MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia Menkes Syndrome menkes syndrome is an inherited disorder that results in problems in multiple parts of the body due to cells not having enough copper. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
Dr. Koop - Menkes Syndrome menkes syndrome is an inherited disorder that results in problems in multipleparts of the body due to cells not having enough copper. http://www.drkoop.com/ency/93/001160.html
Extractions: Causes, incidence, and risk factors: Menkes syndrome is inherited as an X-linked recessive disorder. The disorder is related to deficient levels of copper in the cells. Symptoms include progressive mental deterioration, kinked, twisted and brittle hair, and skeletal changes. Death usually occurs in the first few years of life. About 1 in 300,000 individuals are affected. * All Health Centers * Acne Addictions AIDS/HIV Alcohol Abuse Allergies Alternative Medicine Alzheimer's Arthritis Asthma Attention Deficit Disorder (ADHD) Backache Bipolar Affective Disorder Birth Control Blood Blood Pressure Bone/Joint/Tendon Bowel Brain Breast cancer Cancer Cerebral Palsy Cholesterol Cramps Crohn's Disease Cysts Dental/Oral Depression Diabetes Diet, Fitness, Looks
MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Menkes Syndrome menkes syndrome is an inherited disorder that results in problems in multipleparts of menkes syndrome is inherited as an Xlinked recessive disorder. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001160.htm
Extractions: @import url(/medlineplus/images/advanced.css); Skip navigation Other encyclopedia topics: A-Ag Ah-Ap Aq-Az B-Bk ... Z Contents of this page: Hypotonia Alternative names Return to top Steely hair disease; Menkes kinky hair syndrome; Kinky hair disease Definition Return to top Menkes syndrome is an inherited disorder that results in problems in multiple parts of the body due to cells not having enough copper. Causes, incidence, and risk factors Return to top Menkes syndrome is inherited as an X-linked recessive disorder. The disorder is related to deficient levels of copper in the cells. Symptoms include progressive mental deterioration, kinked, twisted and brittle hair, and skeletal changes. Death usually occurs in the first few years of life. About 1 in 300,000 individuals are affected. Symptoms Return to top Pudgy, rosy cheeks Lack of muscle tone, floppiness ( hypotonia Irritability Seizures Brittle, kinky hair
Extractions: Syndrome Menkes syndrome Synonyms Menkes disease Menkes kinky hair syndrome (MKHS) congenital hypocupraemia syndrome copper transport disease kinky hair syndrome (KHS) sex-linked neurodegenerative disease with monilethrix steely hair syndrome trichopoliodystrophy X-linked copper malabsorption Summary An inherited defect of intestinal copper absorption in males It is characterized by sparse, stubby, twisted, and friable, and colorless hair and irregular eyebrows associated with retarded mental and physical development, focal cerebral and cerebellar degeneration, cherubic expressionless facies, and micrognathia. The course is usually progressively fatal. Major Features Head and neck: Cherubic expressionless facies with pudgy pale cheeks, persistent wormian bones, and occasional microcephaly, frontal bossing, and skull asymmetry. Eyes: Dysplastic and pale optic disks, horizontal nystagmus, episodic rapid vertical eye movement, abnormal electroretinogram, and downslanting palpebral fissures. Nose: Long nose.
► Menkes Syndrome A medical encycopedia article on the topic menkes syndrome. http://www.umm.edu/ency/article/001160.htm
Extractions: Causes, incidence, and risk factors: Menkes syndrome is inherited as an X-linked recessive disorder. The disorder is related to deficient levels of copper availability to cells. Symptoms include progressive mental deterioration, kinked, twisted and brittle hair, as well as skeletal changes. Death usually occurs in the first few years of life. About 1 in 300,000 individuals are affected.
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Extractions: Signs and tests: There is often a history of Menkes syndrome in a male relative. Signs include slow growth in the womb, abnormally low body temperature, bleeding in the brain and abnormal appearance of the hair under the microscope. Males will have 100% of their hairs show abnormal structure but carrier-females may show only half the hairs to be abnormal.
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Extractions: Advanced Search Or click the first letter of a drug name: A B C D ... Z Injury Disease Nutrition Poison ... Hypotonia Menkes syndrome is an inherited disorder that results in problems in multiple parts of the body due to cells not having enough copper. Steely hair disease; Menkes kinky hair syndrome; Kinky hair disease Menkes syndrome is inherited as an X-linked recessive disorder. The disorder is related to deficient levels of copper in the cells. Symptoms include progressive mental deterioration, kinked, twisted and brittle hair, and skeletal changes. Death usually occurs in the first few years of life. About 1 in 300,000 individuals are affected. Pudgy, rosy cheeks
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Information About Menkes Syndrome menkes syndrome is an inherited disorder that results in problems in multiple menkes syndrome is also called Kinky Hair Disease, Menkes Kinky Hair http://www.mamashealth.com/syndrome/menkes.asp
Extractions: What is Menkes Syndrome? Menkes syndrome is an inherited disorder that results in problems in multiple parts of the body due to cells not having enough copper. Consult with your health care provider if you or your partner have a family history of Menkes syndrome and you plan to have children. A baby with this condition will often show symptoms early in infancy. Menkes syndrome is also called: Kinky Hair Disease, Menkes Kinky Hair Syndrome, Steely Hair Disease. What Causes Menkes Syndrome? Menkes syndrome is inherited as an X-linked recessive disorder. The disorder is related to deficient levels of copper in the cells. Symptoms of Menkes Syndrome? Some of the most common symptoms of Menkes syndrome are: Complications of Menkes Syndrome? The most common complications of Menkes syndrome are seizures, and abnormally light pigmentation of the skin and hair. Unfortunately, death usually occurs in the first few years of life.
Menkes Syndrome By Michel Perron menkes syndrome has been found to be a genetically inherited disorder that The mRNA in two individuals with menkes syndrome have been found by Tumer et http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~jcthomas/JCTHOMAS/1997 Case Studies/M. Perron
Extractions: Due to decreased activity of copper based enzymes several phenotypes are common in individuals with Menkes syndrome. Most notably individuals develop whitish hair due to pili torti, monilethrix and trichorrhexis nodosa. Gradual cerebral and cerebellar degredation, major seizures, aberrant tortuous arteries, skeletal abnormalities and premature death are among the most serious effects of Menkes syndrome. There is currently no adaquate treatment for this genetic disease although it has been discovered that copper histidinate injections, if administered early enough, may prevent cerebral deterioration-due to its ability to cross the blood brain barrier- and hair discoloration and abnormalities. In the case with Mertha and Eliot D. son, Rick, a clear distinct link exists between the phenotypes described above and Ricks phenotypes- white hair, brain degeneration, artery abnormalities, bending of legs bones similar to scurvy. It is also evident that this disease was inherited from the mother due to signs of unusual twisting of her hair and because of the X-linked recessive inheritance pattern.
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Extractions: Community Advisor Search Send to a friend Home Diseases, Conditions and Injuries by Michelle Badash, MS Definition Causes Risk Factors ... Organizations Menkes syndrome is an inherited genetic disorder due to an abnormal gene, ATP7A. Menkes syndrome causes impaired copper absorption. This results in arterial changes and deterioration of the brain. Menkes syndrome is rare. It occurs in 1 out of every 50,000-100,000 births. It affects primarily males. Most children born with Menkes syndrome have a life expectancy of 3-5 years. Copper proteins are necessary for the body to build bone, nerves, and other tissue. Babies with Menkes syndrome have a genetic disorder that causes copper to build up in excess amounts in the kidney, while remaining deficient in the liver and brain. This causes changes in the hair, brain, bones, liver, and arteries. A risk factor is something that increases your chances of getting a disease or condition. Risk factors for Menkes syndrome include: Children with Menkes are often born prematurely. Symptoms usually begin to show within three months after birth, and may include:
Extractions: PDF Version Search Send-to-Friend Health Library Home ... Conditions InBrief by Michelle Badash, MS Definition Causes Risk Factors ... Prevention Menkes syndrome is an inherited genetic disorder due to an abnormal gene, ATP7A. Menkes syndrome causes impaired copper absorption. This results in arterial changes and deterioration of the brain. Menkes syndrome is rare. It occurs in 1 out of every 50,000-100,000 births. It affects primarily males. Most children born with Menkes syndrome have a life expectancy of 3-5 years. Copper proteins are necessary for the body to build bone, nerves, and other tissue. Babies with Menkes syndrome have a genetic disorder that causes copper to build up in excess amounts in the kidney, while remaining deficient in the liver and brain. This causes changes in the hair, brain, bones, liver, and arteries. A risk factor is something that increases your chances of getting a disease or condition. Risk factors for Menkes syndrome include: Children with Menkes are often born prematurely. Symptoms usually begin to show within three months after birth, and may include:
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Extractions: (copper transport disorder, copper overload, kinky hair syndrome) Also See: National organizations genetic conditions and birth defects resources Menkes syndrome , National Center for Biotechnology Information, (NCBI) Genes and Disease Webpage, U.S. National Library of Medicine Menkes Disease National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke (NINDS) Menkes Disease , Online Mendelian Inheritance of Man (OMIM) Menkes Syndrome , MedicineNet Menkes Disease , eMedicine, Celia H Chang, February 2002 Incidence of Menkes disease Hum Genet. 1991 Feb;86(4):408-10. Copper And Menke's Disease , Deakin University 2001 Menkes Foundation and family memorial web page, all those moments Carter's Story links to research Menkes Disease , Neurology Web-Forum, Massachusetts General Hospital Menkes Kinky Hair Syndrome , Yahoo! Groups
...Menkes Syndrome menkes syndrome is an Xlinked recessive disorder with a defect in the intestinalabsorption of copper. The gene has been mapped to Xq13.3, distal to the X http://www.imbiomed.com/Patol/Ptv44n2/english/Zpt72-01.html
Extractions: ABSTRACT Menkes syndrome is an X-linked recessive disorder with a defect in the intestinal absorption of copper. The gene has been mapped to Xq13.3, distal to the X inactivation center. Detection of carriers is complicated due generally to the fact that they are phenotypically normal. The findings in a Mexican family in which the mother was found to be obligate carrier with two affected sons are discussed. Key words: Menkes´ syndrome, copper metabolism, detection of carriers.
Menkes Syndrome - WI, Milwaukee WI menkes syndrome Columbia St. Mary s Community Physicians of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,Ozaukee and Washington County. http://www.columbia-stmarys.org/13604.cfm
Extractions: Print Search Send to a friend Home �Diseases, Conditions and Injuries by Michelle Badash, MS Definition Causes Risk Factors ... Organizations Menkes syndrome is an inherited genetic disorder due to an abnormal gene, ATP7A. Menkes syndrome causes impaired copper absorption. This results in arterial changes and deterioration of the brain. Menkes syndrome is rare. It occurs in 1 out of every 50,000-100,000 births. It affects primarily males. Most children born with Menkes syndrome have a life expectancy of 3-5 years. Copper proteins are necessary for the body to build bone, nerves, and other tissue. Babies with Menkes syndrome have a genetic disorder that causes copper to build up in excess amounts in the kidney, while remaining deficient in the liver and brain. This causes changes in the hair, brain, bones, liver, and arteries. A risk factor is something that increases your chances of getting a disease or condition. Risk factors for Menkes syndrome include: Children with Menkes are often born prematurely. Symptoms usually begin to show within three months after birth, and may include:
