THE EYES IN MONGOLISM

Mongolism

Although it is perhaps unfair to single out individual contributions from the 64 presentations, the findings of Hoard on the position of the heme iron with respect to the plane of the porphyrin ring when the iron is in the low and high spin state deserve special mention because they may be of special importance in the mechanism of hemoglobin oxygenation. The report by Nobbs on the absence of an...

Mongolism in Africans.

It has been generally believed that mongolism is very rare among peoples of negro stock, and some authorities even go so far as to deny its existence among Africans, although conceding a greatly reduced incidence compared to that of white races among negro communities living as minorities in white countries. The absence of any published reports of mongolism in Africans, and the clinical experie...

Ocular Changes in Mongolism

There is no one sign that is diagnostic or pathognomonic of Down’s syndrome; however, as a well-known popular song expresses it-“little things mean a lot.” The ocular signs in Down’s syndrome are among the most important, constituting at least a fifth of aster's 1 ten cardinal signs. The diagnosis of Down’s syndrome is made through a constellation of clinical features. Since a large portion of ...

Paraplegia and mongolism in twins.

Epilepsy in mongolism.

It is generally agreed that epilepsy is rare in mongolism. Penrose (1949) states that it is no more common in mongolism than in the general population. The older authors (Ireland, 1877 and 1898; Barr, 1904; Kelynack, 1915) do not mention epilepsy in mongolism, nor does Benda (1947) in his extensive review of the subject. This is surprising in view of the frequency of epilepsy among other groups...