Abstract
A case of a 5-year-old girl is described whose clinical features included postnatal growth retardation, microcephaly and characteristic facial appearance. These are recognized as the main features of the Dubowitz syndrome. Apart from these features, our patient had recurrent infections of the sinopulmonary tract, high serum IgE levels, defective chemotaxis of polymorphonuclear cells and defective antibody response, findings characterizing the hyper-IgE syndrome. The co-existence of these two syndromes is rare and we suggest that this is the first such case in the literature.
Conclusion
Patients with the Dubowitz syndrome will require long-term follow up because there is a considerable risk for the syndrome to co-exist with primary immunodeficiency or formalignancies to develop.
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Antoniades, K., Hatzistilianou, M., Pitsavas, G. et al. Co-existence of Dubowitz and hyper-IgE syndromes: A case report. Eur J Pediatr 155, 390–392 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01955268
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