OBJECTIVE To present data of cases with choanal atresia (CA) from Saudi patients, and to compare them to the data from the international literature. METHODS A retrospective analysis of the data available from the files of 37 consecutive patients with the diagnosis of CA at King Abdul-Aziz University Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia between January 1999 and December 2005. This involve...

UNLABELLED Choanal atresia is a rare disease and the incidence is 1: 5000-8000 newborns alive. It is more comom among female and usually is associated with others malformations. STUDY DESIGN clinical retrospective. When unilateral its diagnose may be postpone because its symptoms are less life threating. But when bilateral children have important respiratory insuficency. This articles will re...

UNLABELLED Paranasal sinuses development mechanisms are not well known. Nasal air flow, according to one of the proposed theories, would be fundamental to the growth and healthy development of paranasal sinuses. AIM The aim of this study was to evaluate the maxillary sinus growth and health in the presence and absence of postnasal air flow through a unique model. MATERIALS AND METHODS Retro...

Background: Thyroid dysgenesis is the most frequent cause of congenital hypothyroidism (CH), and its genetic basis is largely unknown. Hitherto, two mutations in the human thyroid transcription factor 2 (TTF-2) gene have been described in unrelated cases of CH with cleft palate, spiky hair, variable choanal atresia, and complete thyroid agenesis. Here, we describe a novel TTF-2 mutation in a fe...

Congenital choanal atresia (CCA) is the developmental failure of the nasal cavity to communicate with nasopharynx. Bilateral CCA is an acute emergency in an obligatory nasal breathing neonate. The bilateral involvement in this anomaly presents immediately after birth as respiratory distress and cyanosis, except while crying. We herein describe a newborn with bilateral CCA presenting with no dis...

how to cite this article: saeed m, haq a, qadir kh.bart’s syndrome associated corpus callosum agenesis and choanal atresia. iran j child neurol. 2014 autumn;8(4): 76-79. abstract objective bart’s syndrome is defined as congenital localized absence of skin, and associated with epidermolysis bullosa. a newborn with bart’s syndrome is reported because it is a very rare condition, especially when a...