Anesthetic Management of a Patient with Coffin-Lowry Syndrome：A Case Report

Mechanical ventilation in Coffin-Lowry syndrome: a case report

We describe a 27-year-old patient with Coffin-Lowry syndrome with severe community pneumonia, septic shock and respiratory failure. We summarize both the mechanical ventilatory assistance and the hospitalization period in the intensive care unit.

Clinical Report Cardiomyopathy in Coffin–Lowry Syndrome

Jennifer J. Facher, Elizabeth J. Regier, Gretta H. Jacobs, Ernest Siwik, Jean-Pierre Delaunoy, and Nathaniel H. Robin* Center for Human Genetics, Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland Oh...

Perioperative management of a patient with Coffin–Lowry syndrome complicated by severe obesity

RATIONALE Coffin-Lowry syndrome (CLS) is a rare inherited disease with specific clinical features, such as mental retardation, facial dysmorphism, and cardiac abnormality. In particular, the characteristic facial features of CLS, including retrognathia and large tongue, are associated with difficult ventilation and/or intubation, which is a serious problem of anesthesia management. However, cas...

The Coffin-Lowry syndrome.

A female phenotype with coffin-lowry syndrome

Coffin-Lowry syndrome (CLS, MIM # 303600) is a rare X-linked semi-dominant mental retardation disorder (XLMR). It was first reported independently by Coffin et al. [1] and Lowry et al. [2] and recognized as a novel syndrome of neurocognitive impairment, growth retardation, facial dysmorphism, puffy proximal digits, tapering digits and progressive skeletal changes by Temtamy et al. [3] in 1975. ...