Therefore, single gene sequencing is best test
Synonym for chromosomal microarray
Comparative genomic hybridization (CGH)
Good for mutations down to 50kb, but smaller deletions or single-point mutations not detected




