Congenital and neurocutaneous d/o's Flashcards
Causes of Megalencephaly
Category A (2)
Category B (10)
Canavan
Anatomic
- primary megalencephaly (familial trait, acondroplacia, Sotos, etc)
- Neurocutaneous disorders (NF, TS, incontinentia pigmenti, hypomelanosis of Ito, epidermal nevus syndrome)
Metabolic _M(3)_egancephaly = G(3)ot a Large Kranium
- MSUD, Metachromatic Leukodystrophy, Mucopolysaccharridoses
- Glutaric aciduria type 1, galactosemia, gangliosidosis
- Leukoencephalopathy w/ swelling and cysts
- Krabbe’s
- Canavan’s
What causes Dandy-walker malformation?
What is the effect?
Failure of foramen of Magendie to adequately open
- Leads to ballooning of roof of 4th ventricle
- aplasia of posterior cerebellar vermis
- formation of large cyst occupying majority of posterior fossa
Klippel-Feil syndrome
- What is it?
- What is it associated with?
- Congential fusion of at least 2 cervical vertebrae craniocervical skeleton
- associated with chiari malformations
What is the mechanism behind X-linked hydrocephalus?
- Stenosis of the aqueduct of Sylvius
This NADH-TR stained section below shows what?
Suggestive of what Disease?
What are the symptoms?
- neuromuscular (2)
- Dysmorphic features (4)
- Type 1 fiber predominance and atrophy of NADH-TR staining
- Congenital fiber-type disproportion myopathy
- Symptoms
- congenital / infantile hypotonia
- depressed reflexes
- dysmorphic features
- Arched palate
- contractures
- facial weakness (ptosis, disturbed ocular motility)
- scoliosis (due to axial > appendicular weakness)
Joubert Syndrome
- Inheritance
- Defect of _____
- Symptoms (8)
- Imaging
“Silly, Simple Joubert, has wobbly arms and eyes, a big forehead and a big tongue, and pants oddly” (think “brainy” from hey arnold)
- Autosomal recessive
- Defects in formation of Cilia (silly)
- Symptoms
- Early hypotonia and ataxia (“wobbly arms”)
- Developmental delay (simple)
- abnormal eye movements (wobbly eyes)
- occulomotor apraxia (wobbly eyes)
- Prominent forehead
- Breathing dysregulation (irregular panting)
- protruding tongue (may seem to be “panting”)
- “molar tooth sign” on MRI
Categories of Cortical development abnormalities (3)
- Abnormal Cell proliferation or apoptosis
- Defects in Cell migration
- Defects that occur after cell migration
Main distinguishing feature between Fukuyama type and Walker-Warburg type of muscular dystrophy
Walker-Warburg type presents with eye abnormalities such as cataracts
Ataxia Telangiectasia
- Inheritance and mutation
- symptoms
- Classic triad
- Other (4)
- Testing (4)
- Treatment (3)
“need money from the ATM? ask Pappy or MOTHer”
- Autosomal recessive mutation of ATM gene (ch11)
- Symptoms =
- Triad of
- Ataxia (initially proximal, then spreads distally)
-
Telangiectasia
- (around 2-10 years)
- Mucus (frequent sinopulmonary infections)
- Other features
- papulosquamous rash on face
- Risk of Malignancy
- Oculomotor apraxia
- Thymic Hypoplasia (due to lack of immune cells)
- Testing
- Serum AFP and CEA (often elevated)
- IgG (especially subclass 2 and 4), IgA, and IgE = low
- Consider ATM gene testing
- MRI (may show cerebellar atrophy)
- Treatment
- Agressive treatment of infections
- avoiding radiation
- screening for cancers
Genes associated with Craniosynostosis (4), their inheritance, and their associated conditions
The Crazy carnival is open! if you forget where it is, Cruise past pfeiffer airport and listen for the muenke’s. To park, twist south, and look for the Effin X”
- FGFR2 (ch10): AD
- Apert
- Pfeiffer syndrome
- Crouzon
- FGFR3: AD
- Muenke syndrome
- Crouzon with acanthosis nigrans
- TWIST1: AD
- Saethre-Chotzen
- EFNB1: X-linked
- Craniofrontonasal Syndrome
Soto’s Syndrome
- AKA
- Predominant Gene mutation and inheritance
- Symptoms (6)
(imagine a review of a poor starfleet captain).
“William Soto’s got an Ego, but he’s Not So Bright, and he’s weak and will bend or seize under pressure, cant’ make connections
- Cerebral gigantism (Ego)
- NSD1 > autosomal Dominant
- Symptoms
- Developmental delay (bright)
- Hypotonia (weak)
- Joint laxity (bend)
- Seizures
- Agenesis of corpus collosum (can’t make connections)
- _Wilm’_s tumor
What does this show?
- Aqueductal stenosis
- enlarged third ventricle
- Tonsillar herniation (chiari I)
Embryology Quick notes:
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 28
- Week 4: notorhord forms
- Week 5: neural tube closes
- Week 6: brain divided into 5 vescicles
- Week 28:
- Brain develops rapidly
- Nervous system develops enough to control some body functions
- Eyelids open and close
Causes of Neural Tube Defects (4)
- Folate deficiency (major cause)
- maternal hyperthermia
- maternal DM
- Maternal drug expsosure
- VPA
- Opiates
- Benzene
What is this?
Diastematomyelia (doubling of spinal cord)
What is this?
Porencephalic cyst
Chiari 1 versus Chiari 2 malformations
- Chiari 1 malformation
- >5 mm tonsilar hearniation and neck pain
- Headache common but can be asymptomatic
- Chiari 2
- Both cerebellum and brainstem pass through foramen Magnum
- Vermis may be present
- myelomeningocele common
Conditions associated with Chiari malformations (5)
- Hydrocephalus
- Spina bifida
- syringomyelia
- scoliosis
- tethered cord
Types of Holoprosencephaly
Holoprosencephaly:
associated conditions (7)
POOCCHES
- Pituitary dysfunction
- Optic problems
- Cyclopia
- hypotelorism
- Olfactory problems (proboscus)
- Cleft lip / single incisor
- Cholesterol biosynthesis errors
- Hydrocephalus
- Epilepsy
- Spina Bifida
CNS anomalies associated with agenesis of corpus callosum (8)
“Dandy Andy, cardi, aicardi, Middi-muscly, holo-schizenchephaly”
- Dandy walker
- Andermann syndrome (Andy)
- 15Q13 - autosomal recessive
- Sensorimotor neuropathy
- tremor
- developmental delay / ID
- Cardiac abnormalities
- Aicardi syndrome
- Agenesis of CC, epilepsy (spasms), retinal Lacunaes
- Midline defects (Middi)
- Musculoskeletal (muscly)
- Schizencephaly
- holoprosencephaly
Genetic causes of Schizencephaly (3)
- EMX1 (10q26)
- SIX3 (2p21)
- SHH (7q36)
What is this?
Agenesis of Corpus Callosum
Other associated (extra-CNS) malformations associated with schizencephaly and common cause
- Gastroschisis
- bowel atresia
- amniotic band dysruption sequence
Over half = 2/2 vascular dysruption
What is this?
Schizencephaly + polymicrogyria