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unusual facts about congenital



1993 shootings at CIA Headquarters

During the trial the defense introduced testimony from Dr. Richard Restak, a neurologist and also a neuropsychiatrist, that Kansi was missing tissue from his frontal lobes, a congenital defect that made it hard for him to judge the consequence of his actions.

Abbott Island

Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Maude Abbott, a Canadian authority on congenital heart disease.

Acropachy

Hereditary acropachy (also known as "isolated congenital nail clubbing") may be associated with HPGD.

Aicardi–Goutières syndrome

Aicardi–Goutières syndrome (AGS) is a congenital immune-mediated neurodevelopmental disorder caused by mutations in the SAMHD1, TREX1, or Ribonuclease H2 (RNASEH2A, RNASEH2B, RNASEH2C) genes.

Alipur Sign Language

It is spoken in the town of Alipur, Karnataka, which is a self-imposed Muslim enclave with a high degree of congenital deafness in a largely Hindu region.

Angiokeratoma

Verrucous vascular malformation (also known as "Angiokeratoma circumscriptum naeviforme") is a malformation of dermal and subcutaneous capillaries and veins, a congenital vascular malformation, which, over time, a verrucous component appears.

Atresia

Tricuspid atresia - a form of congenital heart disease whereby there is a complete absence of the tricuspid valve.

Axenfeld syndrome

Although most recognized for its correlation with the onset of glaucoma, the malformation is not limited to the eye, as Axenfeld syndrome when associated with the PITX2 genetic mutation usually presents congenital malformations of the face, teeth, and skeletal system.

Billy Cannon, Jr.

Eight games into his rookie season, he was a reserve linebacker alternating with Anthony Dickerson, when an existing congenital spinal condition was complicated after he tackled New Orleans Saints running back Wayne Wilson.

Blindness in literature

Jorge Luis Borges, who suffered from a congenital condition that caused him to become blind by middle age, discussed his condition in many autobiographical and semi-autobiographical works.

CHILD

CHILD syndrome, Congenital hemidysplasia with ichthyosiform erythroderma and limb defects (CHILD), a genetic disorder.

Cinzia Leone

In 1991 Leone suffered a congenital aneurysm of the basilar artery, undergoing a complicated surgery which had a mortality rate of 80% in Phoenix.

Congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 3 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase deficiency

3β-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase II deficient congenital adrenal hyperplasia (3β-HSD CAH) is an uncommon form of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) resulting from a mutation in the gene for one of the key enzymes in cortisol synthesis by the adrenal gland, 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (3β-HSD) type II (HSD3B2).

Congenital hepatic fibrosis

Embryogenically, congenital hepatic fibrosis is due to malformation of the duct plate, a round structure appearing in the eighth week of gestation that is formed by primitive hepatocytes, which differentiate into cholangiocytes.

Dilley sextuplets

All but one of the babies were able to go home after a little while; Julian suffered a congenital hernia, but eventually recovered following an operation.

Drosophila hybrid sterility

For instance, infections of nematodes or of arthropods, including Drosophila, species of the rickettsial bacteria Wolbachia can produce a male-specific sterility, which is congenital by means of transmission through the female line.

Effects of nuclear explosions on human health

In humans however, Microcephaly is the only proven malformation, or congenital abnormality, found in the in Utero developing Human fetuses present during the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.

Eleventh finger

Polydactyly, a congenital anomaly in humans having supernumerary fingers or toes

Pelvic digit, a congenital anomaly in humans, in which bone tissue develops in the soft tissue near the pelvis

Endothelin 3

Mutations in this gene and EDNRB have been associated with Hirschsprung disease (HSCR) and Waardenburg syndrome (WS), which are congenital disorders involving neural crest-derived cells.

Germaine Cousin

The miracles attested were cures of every kind (of blindness, congenital and resulting from disease, of hip and spinal disease), besides the multiplication of food for the distressed community of the Good Shepherd at Bourges in 1845.

Guch

GUCH, an acronym for Grown Ups with Congenital Heart defects

Joanna Jepson

Jepson was born with a congenital jaw defect - her top jaw stuck out by eight millimetres and her lower jaw hung down into her neck.

John Abbott

Abbott was also the great-grandfather of Canadian actor Christopher Plummer and the first cousin (once removed) of Maude Abbott, one of Canada's earliest female medical graduates and an expert on congenital heart disease.

Kostmann syndrome

Homozygous mutations in the HAX1 gene are associated with Kostmann disease, i.e. the "classical," autosomal recessive form of severe congenital neutropenia (SCN3).

Lymphoproliferative disorders

In children, the most common is believed to be congenital HIV infection because it is highly associated with acquired immunodeficiency, which often leads to lymphoproliferative disorders.

Mario Encarnación

Autopsy reports later showed that he had died from a congenital medical condition.

Michel A. J. Georges

He has applied his methods to the identification and mapping of genes affecting economically important single-gene (e.g. polled, double-muscling, callipyge, weaver, congenital muscular distonia), as well as complex multi-gene traits (e.g. milk and fattening yield and quality, fertility, disease resistance).

Milroy Paul

Paul was the first Ceylonese to deliver the Hunterian Oration at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on three occasions - The Surgical Anatomy of the Spermatic Cord (1950), Congenital Abnormalities of the Midline Abdominal Wall (1953) and Haemorrhages from Head Injuries (1955).

Mir Qazi

During the trial the defense introduced testimony from Dr. Richard Restak a neurologist and also a neuropsychiatrist, that Kasi was missing tissue from his frontal lobes, a congenital defect that made it hard for him to judge the consequence of his actions.

Multan Institute of Cardiology

The department is doing regular cardiac catheterization for congenital lesions and has started transcatheter treatment of suitable congenital disorders like ASD, PDA, pulmonary stenosis and mitral stenosis.

Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance Research and Education Amendments of 2001

congenital, facioscapulohumeral, myotonic, oculopharyngeal, distal, and Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophies.

Ribophorin

Consequently, defects in the genes that encode these proteins may cause congenital disorders and devastating consequences; ribophorin I and II are encoded by the genes RPN1 and RPN2 respectively.

Rubella

Subsequently, ophthalmologist Norman McAllister Gregg found 78 cases of congenital cataracts in infants and 68 of them were born to mothers who had caught rubella in early pregnancy.

Sun Hudson case

Hudson gave birth to a son with an unknown father (she is said to believe his father was the Sun) on September 25, 2004, at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston, Texas, with thanatophoric dysplasia, a typically fatal form of congenital dwarfism.

Thanatos

Thanatophoric dysplasia, so named because of its lethality at birth, is the most common lethal congenital skeletal dysplasia with an estimated prevalence of one in 6,400 to one in 16,700 births.


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