Department of Endocrinology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom,
Section of Genetics and Epigenetics in Health and Disease, Genetics and Genomic Medicine Program, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health London, London, United Kingdom,
Horm Res Paediatr. 2019;92(1):64-70. doi: 10.1159/000496545. Epub 2019 Mar 15.
Initially described as an uncommon presenting feature of Sotos syndrome (SoS), over the last decades, congenital hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia (CHI) has been increasingly reported in association with this condition. The mechanism responsible for CHI in SoS is unclear. We report the case of a neonate presenting with CHI and extensive venous and arterial thrombosis associated with kidney, heart, liver, skeleton, and brain abnormalities and finally diagnosed with SoS on whole genome sequencing. Our case describes an extended phenotype associated with SoS presenting with CHI (including thrombosis and liver dysfunction) and reinforces the association of transient CHI with SoS. The case also shows that an early neonatal diagnosis of rare genetic conditions is challenging, especially in acutely unwell patients, and that in complex cases with incomplete, atypical, or overlapping phenotypes, broad genomic testing by whole exome or whole genome sequencing may be a useful diagnostic strategy.
最初被描述为 Sotos 综合征(SoS)的一种不常见表现特征,在过去几十年中,先天性高胰岛素血症性低血糖症(CHI)与这种情况的关联越来越多。SoS 中导致 CHI 的机制尚不清楚。我们报告了一例新生儿 CHI 表现,并伴有广泛的静脉和动脉血栓形成,同时伴有肾脏、心脏、肝脏、骨骼和大脑异常,最终通过全基因组测序诊断为 SoS。我们的病例描述了一种与 SoS 相关的扩展表型,表现为 CHI(包括血栓形成和肝功能障碍),并加强了 CHI 与 SoS 的短暂关联。该病例还表明,对罕见遗传疾病的早期新生儿诊断具有挑战性,尤其是在病情严重的急性患儿中,对于存在不完整、非典型或重叠表型的复杂病例,通过全外显子组或全基因组测序进行广泛的基因组检测可能是一种有用的诊断策略。