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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-4-28
pubmed:abstractText
Between 1976-1993, 302 patients were diagnosed to have Hirschsprung's disease (HD) in Hacettepe University Children's Hospital. All patients have been searched for the occurrence of associated anomalies and other parameters including 1) sex, 2) gestational age, 3) birth weight, 4) length of aganglionic segment, 5) familial occurrence, 6) consanguinity. Forty-nine of 302 patients were proved to have 83 associated congenital anomalies together with HD. Distribution of anomalies was as follows; central nervous system and special senses 28.92%, genitourinary system 26.51%, skeletal 24.09%, gastrointestinal 12.05%, cardiovascular 8.43%. In eleven patients more than one anomaly involving different systems were detected; only one of these patients was female and six of them have shown short segment disease. Down's syndrome was present in 5 patients. Female: male ratio was 1:4.2 for the whole series and 1:6 for the patients with Hirschsprung associated congenital anomalies (HACA). In the HACA group the percentage increased in favor of long-segment and extensive aganglionosis without statistical significance (p>0.05). The majority of patients were term babies and their birth weights were between 2500g < 3500g. Consanguinity was present in 36 families. No affected parents were detected but two sisters and four brothers were proved to have HD. Three pairs of twins, one of which was monozygotic, and all showing discordance were detected. There was no difference between HACA group and HD without HACA in terms of sex, birth weight, length of aganglionic segment and consanguinity. Although HD seemed to be genetically heterogeneous HACA did not have a genetically different origin from that of HD.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0939-7248
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
7
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
331-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1997
pubmed:articleTitle
Hirschsprung-associated congenital anomalies.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article