Fetal warfarin syndrome (FWS) or warfarin (coumadin) embryopathy is a rare condition as a result of fetal exposure to maternal ingestion of warfarin during pregnancy. A male infant, whose mother was treated with the anticoagulant (warfarin) because of a mechanical heart valve replacement after rheumatic heart disease, presented with signs of warfarin embryopathy. The facial dysmorphism included...

background: the prevalence of hip dysplasia is 1 in 1000. several pelvic osteotomy methods have been developed to prevent early osteoarthritis, such as triple osteotomy. in this study we are going to introduce our new technique that was done on 4 patients with favorable short-term results.   methods: four patients underwent triple osteotomy and fixation using a reconstruction plate and early we...

cartilage hair hypoplasia (chh), is a rare cause of metaphyseal chondrodysplasia and short stature. other features included hair abnormality, immunodeficiency, anemia, gastrointestinal disorders (hirschsprung disease, celiac, …) and increased risk of cancer. the disease is an autosomal recessive disorder and previously has not been reported in iran. we report a 9-year-old boy diagnosed as carti...

Mandibular coronoid aplasia is defined as the absence of process and hypoplasia defective or underdeveloped process. Hypoplasia mandibular condyle means that smaller than normal. Both these situations are very rare in literature. In literature, condylar usually associated with hyperplasia seen together. The case report we prepared a unilateral hypoplasia, which not syndrome, second literature t...

conclusions patients faced with isolated left ventricular apical hypoplasia should be monitored by echocardiography because of this disease’s possible progressive trend to life-threatening consequences. introduction isolated left ventricular apical hypoplasia is an unusual type of cardiomyopathy that presents with different clinical manifestations according to the age of the disease, ranging fr...

The purpose of this study was to compare treatment outcome and relapse between maxillary advancement surgery with LeFort I osteotomy and maxillary distraction osteogenesis in patients with cleft lip and palate with maxillary hypoplasia. The sample consisted of a maxillary advancement surgery with LeFort I osteotomy group (group 1, N= 14, mean age, 21.7 years) and a maxillary distraction osteoge...