Paget's disease of bone aka/or Osteitis deformans may cause or feature Miscellaneous syndromes Carcinogenesis Osteoporosis Pathological fracture Symptoms and Signs Angioid streaks Arthropathy Back pain Bone pain Conductive hearing loss Facies abnormality Genu varum Hypertension, systemic Kyphosis Peripheral neuropathy Sabre tibia Sensorineural hearing loss Skull bossing Biochemical abnormalities Acid phosphatase levels raised (plasma or serum) Alkaline phosphatase bone isoenzyme levels raised (plasma or serum) Hypercalciuria X-ray abnormalities Osteosclerosis Cardiac and vascular conditions Cardiac failure, high output Inflammatory conditions Osteitis may be...

cardiac malformations, mild to moderate mental retardation, cleft palate, and polydactyly. NORD Database
Synonyms of Simpson Dysmorphia Syndrome
* Bulldog Syndrome
* DGSX Golabi-Rosen Syndrome, Included
* Dysplasia Gigantism Syndrome, X-Linked
* SDYS
* SGB Syndrome
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Marfan syndrome may cause or feature Miscellaneous syndromes Hypokalaemic distal renal tubular acidosis Symptoms and Signs Arachnodactyly Enophthalmos High arched palate Lens dislocation Marfanoid habitus Micrognathia Scoliosis Tall stature Congenital conditions Retrognathia Mendelian inherited conditions Megalocornea Cardiac and vascular conditions Aneurysms Aortic valve incompetence Mitral valve incompetence Respiratory conditions Pneumothorax may be a risk factor for Congenital conditions Sinus of Valsalva aneurysm Cardiac and vascular conditions Dissecting aortic aneurysm may be associated with Autosomal dominant...

Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics

Definition Emergency surgery is non-elective surgery performed when the patient's life or well-being is in direct jeopardy. Largely performed by surgeons specializing in emergency medicine, this surgery can be conducted for many reasons but occurs most often in urgent or critical cases in response to trauma, cardiac events, poison episodes, brain... Expert

Neurofibromatosis type 1 aka/or von Recklinghausen's disease may cause or feature Carcinogenesis Lung cavity Orbital mass Phakomatosis Sakurai-Lisch nodule Symptoms and Signs Café au lait spots Cutaneous nodules Fits Gastrointestinal bleeding Hemihypertrophy Horner's syndrome Hypertension, systemic Kyphosis Megencephaly Neurofibromata Pectus excavatum Peripheral neuropathy Precocious puberty Retinal pathology Scoliosis Subcutaneous nodules Cardiac and vascular conditions Renal artery stenosis Hyperplastic conditions Hamartomatosis Psychiatric conditions Learning disability Trauma, mechanical and physical conditions Bowel obstruction may be a risk factor for Congenital conditions Neural tube defects Neoplastic conditions Astrocytoma Ependymoma Meningioma Phaeochromocytoma Malignant neoplastic...

Ellis-van Creveld syndrome aka/or Mesoectodermal dysplasia aka/or Chondroectodermal dysplasia Definition "Chondrodysplasia of long bones affecting mainly the distal ends of extremities and resulting in short-limb dwarfism, hexadactyly of the fingers and less frequently the toes; ectodermal dysplasia with nail and hair abnormalities, and congenital heart defects. Associated abnormalities may include cryptorchidism, epispadias, talipes equinovalgus, and Dandy-Walker...

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Radial clubhand is a deficiency along the preaxial or radial side of the extremity. Although considerable forearm and hand anomalies are the classic findings, proximal deficiencies also can occur throughout the arm and shoulder girdle. This article summarizes the history of radial deficiencies, lists potential etiologies, highlights relevant pathoanatomy, discusses...

"rapidly progressing disease of young children, characterized histologically by abnormal fibroblasts containing a large number of dark inclusions which fill the central part of the cytoplasm except for the juxtanuclear zone (I cells), and clinically by severe growth impairment, minimal hepatomegaly, extreme mental and motor retardation, and clear corneas; inherited...

(V) = vertebral abnormalities (A) = anal atresia (C) = cardiac (heart) defects (T) = tracheoesophageal fistula (E) = esophageal atresia (R) = renal (kidney) abnormalities (L) = limb abnormalities NORD Database
Synonyms of VACTERL Association
* VACTERLS association
* VATER Association
* VATERS association

Covers both primary and secondary. Synonyms and related keywords: primary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy, primary HOA, HOA, secondary HOA clubbing, Hippocratic fingers, pachydermoperiostosis, Touraine-Solente-Gole syndrome, Goldbloom's syndrome, Goldbloom syndrome, Pierre Marie-Bamberger's disease, Pierre Marie-Bamberger disease, osteoarthropathie hypertrophiante pneumique, hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy, HPOA, acropachy, digital clubbing, periostosis, intrathoracic malignancy, intrathoracic infection, cyanotic cardiac...

Osteogenesis Imperfecta: "Autosomal dominant COLLAGEN DISEASES resulting from defective biosynthesis of COLLAGEN TYPE I and characterized by brittle, osteoporotic, and easily fractured bones. It may also present with blue sclerae, loose joints, and imperfect dentin formation. There are four major types, I-IV." Source: Medical Subject Headings, 2007_2006_08_08 "autosomal dominant collagen disease resulting from...

Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
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Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics

Discussion: - comprises a group of disorders characterized by multiple punctate calcifications in infancy; - skeletal manifestations include: skin, facial, ocular, and cardiac abnormalities; - characteristic punctate calcifications are seen on x-ray at birth and usually disappear by one year of...

Although rare, benign tumors of skeletal and cardiac muscle can occur. In the heart, they may be associated with the syndrome of tuberous sclerosis in 50-86% of cases. These tumors are often considered hamartomas, similar to other tumors arising in tuberous sclerosis. In the soft tissue, these tumors are most...

Author: Gabriel I Uwaifo, MBBS, Clinical and Research Attending, MedStar Clinical Research Center, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Endocrinology, The MedStar Research Institute and the Washington Hospital Center Coauthor(s): Nicholas J Sarlis, MBBS, MD, PhD, FACP, Medical Director, Department of Oncology-US Medical Affairs Department, Sanofi-Aventis Pharmaceuticals Background McCune-Albright syndrome (MAS) is defined as...

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A case with proximal femoral focal deficiency (PFFD) and fibular A/hypoplasia (FA/H) associated with urogenital anomalies. The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics 2006, Volume 48, Number 4, Page(s) 380-382
Proximal femoral focal deficiency is a rare malformation of the lower limbs that involves the femur and acetabulum in varying degrees. It may...

Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a spectrum disorder caused by a heritable genetic defect of connective tissue that has an autosomal dominant mode of transmission. The defect itself has been isolated to FBN1 gene on chromosome 15, which codes for the connective tissue protein, fibrillin. Abnormalities in this protein cause a...

E-Medicine 2005 Necrotizing Fasciitis Author: Robert A Schwartz, MD, MPH, Professor and Head, Dermatology, Professor of Pathology, Pediatrics, Medicine, and Preventive Medicine and Community Health, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School Coauthor(s): Rajendra Kapila, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, UMDNJ, New Jersey Medical School Necrotizing fasciitis (NF) is an insidiously advancing soft tissue infection characterized...

Polychondritis aka/or Relapsing polychondritis aka/or Myenberg-Altherr-Uehlinger syndrome may cause or feature - Symptoms and Signs Arthropathy Conductive hearing loss Episcleritis Epistaxis Erythema nodosum Saddle nose deformity Stridor Uveitis Cardiac and vascular conditions Aneurysms Aortic valve incompetence Mitral valve incompetence Inflammatory conditions Scleritis Vasculitis Trauma, mechanical and physical conditions Tracheal stenosis belong(s) to the category of Autoimmune diseases Polychondritis: Definition(s) via UMLS..... "An acquired disease of unknown etiology, chronic course, and tendency to recur. It is characterized...

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From Applied Radiology Cryptococcal Osteomyelitis Posted 09/04/2003 Timothy C. Sloan, DVM, MD, Jason Hosey, MD Summary A 51-year-old man presented to the emergency department with chest pain radiating to the right shoulder. The pain had been present for several months but had become refractory to analgesics. Past medical history was...

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