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Patau syndrome

What are the symptoms?

Patau syndrome is characterised by low birth weight, heart defects, structural eye defects, cleft lip and/or palate, meningomyelocele (a spinal defect), omphalocele (abdominal defect), abnormal genitalia, low set ears, abnormal palmar crease patterns, scalp defects, extra digits and overlapping of fingers over thumb. Between 80 per cent and 90 per cent of babies do not survive infancy and in those that do survive learning disability is present.

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Medical text written November 1991 by Contact a Family. Approved November 1991 by Professor M Patton, Professor of Medical Genetics, St Georges Hospital Medical School, London, UK and Dr J E Wraith, Consultant Paediatrician, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Manchester, UK. Last updated December 2005 by Professor I Young, Department of Clinical Genetics, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester, UK.

 

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