A full term female newborn presented with prominent forehead, bilateral microphthalmia, iris coloboma and cataract, wide intercanthal distance, large, low-set and protruding ears, skin tag at the left nasal nostril, imperforate anus with rectovestibular fistula, and postnatal growth delay with brachymicrocephaly. A marker chromosome was not detectable and the copy number of 22q11 was normal. However, array CGH revealed a 3.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Pediatr Endocrinol Metab
April 2013
Background: Growth hormone (GH) deficiency may occur in Turner syndrome (TS), but infantile hypoglycemia attributable to TS with GH deficiency has not been reported before.
Objectives: We report a puzzling case of neonatal hypoglycemia due to GH deficiency in Turner syndrome. Array CGH was used to scrutinize the complex TS karyotype.