Causes of Cri-du-chat syndrome
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Cat's cry:
Medical causes
(Handbook of Signs & Symptoms (Third Edition))
Cat's cry syndrome.
A kittenlike cry begins at birth or shortly thereafter. It's accompanied by profound mental retardation, microcephaly, low birth weight, hypotonia, failure to thrive, and feeding difficulties. Typically, the neonate has a round face with wide-set eyes; strabismus; a broad-based nose with oblique or down-sloping epicanthal folds; abnormally shaped, low-set ears; and an unusually small jaw. She may also have a short neck, webbed fingers, and a simian crease. Other abnormalities may include heart defects and GI abnormalities.
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Source: Handbook of Signs & Symptoms (Third Edition), 2006
Cat's cry:
Medical causes
(Professional Guide to Signs & Symptoms (Fifth Edition))
Cri du chat syndrome
A kittenlike cry begins at birth or shortly thereafter in this disorder. It’s accompanied by profound mental retardation, microcephaly, low birth weight, hypotonia, failure to thrive, and feeding difficulties. Typically, the infant displays a round face with wide-set eyes; strabismus; a broad-based nose with oblique or down-sloping epicanthal folds; abnormally shaped, low-set ears; and an unusually small jaw. He may also have a short neck, webbed fingers, and a simian crease. Other abnormalities may include heart defects and GI abnormalities.
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Source: Professional Guide to Signs & Symptoms (Fifth Edition), 2006
Crying and Irritability:
Principal Causes of Crying and Irritability
(The Diagnostic Approach to Symptoms and Signs in Pediatrics)
- Wellchild
- Physicaldisturbance
- Psychologic disturbance
- Colic
- Ill child
- Infection
- Viral illness
- Acute otitis media
- Herpes gingivostomatitis
- Herpangina
- Gastroenteritis
- Urinary tract infection
- Meningitis
- Encephalitis
- Septicemia
- Trauma
- Fractures (skull, extremity, clavicle)
- Subdural hematoma
- Skin disorders
- Burn
- Hair tourniquet syndrome (hair wrappedaround a finger or toe)
- Gastrointestinal disorders
- Constipation
- Incarcerated inguinal hernia
- Intussusception
- Appendicitis
- Intestinal obstruction
- Gastroesophageal reflux/esophagitis
- Cardiovascular disorders
- Supraventriculartachycardia
- Central nervous system disorders
- Increasedintracranial pressure including pseudotumor cerebri
- Genitourinary disorders
- Testiculartorsion
- Eye disorders
- Corneal abrasion
- Foreign body
- Glaucoma
- Skeletal disorders
- Osteomyelitis
- Infantile cortical hyperostosis (Caffeydisease)
- Drug reaction
- DTaP immunization
- Neonatal narcotic and alcohol withdrawal
- Maternal drugs in breast milk (sympathomimetics)
- Other (sympathomimetics, antihistamines,atropinics, cocaine)
- Idiopathic
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Source: The Diagnostic Approach to Symptoms and Signs in Pediatrics, 2006
Cat's cry:
Medical causes
(Nursing: Interpreting Signs and Symptoms)
Cat's cry syndrome.A kittenlike cry begins at birth or shortly thereafter. It's accompanied by profound mental retardation, microcephaly, low birth weight, hypotonia, failure to thrive, and feeding difficulties. Typically, the neonate has a round face with wide-set eyes; strabismus; a broad-based nose with oblique or down-sloping epicanthal folds; abnormally shaped, low-set ears; and an unusually small jaw. He may also have a short neck, webbed fingers, and a simian crease. Other abnormalities may include heart defects and GI abnormalities.
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Source: Nursing: Interpreting Signs and Symptoms, 2007
Crying:
Crying - etiology
(The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult)
- The most likely cause of inconsolable crying in the 1st few months of life is, without question, infantile colic. Practitioners must be familiar with the clinical pattern of infantile colic, so that deviations are readily recognized.
- Patients’ families often suggest teething as a cause of excessive crying (as well as fever, diarrhea, rashes, etc.). Objective data do not support a strong association.
- Be careful in ascribing symptoms and signs to teething.
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Source: The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult, 2008
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