Signs & Symptoms
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- Build /
Stature
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Low birth weight at full term - 4lbs, 5
ounces
- Continues to be very small - 10lbs at 6
months old
- Head
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Misshapen skull
- Microcephaly (though head size is in
proportion to body size)
- Face
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- Small, somewhat recessed
chin
- Ears
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Low set ears
- Eyes
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Clogged tear ducts
- Flattened supraorbital ridges (flat
browbone)
- Downslanting palpebral fissures
(downslanting eyes)
- Nose
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Small, upturned nose
- Mouth
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Small mouth
- Long, smooth philtrum
- Hair
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Abundant scalp hair, but very light and
very sparse eyebrows and eyelashes
- Three hair whorls
- Nail
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Hypoplastic toenails
- Neck
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Short neck
- Pelvis
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Narrow pelvis
- Abdominal
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Hypoplastic nipples (very small and
faint)
- Upper
Limb
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Tapered fingers
- Clinodactyl of 4th and 5th fingers on
both hands
- Lower
Limb
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Very small feet
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Hip dislocation/hip dysplasia
- Bilateral clubfoot (now corrected)
- Urinary
Tract / Renal Function
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Multicystic dysplastic right kidney
- Kidney reflux - left kidney
- Cardiac
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Atrial septal defect (ASD)
- Ventricular septal defect (VSD)
- Misc
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Despite all of her problems, she eats
well, sleeps well, and is a happy
baby. She has met all of her
developmental milestones so far.
- Everything on her right side is more
severely affected...her hip is worse, her
right clubfoot is worse, her right kidney
is worse than the left
Contact:
Janelle mom to Avery janelle529@hotmail.com
Any
troubles with e-mails send to amy76jo@yahoo.com
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