Description

Elsea and Girirajan reported the clinical features of a patient with the Smith-Magenis Syndrome (SMS) associated with mutation in the retinoic acid-induced 1 (RAI-1) gene. These were summarized from several previous reports. The authors are from the Medical College of Virginia.


 

Findings in the almost all of patients (> 90%):

(1) voice that is deep and/or hoarse (100%)

(2) variable mental retardation (100%)

(3) sleep disturbance (100%)

(4) self hugging and/or hand wringing (100%)

(5) self-injurious behaviors (100%)

(6) attention seeking (100%)

(7) onychotillomania (100%)

(8) tented upper lip

(9) broad, square face

 

Findings in most patients (> 50%):

(1) brachycephaly

(2) midface hypoplasia

(3) prognathism

(4) brachydactyly

(5) chronic ear infections

(6) obesity

(7) myopia

(8) self-biting or hand-biting

(9) head banging or face slapping

(10) speech delay

(11) motor delay

(12) hypotonia

(13) polyembolokoilamania (habit of putting foreign objects into the ear or other body orifices)

 

Findings in some patients:

(1) snyophrys (eyebrows that grow together)

(2) scoliosis

(3) strabismus

(4) seizures

 

Occasional findings:

(1) short stature

(2) hearing loss

 


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