Nephrocalcinosis and disordered calcium metabolism in two children with SHORT syndrome

Am J Med Genet A. 2008 May 15;146A(10):1296-8. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.32250.

Abstract

Reports of SHORT syndrome have, to date, focused on the clinical features which lie at the core of the diagnosis but there has been little by way of report of long-term outcome, either in terms of medical complications or of intellectual development. We now report two children in whom nephrocalcinosis has developed and a third, adult, with similar findings. It may be that clinicians should be looking among cases of unexplained hypercalcaemia for an alternative phenotypic presentation of this short stature syndrome.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Calcium / metabolism*
  • Child
  • Female
  • Growth Disorders / diagnosis
  • Growth Disorders / physiopathology*
  • Humans
  • Hypercalcemia / diagnosis*
  • Male
  • Metabolic Diseases / diagnosis
  • Metabolic Diseases / physiopathology*
  • Nephrocalcinosis / diagnosis*
  • Syndrome

Substances

  • Calcium