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Patel A, Kozlowski K, Richardson K, Jalaeian H, Venkat S. Abstract No. 225 Comparison of Outcome of CT-Guided Lung Biopsy Using a 17-Gauge vs. 19-Gauge Biopsy Gun System. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2022.12.286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/27/2023] Open
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The Editors have retracted this article [1] as is it is not clear whether parental consent was provided for publication of the images and case. Given the age of the article we have been unable to verify this, therefore the article is no longer available online in order to protect the privacy of the individual. Both authors agree to this retraction.
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- K Kozlowski
- Department of Radiology and Children's Medical Research Foundation, Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Radiology and Children's Medical Research Foundation, Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney, Australia
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Dubash SR, Merchant S, Heinzmann K, Mauri F, Lavdas I, Inglese M, Kozlowski K, Rama N, Masrour N, Steel JF, Thornton A, Lim AK, Lewanski C, Cleator S, Coombes RC, Kenny L, Aboagye EO. Clinical translation of [ 18F]ICMT-11 for measuring chemotherapy-induced caspase 3/7 activation in breast and lung cancer. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2018; 45:2285-2299. [PMID: 30259091 PMCID: PMC6208806 DOI: 10.1007/s00259-018-4098-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2018] [Accepted: 07/17/2018] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND Effective anticancer therapy is thought to involve induction of tumour cell death through apoptosis and/or necrosis. [18F]ICMT-11, an isatin sulfonamide caspase-3/7-specific radiotracer, has been developed for PET imaging and shown to have favourable dosimetry, safety, and biodistribution. We report the translation of [18F]ICMT-11 PET to measure chemotherapy-induced caspase-3/7 activation in breast and lung cancer patients receiving first-line therapy. RESULTS Breast tumour SUVmax of [18F]ICMT-11 was low at baseline and unchanged following therapy. Measurement of M30/M60 cytokeratin-18 cleavage products showed that therapy was predominantly not apoptosis in nature. While increases in caspase-3 staining on breast histology were seen, post-treatment caspase-3 positivity values were only approximately 1%; this low level of caspase-3 could have limited sensitive detection by [18F]ICMT-11-PET. Fourteen out of 15 breast cancer patients responded to first-line chemotherapy (complete or partial response); one patient had stable disease. Four patients showed increases in regions of high tumour [18F]ICMT-11 intensity on voxel-wise analysis of tumour data (classed as PADS); response was not exclusive to patients with this phenotype. In patients with lung cancer, multi-parametric [18F]ICMT-11 PET and MRI (diffusion-weighted- and dynamic contrast enhanced-MRI) showed that PET changes were concordant with cell death in the absence of significant perfusion changes. CONCLUSION This study highlights the potential use of [18F]ICMT-11 PET as a promising candidate for non-invasive imaging of caspase3/7 activation, and the difficulties encountered in assessing early-treatment responses. We summarize that tumour response could occur in the absence of predominant chemotherapy-induced caspase-3/7 activation measured non-invasively across entire tumour lesions in patients with breast and lung cancer.
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- S R Dubash
- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Rd, London, W120NN, UK
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- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Rd, London, W120NN, UK
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- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Rd, London, W120NN, UK
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- Department of Radiology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Rd, London, W120NN, UK
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- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Rd, London, W120NN, UK
- Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering Antonio Ruberti, University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy
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- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Rd, London, W120NN, UK
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- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Rd, London, W120NN, UK
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- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Rd, London, W120NN, UK
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- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Rd, London, W120NN, UK
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- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Rd, London, W120NN, UK
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- Department of Radiology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Oncology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Oncology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Oncology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Rd, London, W120NN, UK.
- Department of Oncology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
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- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Rd, London, W120NN, UK.
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Lodi-Smith J, Krauss Whitbourne S, Virginia H, Kellogg A, Kozlowski K. PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND AGING IN THE ROCHESTER ADULT LONGITUDINAL STUDY. Innov Aging 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igy023.1393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- J Lodi-Smith
- Canisius College, Buffalo, New York, United States
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- University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, USA, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA
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Kozlowski K, Mikulski D, Rogiewicz A, Zdunczyk Z, Rad-Spice M, Jeroch H, Jankowski J, Slominski B. Yellow-seeded B. napus and B. juncea canola. Part 2. Nutritive value of the meal for turkeys. Anim Feed Sci Technol 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2018.03.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Kozlowski K, Filipiak-Miastkowska I, Narebska E, Nowicki S, Chylinska H. Dysplasia spondylometa-epiphysaria congenita und Dysplasia spondyloepiphysaria congenita mit Brachymetakarpie und -metatarsie. ROFO-FORTSCHR RONTG 2009. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1229110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Kozlowski K, Fellmann K, Senger A, Prokop E, Kuczynski W. Spondylo-epiphysäre Dysplasien mit Valgusdeformität der Kniegelenke. ROFO-FORTSCHR RONTG 2009. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1229161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Al Kaissi A, Bieganski T, Baranska D, Chehida FB, Gharbi H, Ghachem MB, Hendaoui L, Safi H, Kozlowski K. Robinow syndrome: report of two cases and review of the literature. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 51:83-6. [PMID: 17217496 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1673.2006.01668.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We report two patients with Robinow syndrome, review the published literature and stress the importance and limitations of radiographic examination in the diagnosis of this disorder, which shows extreme clinical and radiographic variability. The radiographic differential diagnosis of Robinow syndrome is discussed.
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- A Al Kaissi
- Department of Paediatric Orthopaedics, Children's Hospital Tunis, Tunsia
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We report three members of an Armenian family with Hajdu-Cheney syndrome. The history suggested that five other members of the family were also probably affected. This disorder is important for the radiologist because distinctive radiographic findings make the diagnosis possible before clinical signs and symptoms are fully developed. Additionally, radiographic examination is essential in all patients suspected of Hajdu-Cheney syndrome for confirmation of the clinical diagnosis. Radiographic examination also detects complications of the syndrome not evident on clinical examination.
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- I Marik
- Ambulant Centre for Defects of Locomotor Apparatus, Paediatric Clinic, University Motol Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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Marik I, Marikova A, Hyankova E, Kozlowski K. Familial expansile osteolysis--not exclusively an adult disorder. Skeletal Radiol 2006; 35:872-5. [PMID: 16470392 DOI: 10.1007/s00256-005-0077-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2005] [Revised: 12/07/2005] [Accepted: 12/08/2005] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Familial expansile osteolysis (FEO, MIM174810) is a rare syndrome which was observed world-wide in only three kinships and in two unrelated American individuals. We report a patient with familial expansile osteolysis from the Czech Republic, not related to the previously reported cases. This patient's extraordinary clinical course does not conform to the ordinary. Her radiographic bone involvement was unusually extensive, involving most of the peripheral skeleton and the skull. This case documents that familial expansile osteolysis is not only a disease of adults but does occur in childhood.
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- Ivo Marik
- Ambulant Centre for Patients with Locomotor Defects, Prague, Czech Republic
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Szczaluba K, Hilbert K, Obersztyn E, Zabel B, Mazurczak T, Kozlowski K. Du Pan syndrome phenotype caused by heterozygous pathogenic mutations in CDMP1 gene. Am J Med Genet A 2006; 138:379-83. [PMID: 16222676 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.30969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Du Pan syndrome is a rare acromesomelic dysplasia with characteristic clinical and radiographic findings. It is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait. Almost all the patients reported have been from Muslim countries. We report on a female and her child with Du Pan syndrome from a Caucasian, Polish family. Three new heterozygous mutations clustered on one allele of the CDMP1 gene were identified in the affected individuals resulting in the first familial case with dominant Du Pan syndrome. A possible synergistic effect of the cis-acting mutations located in the active domain of the mature CDMP1 protein is likely to be responsible for the clinical expression of the disorder.
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- K Szczaluba
- The National Institute of Mother and Child, Warsaw, Poland
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Kozlowski K, Basel D, Beighton P. Retrospective diagnosis of chondrodysplasia punctata. Australas Radiol 2006; 50:55-8. [PMID: 16499729 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1673.2005.01531.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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The diagnosis of punctate epiphyseal dysplasia (PED) after disappearance of puncta is problematical. In some instances, however, the phenotypic and radiographic characteristics may persist and permit a retrospective diagnosis of PED in persons with unclassified bone dysplasia or bone changes of unknown origin. We report a boy aged 8 years who presented with unusual bony abnormalities that were consistent with a diagnosis of PED.
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- K Kozlowski
- Department of Medical Imaging, New Children's Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Al Kaissi A, Ghachem MB, Nassib N, Ben Chehida F, Kozlowski K. Spondylocarpotarsal synostosis syndrome (with a posterior midline unsegmented bar). Skeletal Radiol 2005; 34:364-6. [PMID: 15891931 DOI: 10.1007/s00256-004-0869-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2004] [Revised: 09/12/2004] [Accepted: 09/14/2004] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Spondylocarpotarsal synostosis syndrome (SSS) is characterised by malsegmentation of the thoracic spine and carpal/tarsal fusions. A unilateral or bilateral unsegmented bar may be present in the thoracic spine. Presenting clinical signs are congenital scoliosis early in life, and shortening of the trunk with scoliosis and/or lordosis in older children. We report a 13-year-old girl with SSS and a midline unsegmented bar running along the spinal processes of T3 to L2 and extending into the posterior vertebral elements.
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- Service d'orthopedie infantile, Hospital d'Enfants, Tunis, Tunisia
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Al Kaissi A, Ghachem MB, Nessib N, Chehida FB, Hammou A, Kozlowski K. Distinctive new form of spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia with severe metaphyseal changes similar to Jansen metaphyseal chondrodysplasia. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 49:57-62. [PMID: 15727611 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1673.2005.01395.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We report a boy with a unique, "new" form of spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia. The conspicuous features of the spinal changes were the delay in ossification of the cervical spine and posterior elements of the thoraco-lumbar spine. The vertebral bodies were of abnormal shape but of normal size and well ossified. The hallmark of epiphyseal changes was markedly delayed ossification (bone age). The severely disturbed metaphyseal ossification was similar to Jansen metaphyseal dysplasia. This pattern of changes has not yet been described in spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia.
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- A Al Kaissi
- Department of Paediatric Orthopaedics, Children's Hospital, Tunis, Tunisia
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The clinical and radiographic features and management of a young person with recently delineated Osteogenesis Imperfecta Type V is described. A female aged 9 years presented with a history of multiple fractures since 3 years of age and bilateral dislocation of the elbows from infancy. She was commenced on a low dose frequent regimen of cyclic intravenous pamidronate, which resulted in progressive improvement in bone density, reduced fracture frequency and remission of symptoms of osteoporosis.
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- F Fleming
- Department of Clinical Genetics, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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We report three further patients of the recently described new bone dysplasia-dominantly inherited pseudorheumatoid arthritis. The patients of this report have a similar clinical history, the same distinctive phenotype and almost identical radiographic findings. The only major difference is absence of weather dependent articular pain which characterized the family of the previous study. This report expands the clinical data of this bone dysplasia. All patients are Caucasians and originate from different parts of the Czech Republic. It seems that this disorder is quite a common constitutional bone disorder in this country. We propose the name of Czech Dysplasia Metatarsal Type for this unique disease.
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- K Kozlowski
- Department of Medical Imaging, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia.
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We report on three Tunisian siblings with a rare assortment of clinical and radiographic abnormalities closely resembling Desbuquois dysplasia. However, the siblings have had normal facies, normal hands, and were mentally normal. There were severe musculo-skeletal distinguishing features such as joint stiffness, severe kyphoscoliosis, and multiple large joint dislocations. Moreover, the patients had an additional remarkable radiographic feature not reported in Desbequois dysplasia-multiple carpal ossification centers. The diagnosis of Desbuquois dysplasia is more difficult in older children and adults as the characteristic facial features of early childhood may recede, and the metaphyseal growth plates obliterate. This condition of these patients represents a novel Desbuquois-like syndrome.
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- Ali Al Kaissi
- Department of Paediatric Orthopaedics, Children's Hospital, Tunis, Tunisia
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Sulko J, Czarny-Ratajczak M, Wozniak A, Latos-Bielenska A, Kozlowski K. Novel amino acid substitution in the Y-position of collagen type II causes spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia congenita. Am J Med Genet A 2005; 137A:292-7. [PMID: 16088915 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.30881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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We report on monozygotic twins with short stature and severe spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia congenita (SEMDC) from the Polish population. Phenotype of the twin girls resembles spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita Spranger-Wiedemann (SEDC-SW), but shortening of the stature is more severe and the cranioface is normal. The distinctive radiographic features, in spite of similarity to SEDC-SW, indicate different spinal and, notably, severe metaphyseal involvement. Molecular analysis of the COL2A1 gene revealed an A to G transition at nucleotide +79 of exon 41 that converted the codon for arginine at amino acid 792 to a codon for glycine (Arg792Gly). The twins were heterozygous for the mutation and neither parent had this change. The Arg792Gly substitution is located at the Y-position of Gly-X-Y triplet, and it is likely that this substitution decreased the thermal stability of the triple helix and may affect fibril growth by replacement of an arginine residue, which is important for a conformation of the triple helix.
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- J Sulko
- Orthopaedic and Traumatology Division, Children's University Hospital, Cracow, Poland
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Chondrodysplasia punctata (CDP) was diagnosed clinically and radiographically in a male child born in Cape Town in 1991. His only sibling, a brother born in 2000 was similarly but more severely affected. The boys' mother had longstanding disseminated lupus erythematosus and epilepsy, for which she had been treated with chloraquine and other therapeutic agents during both pregnancies. The parents were non-consanguineous, and the family history was unremarkable. In addition to these affected brothers, seven previous instances of the association of CDP and maternal lupus erythematosus (MLE) have been reported. On this basis, MLE must be regarded as yet another causative factor in CDP.
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- K Kozlowski
- Department of Medical Imaging, New Children's Hospital, Sydney, Australia
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Nizankowska-Blaz T, Wisz S, Kozlowski K. Achondroplasia and enchondromatosis in a female child. Skeletal Radiol 2003; 32:432-4. [PMID: 12774176 DOI: 10.1007/s00256-003-0644-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2002] [Revised: 03/07/2003] [Accepted: 03/11/2003] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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We present a girl with achondroplasia and enchondromatosis. Coexistence of these two disorders has, to the best of our knowledge, not been reported previously.
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Maclean K, Ambler G, Flaherty M, Kozlowski K, Adès LC. A variant microcephalic osteodysplastic slender-bone disorder with growth hormone deficiency and a pigmentary retinopathy. Clin Dysmorphol 2002; 11:255-60. [PMID: 12401990 DOI: 10.1097/00019605-200210000-00005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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We present the case of a 3-year-old boy with post-natal growth failure, microcephaly, developmental delay, facial dysmorphism, an evolving pigmentary retinopathy, pituitary hypoplasia, micropenis, and growth hormone (GH) deficiency. He has a microcephalic osteodysplastic slender-bone disorder with disharmonic delayed osseous maturation, most closely resembling patients with microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type II (MOPD II). Intrauterine growth retardation, a universal finding in the MOPD II, was absent in our patient.
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- K Maclean
- Department of Clinical Genetics, The Childrens' Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia
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Wojcicki J, Kozlowski K, Drozdzik M, Wojcicki M. Comparison of MEGX (monoethylglycinexylidide) and antipyrine tests in patients with liver cirrhosis. Eur J Drug Metab Pharmacokinet 2002; 27:243-7. [PMID: 12587953 DOI: 10.1007/bf03192334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The aim of the study was to compare the feasibility of the MEGX (monoethylglycinexylidide) and antipyrine tests in reference to standard biochemical parameters used for liver assessment in cirrhotic patients. The study was carried out in 44 subjects: 14 healthy controls and 30 cirrhotic patients classified according to the Child-Pugh's score to subgroups A (n=11), B (n=12) and C (n=7). All subjects underwent two dynamic liver tests, i.e. MEGX (monoethylglycinexylidide) and antipyrine test in a crossover schedule with at least 5-day interval. For the MEGX, lidocaine was administrated intravenously, at a dose of 1 mg/kg, and blood samples for MEGX assay were collected after 15 minutes. MEGX concentrations were measured by fluorescence polarization immunoassay. The antipyrine concentrations were evaluated following a single oral administration of 1000 mg antipyrine. The blood was sampled for 24 hours after the drug administration, and antipyrine concentrations were measured spectrophotometrically. Standard biochemical parameters used for liver assessment were measured by means of routine laboratory methods. It was concluded that in patients liver with cirrhosis, liver dynamic tests were better predictors of hepatic function. The MEGX test was more feasible in clinical setting, but it was noted that antipyrine test was more sensitive in staging liver cirrhosis.
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- J Wojcicki
- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Pomeranian Academy of Medicine, Szczecin, Poland
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3-M syndrome is a rare, autosomal recessive dwarfing syndrome characterized by prenatal growth restriction, facial dysmorphism and absence of both microcephaly and mental retardation. The term 3-M syndrome originates from the common initial of the first three authors of the first report. The diagnosis is established by a combination of clinical history, clinical examination and radiographic findings. The present report shows two sisters whose facial features were slightly different from those usually reported. In addition, they presented with small nails and abnormal dermatoglyphics. The present report expands the phenotypic spectrum of 3-M syndrome.
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- I Marik
- Ambulant Centre for Defects of Locomotor, Department of Anthropology and Human Genetics, The Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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Dahlstrom JE, Arbuckle SM, Kozlowski K, Peek MJ, Thomson M, Reynolds GJ, Sillence DO. Lethal prenatal onset infantile cortical hyperostosis (Caffey disease). Pathology 2001; 33:521-5. [PMID: 11827425 DOI: 10.1080/00313020120083304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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We describe a sporadic case of lethal prenatal onset infantile cortical hyperostosis (Caffey disease), which resulted in early postnatal death at 30 weeks gestation. The mother presented with antepartum haemorrhage and preterm labour. She was found to have polyhydramnios. The infant showed extensive symmetrical diaphyseal subperiosteal cortical thickening throughout the skeleton with short extremities. Hepatomegaly and lung hypoplasia were present. Currently, in the absence of a specific marker, diagnostic ultrasound offers the only prospect of prenatal diagnosis. This diagnosis should be considered in infants with short angulated long bones, where the diaphyses are irregular and echodense, and where there is no sign of fractures.
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- J E Dahlstrom
- Department of Anatomical Pathology, The Canberra Hospital, Garran, ACT, Australia.
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Spondyloepipmetaphyseal dysplasias (SEMDS) are characterized by flattening of the vertebral bodies and epi-metaphyseal involvement of all the tubular bones. We report a 13 year-old boy with a novel variant of SEMD that presents with rhizomelic/mesomelic shortening of the extremities and normal head, hands and feet. Variable metaphyseal involvement and relatively large proximal humeral and knee epiphyses are further distinctive radiographic features in this patient.
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Priston M, Kozlowski K, Gill D, Letwin K, Buys Y, Levin AV, Walter MA, Héon E. Functional analyses of two newly identified PITX2 mutants reveal a novel molecular mechanism for Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome. Hum Mol Genet 2001; 10:1631-8. [PMID: 11487566 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/10.16.1631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The specific role of PITX2 in the pathogenesis of anterior segment dysgenesis has yet to be clearly defined. We provide here new insight into PITX2 pathogenesis through mutational and functional analyses. Three PITX2 mutations were found in a screen of 38 unrelated individuals affected with anterior segment anomalies (8%). All three mutations were found among the 21 individuals affected with Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome (ARS). We have identified two novel mutations, a valine-->leucine (V45L) missense mutation at position 45 within the PITX2 homeodomain, and a seven amino acid duplication (7aaDup) of residues 6-12 of the homeodomain. DNA-binding studies of the two mutant PITX2 proteins demonstrated a <10-fold reduction in the DNA-binding activity of the V45L mutant, and a >100-fold reduction in activity of the 7aaDup mutant. Luciferase reporter assays showed a >200% increase in PITX2 transactivation activity of the V45L mutant, while the 7aaDup mutant was unable to transactivate at detectable levels. Our analyses of the V45L PITX2 mutant reveal that the DNA-binding domain of PITX2 can influence transactivation activity independently of DNA binding. Furthermore, our findings expand the hypothesis that the amount of residual PITX2 activity underlies the variable severity of ocular phenotypes that result from PITX2 mutation. For the first time, we present evidence that increased PITX2 activity may underlie the severe ARS ocular phenotype. We conclude that increased activity of one PITX2 allele may be as physiologically disruptive as a mutation that nullifies a PITX2 allele, with either condition resulting in ARS.
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- M Priston
- Department of Ophthalmology and The Vision Science Research Program, University Health Network, The Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario M5T 2S8, Canada
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Castriota-Scanderbeg A, Dallapiccola B, Mingarelli R, Kozlowski K. Distinctive metaphyseal chondrodysplasia simulating cartilage hair hypoplasia. Am J Med Genet 2001; 99:289-93. [PMID: 11251995 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We report on a 5(1/2) year-old Italian girl with a distinctive form of metaphyseal chondrodysplasia simulating cartilage hair hypoplasia. The pattern of metaphyseal changes and the associated bony abnormalities differentiate this patient from all the recognized forms of metaphyseal chondrodysplasia.
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Kozlowski K, Posen S. Malignant hypophosphathaemic bone disease. Eur J Radiol 2001; 37:134-8. [PMID: 11223481 DOI: 10.1016/s0720-048x(00)00247-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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A case of crippling osteoporosis with muscular weakness, hypophosphatemia, hyperparathyroidism, defective skeletal calcification and cartilage destruction is reported. The patient, a male was observed from the age of 2 1/2 until his death at the age of 33 years. This bone/cartilage disease failed to respond to phosphate supplementation, parathyroidectomy and calcitriol. We believe this may represent a hitherto undescribed entity.
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- K Kozlowski
- Department of Radiology, Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney, Australia
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The cases of two sisters with severe diastrophic dysplasia who showed some unusual radiographic features (kyphosis secondary to hypoplasia/dysplasia of the lumbar spine and a 'monkey wrench' appearance of the proximal femur) are reported here. Absent patellae were another feature that has not previously been reported in diastrophic dysplasia.
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- T Bieganski
- Department of Radiology, Centrum Matki Polki, Lodz, Poland
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We report a third patient, a female, with thoraco-pelvic dysostosis. This rare disorder is similar in phenotypic and radiographic appearances to thoraco-laryngo-pelvic dysplasia (Barnes syndrome). The only major difference between these two diseases is absence of laryngeal involvement in thoraco-pelvic dysplasia. They may represent two different entities or a contiguous gene syndrome.
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- I Marik
- Centre for Patients with Defects of the Locomotor System, Praha, Czech Republic
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The autosomal dominant disorders iris hypolasia (IH), iridogoniodysgenesis syndrome (IGDS) and Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome (ARS) are characterized by maldevelopment of the anterior segment of the eye associated with an increased risk of early-onset glaucoma. IH, IGDS and ARS are allelic disorders, as all three can result from mutations of the transcription factor PITX2. IH is the mildest of the three, whereas ARS exhibits the most severe ocular malformations. We hypothesize that varying amounts of residual PITX2 activity could underlie the severity of these phenotypes. Missense mutations of the PITX2 homeodomain identified in IH (Arg46Trp), IGDS (Arg31His) and ARS patients (Leu16Gln; Thr30Pro; Arg53Pro) were introduced into recombinant PITX2 cDNA by site-directed mutagenesis. PITX2 mutant proteins expressed in COS-7 cells were determined to be stable and localized to the nucleus; however, the Arg53Pro ARS mutant also displayed cytoplasmic staining. Our findings are consistent with the possibility of a novel nuclear localization signal (NLS) within helix 3 of the PITX2 homeodomain, homologous to the NLS of the related transcription factor PDX-1. Analysis of the five mutant PITX2 proteins by DNA-binding shifts and transactivation studies demonstrated reduced activity of the IH and IGDS mutant PITX2 proteins, with the IH mutant retaining the most activity in both studies, whereas the ARS mutant PITX2 proteins proved to be non-functional. In addition to providing insight into the etiological mechanism of IH, IGDS and ARS, these results are consistent with the hypothesis that mutant PITX2 proteins that retain partial function result in milder anterior segment aberrations.
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- K Kozlowski
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2H7, Canada
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Thong MK, Scherer G, Kozlowski K, Haan E, Morris L. Acampomelic campomelic dysplasia with SOX9 mutation. Am J Med Genet 2000; 93:421-5. [PMID: 10951468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2023]
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Acampomelic campomelic dysplasia is a rare clinical variant of the more commonly encountered campomelic dysplasia (CMD1), characterized by absence of long bone curvature (acampomelia). We present a patient with acampomelic CMD1 with a de novo SOX9 missense mutation and report his clinical course to age one year, thereby contributing to genotype-phenotype correlation in CMD1. 2000.
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- M K Thong
- South Australian Clinical Genetics Service, Women's and Children's Hospital, North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
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- K Kozlowski
- University of Michigan Health Systems, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the hypothesis that children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) would have more social and emotional problems than case-control classmates. METHODS Using a case-control design, children with JRA (n = 74), ages 8-14, were compared with case-control classmates (n = 74). Peer relationships, emotional well-being, and behavior, based on peer-, teacher-, parent-, and self-report scores on common measures, were compared using analysis of variance. RESULTS Relative to case-control classmates, children with JRA were similar on all measures of social functioning and behavior. Mothers reported more internalizing symptoms in the child with JRA, but child self reports and father reports showed no differences. Scores on all standardized measures were in the normal range for both the JRA and the case-control groups. CONCLUSION Children with JRA were remarkably similar to case-control children on measures of social functioning, emotional well-being, and behavior. These findings are not supportive of disability/stress models of chronic illness in childhood and suggest considerable psychological hardiness among children with JRA.
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- R B Noll
- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Ohio 45229, USA
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Metaphyseal dysplasia, type Jansen (JMD), is a rare skeletal dysplasia with characteristic radiographic abnormalities. Of the various types of metaphyseal dysplasia, JMD shows the most severe alteration in metaphyseal architecture. All of the long tubular bones, including those of the hands and feet, show metaphyseal irregularity with a fragmented appearance and slight widening. The adjacent physes are abnormally widened, while the epiphyses tend to be slightly enlarged, rounded but otherwise normal. The spine in infancy and childhood usually appears normal. This report describes a young girl with metaphyseal changes typical of JMD except for the hands and feet, which appeared normal. She also showed very unusual abnormalities of the spine. This appears, therefore, to represent a unique osteochondrodysplasia for which we propose the term spondylometaphyseal dysplasia, type Jansen.
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- J B Campbell
- Department of Radiology, Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and Women, Orlando, FL 32806, USA
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Wójcicki J, Wojciechowski G, Wójcicki M, Kostyrka R, Sterna R, Gawronska-Szklarz B, Pawlik A, Drozdzik M, Kozlowski K. Pharmacokinetics of propranolol and atenolol in patients after partial gastric resection: a comparative study. Eur J Clin Pharmacol 2000; 56:75-9. [PMID: 10853882 DOI: 10.1007/s002280050724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Partial gastric resection alters the anatomy and secretory activity of the gastrointestinal tract. It might be expected that the consequences of such changes should affect the pharmacokinetics, especially concerning the absorption of orally administered drugs. Propranolol and atenolol, as representatives of lipophilic and hydrophilic beta-adrenoreceptor antagonists, have been studied in order to define their pharmacokinetic characteristics in patients after partial gastrectomy. METHODS The study was carried out in 29 patients after gastric resection with Billroth I (B1) anastomosis and in 18 healthy volunteers as controls. Pharmacokinetics of propranolol and atenolol was investigated after a single oral dose of 80 mg and 100 mg, respectively, following a cross-over schedule. Blood samples were collected ten times during the 24 h after the drug administration. Pharmacokinetic parameters of propranolol and atenolol were calculated using a one-compartment open model with first-order absorption. RESULTS The average blood plasma concentrations of propranolol in gastrectomised patients were lower than those in controls, reaching significance between 1.5 h and 6.0 h of the observation period. Pharmacokinetic parameters of propranolol were different in subjects submitted to surgery compared with healthy persons. We observed a significant decrease in the area under the concentration-time curve (32%) and the peak plasma concentration (20%), and an increase in half-life (25%). Mean plasma concentrations and pharmacokinetic parameters of atenolol in patients following partial gastric resection were not significantly different from those in the controls. No relationship between time interval following partial gastrectomy and pharmacokinetic parameters of the investigated drugs was noted. CONCLUSION Partial gastrectomy with B1 anastomosis affects the pharmacokinetics of propranolol (lipophilic drug) but not atenolol (hydrophilic drug).
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- J Wójcicki
- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Pomeranian University School of Medicine, Szczecin, Poland
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The Jansen type of metaphyseal dysplasia is a rare disorder with significant clinical and radiographic variability. Two cases of classical Jansen disease and one with some distinctive features suggestive of the Jansen variant are reported.
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- K Kozlowski
- Department of Radiology, Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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UNLABELLED A new X-linked variant of spondylo-epimetaphyseal dysplasia with distinctive phenotype and severe mental retardation in three boys of one family is reported. The children were normal at birth. After several months of normal development progressive physical disability and slow mental deterioration were observed. Extensive biochemical tests were normal. CONCLUSION These patients represent a new form of X-linked spondylo-epimetaphyseal dysplasia.
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- T Bieganski
- Department of Radiology, Centrum Zdrowia Matki Polki, Lodz, Poland
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Kozlowski K. Radiographic documentation does not permit the diagnosis of MNS. Am J Med Genet 1999; 85:88-9. [PMID: 10377020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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Four infants with kyphomelic dysplasia ascertained from three families demonstrate variability within the syndrome. In the first family, sibling recurrence in female sibs was noted with atypical kyphomelic dysplasias, suggesting autosomal recessive inheritance. In the second family, with a male affected with the 'typical findings' of lethal kyphomelic dysplasia, diagnosis of a skeletal dysplasia was suspected at 29-30 weeks' gestation following US detection of short, bent femurs. In the third family, with a female affected, severe radiographic changes were documented at birth. The clinical course of the disease was mild with almost complete regression of the radiographic findings at the age of 7 years.
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- F Cisarik
- Department of Clinical Genetics, NsP Hospital, Zilina, Slovakia
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