turner syndrome is a sex-chromosome disorder occurring in one out of 2500 female births and characterized by growth retardation, gonadal dysgenesis and cardiovascular anomalies. the 45, xo karyotype is the most frequent type of this disease. herein, we report on a 6-year-old girl with turner syndrome and 45, xo karyotype presenting with short stature. she had dextrocardia and hiatal hernia. to ...

introduction women with mosaic turner syndrome (ts) bearing the presence of y chromosome material or with complete androgen insensitivity syndrome (cais) is at risk of gonadal malignancy. two patients with characteristic features of these uncommon disorders are reported, and the surgical techniques of laparoscopic gonadectomy are reviewed and discussed. the aim of the present study is to report...

conclusions the young woman with turner syndrome have several risk factors for early coronary artery disease development. in such cases, dramatic results like sudden death or heart attack at an early age may occur in cases of insufficient follow-up and treatment. case presentation the patient, a 27-year-old female was admitted to the emergency room with chest pain at rest. she was diagnosed wit...

Turner syndrome is a sex-chromosome disorder occurring in one out of 2500 female births and characterized by growth retardation, gonadal dysgenesis and cardiovascular anomalies. The 45, XO karyotype is the most frequent type of this disease. Herein, we report on a 6-year-old girl with Turner syndrome and 45, XO karyotype presenting with short stature. She had dextrocardia and hiatal hernia. To ...

introduction turner syndrome is the most common chromosomal abnormality in females. girls with turner syndrome have an abmormal or missing x choromosme that causes short stature, ovarian failure, renovascular and cardiac anomalies. it has been shown that there is a tendency to obesity in the turner syndrome. this prospective study has been done to evaluate whether body mass index (bmi) is diffe...

turner syndrome is one of the best known chromosome anomalies in human being, by an approximate incidence of 1/2500 female at birth. the cause is a chromosomal aberration, mainly with the karyotype 45, x. ninety six patients aged 6 to 26 years with short stature were studied for chromosomal anomalies. out of these 82 were phenotypically female and 14 phenotypically male. twenty seven showed abn...

abstract  background: mosaic form of turner syndrome that represented by two or more  cell lines in an affected individual, often has limitation for detection with classical  cytogenetic methods. the present study was carried out to compare the efficiency of  interphase fluorescence in situ hybridisation (fish) and cytogenetic techniques in  detection of mosaic form of turner syndrome.  methods...

turner syndrome is one of the most common cytogeneti disorders in human with an incidence of one case in about 2500 female live born children. most patients have sexual infantilism and pregnancy is rare. bahner reported the first case of a pregnant turner patients and then the pregnancy of such patients has not been considered impossible. 9 patients out of 243 turner patients referred to karimi...