Hereditary Glaucoma Occurrence in Five Generations of an Edinburgh Family.

Hereditary benign Telangiectasia: Report of 6 cases in a family

Hereditary benign telangiectasia is an uncommon idiopathic skin disorder characterized by generalized telangiectases and angiomatous lesions of the skin. The diagnosis should be suspected in patients with such cutaneous lesions, positive family history, no associated bleeding problems, and no mucosal involvement. We present six cases of hereditary benign telangiectasia in three generations of o...

Autosomal dominant juvenile onset glaucoma affecting six generations in an Edinburgh family.

Hereditary Spherocytosis Unmasked by Human Parvovirus B19 Induced Aplastic Crisis in a Family

Human parvovirus (HPV) B19 induced aplastic crisis in a family leading to the diagnosis of hereditary spherocytosis (HS) is a very rare condition being barely reported in the literature. We herein report a 4-year-old girl, her brother, and their mother who all presented with progressive pallor and jaundice after a febrile illness. The HPV B19 was diagnosed using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) ...

Glaucoma and Elliptocytosis.

ONLY a few instances of genetic linkage in man have so far been established. One of them is the linkage between hereditary elliptocytosis and the Rh antigens, the genes for which, in some families at least, are both carried on the same chromosome pair (Goodall, Hendry, Lawler, and Stephen, 1953; Marshall, Bird, Bailey, and Beckner, 1954; Morton, 1956; Clark, Donohoe, Finn, McConnell, Sheppard, ...

Tonographic survey of the close relatives of patients with chronic simple glaucoma.

THAT glaucoma simplex may affect more than one member of a family is well known, but this would usually appear to occur in a sporadic fashion and have no hereditary significance. When true hereditary glaucoma occurs it is found in many members of the same family and is frequently traced over three or four generations. These families are, however, rare and have been well documented (Francois, 19...