Noonans Syndrome ?

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Saw this brought up in another thread - I've never heard of it, but, then, I've never worked in a pediatric setting.

Exactly what is it? And who does it affect?

Thanks.

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Hey, thanks - the first link didn't work, but the second did.

That is a very interesting syndrome - I believe I have seen that, but didn't know what it was called.

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, PCVICU and peds oncology.

Check this out. It's a clinical synopsis of effects.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/dispomim.cgi?id=163950

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I did research on Noonans last nite, because it sounded so familiar to me - it correlates with Turners syndrome in girls, which I am familiar with.

Thanks for the info, I just hate it when I come across something I'm not familiar with.

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, PCVICU and peds oncology.

Yeah, me too. And there's a LOT of that in peds. My daughter became a geneticist because of the interesting things I would tell her about my patients... all carefully sanitized to avoid IDing the kids, of course!

We had a little girl in the unit recently (for a prolonged stay) who has Turner's. She also had cardiomyopathy... was transplanted in December... and GERD... GT and fundo failed... and chronic lung needing CPAP for what seemed like ever. She finally was sprung on Monday... hurray! But what a little sweetie she is. I hope the rest of her life is better than the start was.

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