Pediatric Noonan Syndrome
Noonan syndrome is a genetic disorder that prevents normal growth and development.
What is Pediatric Noonan Syndrome?
Noonan syndrome is a genetic disorder that can be inherited from one or both parents. Noonan syndrome prevents normal development and causes many problems throughout a child’s body. The most common problems include heart conditions and skeletal malformations.
Risk factors
Your child is at risk for Noonan syndrome if one or both parents carry the defective gene.
What are the signs and symptoms of Pediatric Noonan Syndrome?
The most common symptoms of Noonan syndrome include:
- Bleeding disorders
- Congenital (present at birth) heart defect
- Deep groove between the nose and mouth
- Excess neck skin
- High-arched palate
- Low hairline at back of the neck
- Low set ears, rotated backward
- Scoliosis (abnormal spinal curve)
- Short neck
- Short stature
- Skeletal malformations
- Small lower jaw
- Sunken or protruding chest wall
- Wide spaced eyes
What are the causes of Pediatric Noonan Syndrome?
Noonan syndrome is a genetic disorder, meaning that a gene inherited from one or both parents is defective. During fetal development, Noonan syndrome is caused by changes in one of several dominant genes.
