Saturday 1 March 2014

Waardenburg Syndrome

Waardenburg Syndrome
Waardenburg Syndrome is a rare genetic disorder that involves deafness, facial abnormalities and pale skin, hair and eye color. The condition is usually inherited as an autosominal dominant trait. There are four types of Waardenburg Syndrome classified as Type 1, Type 2, Type 3 and Type 4, the latter 2 are rarer.


Symptoms
Symptoms includes, hearing loss, extremely pale eye color, graying of hair, wide-set eyes, slight intellectual disability, constipation, broad nasal root.

Diagnosis & Treatment

Diagnosis is done by colon biopsy, genetic testing, audiometry and bowel transit time. There is no known cure for Waardenburg Syndrome; patients are treated according to the symptoms. Hearing loss is treated as any other irreversible deafness, special diets are recommended for regular bowel movement.






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