Noonan's syndrome


after Jacqueline Noonan - a paediatric cardiologist at the University of Iowa who described a series of 9 similar cases in 1962

Autosomal dominant inheritance (PTPN11 gene on Chr 12 often implicated)

Web neck, wide spaced nipples, weally low set ears - short and with pectus excavatum / carinatum

Noonan's patient (12 year old female) - Dr Peter Windross 2008

  • Heart: pulmonary valve, HOCM, ASD
  • Ptosis, low ears, small genitals (undescended tested) and mild mental retardation
  • Coagulation defects (XI, XII, VIII deficiencies)


image from wikipedia

Last modified: Monday, 15 December 2008, 09:52 AM