PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | hydrocephalus |
| Phenotype | C0028326|noonan syndrome |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 22044365 | The authors describe 3 challenging cases of the abrupt onset of cm-i/syringomyelia to reveal more information on the clinical presentation and pathogenetic mechanisms of this sudden and potentially severe clinical phenomenon: a 38-year-old man experienced acute respiratory failure requiring intubation following acute decompensation of hydrocephalus associated with noonan syndrome, a 1-year-old boy had sudden hemiparesis and horner syndrome after a minor head/neck injury, and a 2.5-year-old boy presented with quickly progressing tetraplegia and dyspnea after a mild flexion and extension neck injury a few hours before. |
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