Baraitser-winter syndrome: an additional Egyptian patient with skeletal anomalies, bilateral iris and choroid colobomas, retinal hypoplasia and hypoplastic scrotum

We report a 3.5 year old male child, second in order of birth of non consanguineous Egyptian parents with Baraitser-Winter syndrome [BRWS]. The patient had bilateral colobomas of the iris and choroid. Our patient had also retinal hypoplasia, which was not reported previously in this syndrome, bilateral congenital ptosis, hypertelorism, moderate mental retardation, short stature, short neck, hyperextensibility of the joints of the hands, talipes equinovarus, kyphoscoliosis and unilateral hypoplastic scrotum and testis

Cornelia-de Lange syndrome in an Egyptian infant with unusual bone deformities

We report a 4 month old female infant with the typical features of Cornelia-de Lange syndrome. What was striking in our patient was the presence of skeletal anomalies not reported previously. These included arachriodactly of both fingers and toes, flexion of thumbs at metacarpoph alengeal joints, bilateral short big toes, angulation of the lower part of the bones of right forearm and both legs with multiple skin folds. Also biochemical and X-ray evidence of rickets was detected mostly due to malnutrition and failure to thrive. The patient died at the age of 5 months with bron chopneumonia and gastroenteritis