Prader-Willi Syndrome
<p>Oral health in patients with Prader-Willi syndrome: current perspectives</p>
... Consistent patient care improves the daily and medical situation of PWS patients. Controlling weight led to improvements in blood pressure and metabolic condition. Thus, assisted supervision and conservative treatments ...
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Gait initiation and termination strategies in patients with Prader-Willi syndrome
... with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) have been published so ...far. Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is the most fre- quent cause of syndromic obesity with an estimated prevalence of ...
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Oral Findings in Prader-Willi Syndrome – Case Report
... – Prader-Willi syndrome) jest zwykle spowodowany aberra- cją chromosomalną – częściową delecją długiego ramienia chromosomu 15q11-q13, pochodzącego od ...
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The FSH-inhibin axis in prader-willi syndrome: heterogeneity of gonadal dysfunction
... Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), first described in 1956 [1] is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by the absence of paternal expression of imprinted genes localized in the 15q11-q13 ...
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Fractal dimension approach in postural control of subjects with Prader-Willi Syndrome
... gross motor skills in subjects affected by various motor disorders (Cerebral Palsy, Muscular Dystrophy, spinal cord injuries), fine cognitive or learning disabilities (aut- ism, Developmental Coordination Disorder, ...
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Prader–Willi syndrome and autism spectrum disorders: an evolving story
... Abstract Prader–Willi syndrome (PWS) is well-known for its genetic and phenotypic complexities. Caused by a lack of paternally derived imprinted material on chromosome 15q11–q13, individuals with PWS ...
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Schaaf-Yang syndrome shows a Prader-Willi syndrome-like phenotype during infancy
... Chromosome 15q11-q13 contains a cluster of imprinted genes essential for normal mammalian neurodevelop- ment [1]. Paternal deletions of this region result in Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS, OMIM #176270) ...
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Repetitive activities and compulsive behaviours in autism and Prader-Willi syndrome
... disorder, and rarely (if at all) in other conditions”. According to these authors, then, a behavioural phenotype occurs only when there is a unique, one-to-one correspondence between one specific genetic disorder and ...
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Prader-Willi syndrome: A primer for clinicians
... with Prader-Willi syndrome present with neona- tal hypotonia, hypoplasia of the clitoris/labia minora in girls and small penis and undescended testis in ...
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Periodontal disease in a patient with Prader Willi syndrome: a case report
... Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a complex multi-system genetic disorder that results from abnormalities in the critical region of chromosome ...
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Hypothalamic loss of Snord116 recapitulates the hyperphagia of Prader Willi syndrome
... Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) causes severe obesity, with affected individuals displaying profound food-seeking behavior (1, 2). People affected by PWS progress along a complex natural history with ...
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ROHHAD and Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS): clinical and genetic comparison
... Superficially, one might consider that ROHHAD bears some similarity to Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), be- cause both syndromes are marked by childhood obesity [9–11]. Caused by a lack of the paternal ...
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Growth Standards of Infants With Prader-Willi Syndrome
... OBJECTIVE: To generate and report standardized growth curves for weight, length, head circumference, weight/length, and BMI for non– growth hormone–treated white infants (boys and girls) with Prader- Willi ...
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Clinical implications of gait analysis in the rehabilitation of adult patients with "Prader-Willi" Syndrome: a cross-sectional comparative study ("Prader-Willi" Syndrome vs matched obese patients and healthy subjects)
... Severe overweight is a distinctive clinical feature of Prader- Willi Syndrome (PWS). PWS is a complex multisystem disorder, representing the most common form of genetic obesity. The genetic basis is ...
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Prader-Willi Syndrome: Consensus Diagnostic Criteria
... Prader-Willi Syndrome: Consensus Diagnostic Criteria.. Vanja A.[r] ...
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Multimodal imaging in a patient with Prader–Willi syndrome
... Background: Prader–Willi syndrome (PWS) is a genetic disease caused by loss of expression of the paternally inher- ited copy of several genes on the long arm of chromosome ...
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Temper outbursts in Lowe syndrome : characteristics, sequence, environmental context and comparison to Prader–Willi syndrome
... Lowe syndrome (LS), a rare chromosomal disorder in which atypically high levels of temper outbursts have been reported (Arron, Oliver, Moss, Berg, & Burbidge, 2011; Dolinsky, Jacobs, & Knight, 2008; ...
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Endocrine manifestations and management of Prader-Willi syndrome
... PWS: PRADER-Willi syndrome; REE: Resting energy expenditure; SDS: Standard deviation score; T3: Triiodothyronine; TSH: Thyroid stimulating hormone; UPD: Uniparental ...
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Mental health problems in children with prader willi syndrome
... Background: Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) is a genetically determined neurodevelopmental disorder, which occurs in approximately one in 22000 ...
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Scoliosis in Patients With Prader-Willi Syndrome
... Our goals were to determine the prevalence and estimate the evolution of spinal deformities in patients suffering from Prader-Willi syndrome; find out which kind of spine deformity predo[r] ...
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