Arterial Tortuosity Syndrome
Author(s) -
Gayathri Satish,
Sheela Nampoothiri,
Mahesh Kappanayil
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.107.739839
Subject(s) - medicine , tortuosity , legend , girl , anatomy , psychology , developmental psychology , engineering , archaeology , history , geotechnical engineering , porosity
Arterial tortuosity syndrome is a recently defined rare genetic syndrome with autosomal recessive inheritance characterized by elongation, tortuosity, stenosis, and aneurysm formation of major arteries. These images are of a 1-year-old girl with arterial tortuosity syndrome. She was a first-born child of nonconsanguineous parentage and was referred with recurrent respiratory tract infections since 7 months of age. She …
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