Medicine:Cardiospondylocarpofacial syndrome

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Short description: Genetic disorder


Cardiospondylocarpofacial syndrome is a very rare genetic disorder which is characterized by cardiac, digital, osseous anomalies with facial dysmorphisms

Signs and symptoms

The following is a list of the symptoms most commonly exhibited:[1]

  • Variable vertebral anomalies
  • Brachydactyly
  • Conductive hearing loss
  • High palate
  • Mitral regurgitation
  • Mitral valve prolapse
  • Short stature, nearing dwarfism
  • Short palms
  • Carpal bone synostosis

Less common symptoms include:

  • Failure for permanent teeth to erupt
  • Teeth misalignment
  • Horseshoe kidney
  • Dentition anomalies
  • Ocular anomalies
  • Nostril anteversion
  • Epiphysis in the shape of a cone
  • Congenital hearing loss
  • Decresed testes size (males)
  • Skeletal maturation delay
  • Feeding difficulties
  • Freckles
  • Apple cheeks
  • Gastroesophageal reflux
  • Hypertelorism
  • Joint hypermobility
  • Long philtrum
  • Rotated ears
  • Pseudoepiphyses
  • High frequency of middle ear infections
  • Rib synostosis
  • Scoliosis
  • Small foot
  • Strabismus
  • Tarsal synostosis
  • Telecanthus
  • Upslanted palpebral fissures
  • Broad nasal bridge
  • Vesicoureteral reflux

Causes

It is caused by autosomal dominant mutations of the MAP3K7 gene in the long arm of chromosome 6.[2][3][4]

Epidemiology

Only 12 cases worldwide have been described in medical literature.[5]

References