Home List categories Eponyms A-Z Biographies by country ... Contact Morgagni-Turner-Albright syndrome Also known as: Morgagni-Turner syndrome Schereshevskii-Turner syndrome Turner's syndrome Turner-Albright syndrome Turner-Vary syndrome Ullrich-Turner syndrome Morgagni-Shereshevskii-Turner-Albright syndrome Synonyms: Chromosome XO syndrome, congenitally absent ovaries, genital dwarfism, gonadal agenesis, gonadal dysgenesis, monosomy X syndrome, ovarian aplasia, ovarian dwarfism, ovarian short stature syndrome, primary ovarian insufficiency, pseudonuchal infantilism, pterygolymphangiectasia syndrome, pterygonuchal infantilism, rudimentary ovary syndrome, XO syndrome. Associated persons: Fuller Albright Giovanni Battista Morgagni Nikolai Adolphovich Shereshevskii Henry Hubert Turner ... Unknown Vary Description: Congenital endocrine disorder caused by failure of the ovaries to respond to pituitary hormone stimulation. Clinically there is short stature (105-130 cm); absence of secondary sexual characteristics, with infantile development of the vagina, uterus and breast; failure of sexual maturation, webbing of the neck and inconsistent cardiac defects. Intelligence may be impaired. Ocular abnormalities include strabismus and nystagmus; cardiac abnormalities are coarctation of aorta (70%), or other cardiovascular lesions almost constantly affecting left heart. Lymphedema of extremities (30-40%). Occasionally, anomalies of bone development such as protuberance of sternum, high palate, underdeveloped mandible. | |
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