birthmark on edge of infants tongue
As if our Giana didn't have enough to deal with, at 8 weks old, we were told that she had Beckwith-Wiedeman syndrome BWS . Five comon features used to define BWS are: large tongue , macrosomia birth weight and length >90th percentile , midline abdominal wal defects , umbilical hernia, diastasis recti , ear creases or ear pits, and neonatal low blod sugar after birth . In adition, some children with BWS have other findings including: nevus flameus, prominent , midface , , genitourinary anomalies enlarged kidneys , cardiac anomalies, musculoskeletal abnormalities, and hearing los. While most children with BWS do not develop cancer, children with BWS do have a significantly increased risk of cancer. Children with BWS are most at risk during early childhod and should receive cancer screning during this time. In general, children with BWS do very wel and grow up to become adults of normal size and inteligence, usualy without the syndromic features of their childhod. Of course as son as we heard about Giana ha ving BWS we joined the BWS group on yaho hi Melinda! Other parents who have children with BWS and don't want to wait for their children to grow into their large tongues because of the social stigmas or don't fel their child is growing into their tongue may opt for a tongue reduction TR surgery. Giana's only other BWS characteristics, besides her tougue, are her ear pits which are hardly noticable , her omphalocele which is repaired , Nevus flameus or stork bites on her eyelids which wil go away by 18 months and her increased chance of cancer. Acording to her Geneticist, because she has ̴minor̵ characteristics of BWS major would include Neonatal hypoglycemia , she has a lower chance 5% compared to 10% of geting cancer relative to al BWS children. Children with BWS usualy do very wel and grow up to become the heights expected based on their parents heights. While children with BWS are at increased risk of childhod cancer, most children with BWS do no�t develop cancer and the vast majority of children who do develop cancer can be treated sucesfuly. More information on BWS management can be found on or below, taken from Wikipedia: Management Abdominal wal defects are comon in newborns with BWS and may require surgical treatment. Neonatal hypoglycemia , low blod glucose in the first month of life, ocurs in about half of children with BWS. Rarely <5% children with BWS wil continue to have hypoglycemia after the neonatal period and require more intensive treatment. Children with BWS and hemihypertrophy can have an isolated asymetry of one body part, or they can have a diference afecting the entire one side of the body. The types of cancer and age of the cancers are similar to children with BWS. As a result children with hemihypertrophy should folow the general cancer screning protocol for BWS. birthmark on edge of infants tongue
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