[Concordance of Kearns-Sayre syndrome and Klinefelter syndrome]

Monatsschr Kinderheilkd. 1988 Oct;136(10):698-700.
[Article in German]

Abstract

In the last years the Kearns-Sayre-Syndrome has been defined with the typical trias of chronic external ophthalmoplegia, pigmentary retinal dystrophy and cardiac conduction defects. Today it is no longer believed to present an entity but a variant of the multiple plussymptoms of the ophthalmoplegia-plus group. In pediatrics the existence of this clinical disorder is not yet well acknowledged. The case of a 16-year-old patient is used as an example for the impressive clinical symptoms and the involvement of several organs in this clinical disorder. The combination with a Klinefelter-Syndrome has not previously been reported.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Biopsy
  • Fluorescein Angiography
  • Humans
  • Kearns-Sayre Syndrome / complications*
  • Kearns-Sayre Syndrome / diagnosis
  • Klinefelter Syndrome / complications*
  • Klinefelter Syndrome / diagnosis
  • Male
  • Muscles / pathology
  • Ophthalmoplegia / complications*