Frontometaphyseal Dysplasia

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Classification according to ICD-10
Q78.5 Metaphyseal dysplasia
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019)

The Frontometaphysäre dysplasia ( FMD ) is a to the Oto-palato-digital syndromes associated congenital skeletal dysplasia with typical changes on the forehead and the metaphyses of the long bones .

Synonyms are: fronto-metaphyseal dysplasia; FMD ; Gorlin-Cohen Syndrome

The name refers to the first authors of the first description from 1969 by the American human geneticist Robert James Gorlin (Jan. 11, 1923-29. Aug. 2006) and the pediatrician Michael M. Cohen .

distribution

The frequency is given as less than 1 in 1,000,000, about 30 patients have been described so far. The inheritance is X-linked recessive , heterozygous women are only slightly affected.

root cause

The disease is based on mutations in the FLNA gene at gene location Xq28, which codes for filamin A, a protein of the cytoskeleton .

These are other diseases with mutations in this gene

Clinical manifestations

Clinical criteria are:

diagnosis

In the X-ray image characteristic changes are:

therapy

An operation on the skull is possible in some cases. When anesthesia problems with the airways occur.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Bernfried Leiber (founder): The clinical syndromes. Syndromes, sequences and symptom complexes . Ed .: G. Burg, J. Kunze, D. Pongratz, PG Scheurlen, A. Schinzel, J. Spranger. 7., completely reworked. Edition. tape 2 : symptoms . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich et al. 1990, ISBN 3-541-01727-9 .
  2. a b c d Frontometaphyseal dysplasia. In: Orphanet (Rare Disease Database).
  3. ^ RJ Gorlin, MM Cohen: Frontometaphyseal dysplasia. A new syndrome. In: American Journal of Diseases of Children (1960). Vol. 118, No. 3, September 1969, pp. 487-494, PMID 5807657 .
  4. Frontometaphyseal dysplasia.  In: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man . (English)
  5. Oto-palato-digital syndrome type 1. In: Orphanet (database for rare diseases).
  6. Oto-palato-digital syndrome type 2. In: Orphanet (database for rare diseases).
  7. A. Ganigara, M. Nishtala, YR Chandrika, KR Chandrakala: Airway management of a child with frontometaphyseal dysplasia (Gorlin Cohen syndrome). In: Journal of anaesthesiology, clinical pharmacology. Vol. 30, No. 2, April 2014, pp. 279-280, doi: 10.4103 / 0970-9185.130100 , PMID 24803775 , PMC 4009657 (free full text).