VACTERL Association.
Here we report a case of VACTERL ASSOCIATION in a twenty three years old married female patient primigravida with 3 months of amenorrhea admitted with history of fever and gastroenteritis along with congenital developmental defects such as scoliosis (V), small ventricular septal defect (C), right sided hemifacial dysmorphic features (right mandibular hypoplasia), small sized right sided kidney (R), bilateral hypoplastic thumb (L). For the diagnosis of VACTERL atleast three out of seven anomalies should be present while our patient had four anomalies.
Department of Medicine, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai - 400 022.
Dharmendra B
DB
Pandey
Sangeeta J
SJ
Pednekar
Swati A
SA
Chavan
Deepa
D
Korivi
Amit Kumar
AK
Shah
Uday P
UP
Kulkarni
D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000175:diagnosis*; D000568:Amenorrhea / Q000209:etiology; D001003:Anal Canal / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000473:pathology; D004452:Echocardiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D004947:Esophagus / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000473:pathology; D017880:Limb Deformities, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D011262:Pregnancy Trimester, Second; D013131:Spine / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000473:pathology; D014132:Trachea / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000473:pathology; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult