Meckel-Gruber Syndrome

Authors

  • Antonio César Núñez Copo Centro Municipal de Genética Médica. Santiago de Cuba
  • Margarita Arguelles Arza Centro Provincial de Genetica Medica de Santiago de Cuba.

Keywords:

Meckel-Gruber syndrome, ciliopathy, autosomal recessive, genetic counseling.

Abstract

Introduction: Meckel-Gruber's syndrome, considered a ciliopathy, is an unusual and lethal developmental anomaly, whose autosomal recessive condition favors that its risk of recurrence be raised in each gestation.

Objective: To describe the appearing of one constant triad of multiple malformations in a same family's progeny.

Case presentation: A couple's case is presented, no consanguineous, with voluntary completion of three consecutive pregnancies for the presence in its progeny of congenital defects of the central nervous system, renal dysplasia, polydactyly, diagnosed by means of a two-dimensional ultrasonography, along with other alterations of development embryo-fetal, which constitute the criteria for the clinical diagnosis of Meckel-Gruber's syndrome.

Conclusions: It is evidenced the importance of the prenatal ultrasonography in the second pregnant trimester, as not invasive diagnostic means, in the identification of the main congenital anomalies which allow us to do the clinic diagnosis of Meckel-Gruber syndrome.

 

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Author Biographies

Antonio César Núñez Copo, Centro Municipal de Genética Médica. Santiago de Cuba

Doctor en Medicina, master en Asesoramiento genetico, Especilista en primer y segundo grado en MGI, profesor auxiliar, investigador agregado.Policlinico 28 de Septeimbre, Santaigo de Cuba.

Margarita Arguelles Arza, Centro Provincial de Genetica Medica de Santiago de Cuba.

Dra. Medicina.

Especialista en Genética Clínica. MsC. Atención primaria de salud. Profesor Asistente. Centro Provincial de Genética Médica de Santiago de Cuba.

Published

2023-12-22

How to Cite

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Núñez Copo AC, Arguelles Arza M. Meckel-Gruber Syndrome. revgencom [Internet]. 2023 Dec. 22 [cited 2025 Sep. 5];14(2). Available from: https://revgenetica.sld.cu/index.php/gen/article/view/105

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Presentaciones de casos