THE AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE CONGENITAL INTRAUTERINE INFECTION-LIKE SYNDROME OF MICROCEPHALY, INTRACRANIAL CALCIFICATION, AND CNS DISEASE - REPORT OF ANOTHER BEDOUIN FAMILY
R. Aldabbous et al., THE AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE CONGENITAL INTRAUTERINE INFECTION-LIKE SYNDROME OF MICROCEPHALY, INTRACRANIAL CALCIFICATION, AND CNS DISEASE - REPORT OF ANOTHER BEDOUIN FAMILY, Clinical dysmorphology, 7(2), 1998, pp. 127-130
We describe a Bedouin family with the rare autosomal recessive infecti
on-like syndrome of microcephaly, intracranial calcification and CNS d
isease that has so far been documented in only eight families includin
g one from Kuwait. In the present family, the female proband had conge
nital microbrachycephaly, hypertonia, early-onset tonic-clonic seizure
s, a palpable liver and mild pulmonary stenosis. Follow-up examination
of the girl identified delayed developmental milestones while head CT
scan revealed partial agenesis of the corpus callosum, brain atrophy,
dilated ventricles and scattered calcific foci in the caudate nuclei,
the thalami, and the periventricular white matter. The possibility of
intrauterine TORCH infection was excluded by the negative results of
repeated immunovirology study and by the failure to recover viral incl
usions in urine cultures. The proband had three apparently affected co
usins with spasticity and CT findings of microcephaly and intracranial
calcification. Other previously documented cases with the congenital
intrauterine infection-like syndrome are reviewed. (C) Chapman & Hall
Ltd.