Any knowledge on Rubenstien Taybis??

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Does anyone have any knowledge on RTS? I worked in the NICU the other day and notice a baby having this on his chart. I have only ever heard of it once before in my life and it was given to my nephew as his diagnosis, but I never followed up on until now. I was wondering if there is any similiarities in Autism or some other "markers" that anyone can enlighten me on. I have to write a paper on it and the Practicals from someone else who has seen it up close or experienced it is appreciated..thanks for any input.

Specializes in NICU, Infection Control.

This is what I found when I googled. (You had misspelled it, btw.)

http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&oe=ISO-8859-1&client=pub-9350112648257122&channel=0988991160&cof=FORID:1%3BGL:1%3BS:https://allnurses.com%3BL:https://allnurses.com/images/allnurses_logo_jpg%252050%2520pix%2520high.jpg%3BLH:50%3BLBGC:FFFFFF%3BT:%230000ff%3BLC:%23000000%3BVLC:%23663399%3BDIV:%23FFCC00%3B&domains=allnurses.com&sig=NrRbS9DWpBilCd8I&flav=0000&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=Rubinstein+Taybi%27s&spell=1

None of the citings I glanced @ gave any sort of clear picture, but I found this site thru one of the listings: http://www.rubinstein-taybi.org/index.html :monkeydance: YEssss! Eureka!

You might want to look in Smith's Recognizable Malformations(http://www.amazon.com/Smiths-Recognizable-Patterns-Human-Malformation/dp/0721606156/sr=8-1/qid=1169783259/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-4791421-2517227?ie=UTF8&s=books). Also, ask the docs for a reference article. Very interesting case.

Specializes in NICU.

We had a baby with this, he looked just like the picture in Smith's.

Sadly, his parents decided they didn't want a retarded child and put him in a home for handicapped children.

Seems to me that they should have allowed him to be adopted, instead.

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