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1. Down syndrome - Most common cause is Maternal nondisjunction.
-Risk factors:
Pregnancy in women over age 35
-Newborn has the distinctive physical features of trisomy 21, which
includes upward slating of the eyes.
2. Down with Down syndrome is
syndrome is
characterized 6. What are the fea- tures of Turn-
by distinctive
characteristic
s
3. Physical exam
re- veals a
murmur and
an echocar-
diogram con-
firms a
ventricu- lar
septal defect
4. Young
children with
Down syn-
drome are at
higher risk for
de- veloping
5. Testing to
miti- gate the
possibil- ity of
having a child
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nasal bridge, epicanthal -Short-stature female individual
folds, protruding tongue, and
low-set ears.
Down syndrome is the
genetic factor.
Leukemia
Prenatal blood tests.
-The features include short
stature, widely spaced
nipples, reduced carrying
angle at the elbow, and
sparse body hair.
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er syndrome dis- Characterized by short stature, female genitalia, webbed neck, shield like
ease? chest with underdeveloped breasts and widely spaced nipples, and
imperfectly devel- oped ovaries.
7. Tuner syndrome - Karyotype that reveals an absent homologous X chromosome with
only a single X chromosome present.
-A condition with the presence of a single X chromosome and no
homologous X or Y chromosome, so
the individual has a total of 45 chromosomes.
8. What is the A continuous loss of
most common blood. GI bleed
cause of Iron
Deficiency
anemia (IDA)?
Iron replacement therapy is required and very
9. What is the
ettective. Initial doses are 150 mg to 200 mg/day
treat- ment of
Iron and are continued until the serum ferritin level
Defirnciency reaches 50 mg/L.
ane- mia?
10. Iron deficiency - Diagnosed with anemia secondary to insuflcient erythropoiesis.
-Reason that toddler brought to the clinic because of weakness, slow
physical growth, and developmental delays. the
only food he will consume is cows milk.
-As many as one-third of infants with severe iron deficiency anemia
have chronic intestinal blood loss induced by exposure to a heat-labile
protein in cows milk.
Such exposure causes an inflammatory
gastrointestinal reaction that damages the mucosa and results in dittuse
hemor- rhage.
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11. Characteristics -It is most common between the ages of 6 months and 2 years
of iron
-It may be related to socioeconomic factors
deficiency
-It is diflcult to diagnose in early stages
anemia
include: