Fetal trimethadione syndrome

Introduction: Fetal trimethadione syndrome

Description of Fetal trimethadione syndrome

Fetal trimethadione syndrome (medical condition): A rare disorder caused by fetal exposure to trimethadione (anticonvulsant drug) and resulting in various physical and developemental abnormalities. See also German syndrome:
  »Introduction: German syndrome
  »Symptoms of German syndrome

Fetal trimethadione syndrome: a syndrome resulting from maternal ingestion of trimethadione during the early weeks of pregnancy and characterized by developmental delay, V-shaped eyebrows, epicanthus, low-set ears with anteriorly folded helix, palatal anomaly, and irregular teeth.
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Fetal trimethadione syndrome: A pattern of abnormalities in infants born to epileptic mothers who were treated during their pregnancies with trimethadione anticonvulsant drugs. The abnormalities include developmental delay, craniofacial dysmorphism (midfacial flattening, V-shaped eyebrows, short nose, synophrys, malformed ears, and strabismus), cardiovascular abnormalities, absent kidney and ureter, omphalocele, meningocele, and other defects.
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Fetal trimethadione syndrome: Rare Disease

Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Fetal trimethadione syndrome is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This means that Fetal trimethadione syndrome, or a subtype of Fetal trimethadione syndrome, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
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Ophanet

Ophanet, a consortium of European partners, currently defines a condition rare when if affects 1 person per 2,000. They list Fetal trimethadione syndrome as a "rare disease".

Source - Orphanet

Fetal trimethadione syndrome as a Disease

Fetal trimethadione syndrome: Another name for German syndrome (or close medical condition association).
  »Introduction: German syndrome
  »Symptoms of German syndrome

Symptoms of Fetal trimethadione syndrome (German syndrome)

Some of the symptoms of Fetal trimethadione syndrome incude:

• Mental deficiency
• Speech disorders
• Growth deficiency
• Brachycephaly
• Midfacial hypoplasia

See full list of 29 symptoms of Fetal trimethadione syndrome (German syndrome)

Terms associated with Fetal trimethadione syndrome:

Terms Similar to Fetal trimethadione syndrome:

• Paramethadione syndrome
• Tridione syndrome
• Trimethadione embryopathy
• Trimethadione syndrome
• German syndrome

Source - NIH

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