Medicine:Heart-hand syndrome, Spanish type

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Heart-hand syndrome, Spanish type
Other namesHeart hand syndrome type 3 (or III), brachydactyly and intraventricular conduction defect, upper limb malformations and congenital cardiac anomalies.[1]
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SpecialtyMedical genetics
SymptomsHeart and hand anomalies
Usual onsetConception
DurationLife-long
TypesThis is a type of heart hand syndrome, and doesn't have any subtypes itself.
CausesAutosomal dominant inheritance
Diagnostic methodPhysical examination, Radiography
Preventionnone
PrognosisOk
Frequencyvery rare, only 1 family has ever been recorded in medical literature
Deaths-

Heart-hand syndrome, Spanish type, also known as heart-hand syndrome type 3 or III, is a very rare genetic disorder which is characterized by heart, hand, and sometimes feet abnormalities. It is a type of heart-hand syndrome,[2] a class of genetic disorders characterized by cardiac malformations and hand malformations. Only one family with the disorder has been reported in medical literature.[3]

Description

People with this disorder have symptoms that affect the heart, hands and feet. These include:[4][5][6]

Heart

  • Sick sinus
  • Bundle branch block

Hands

  • Brachydactyly which resembles brachydactyly type C
  • Abnormal development of the middle phalanges of the fingers
  • Accessory ossicle on the proximal phalange of the index finger.

Feet

  • Subtle feet anomalies such as syndactyly

Etimology

This condition was first discovered by Ruiz de la Fuente et al., when they described a 3-generation family from Spain with the symptoms mentioned above. The cardiac defects varied between family members; 3 members had intraventicular conduction defects and 1 had a sick sinus. In this family, the 2nd and 5th fingers were the most severely affected out of all the fingers. Autosomal dominant inheritance was suspected.[7]

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