Turner syndrome, also called gonadal dysgenesis, mainly affects girls and women, occurring when a sex chromosome (the X chromosome) is completely or partially absent. It can result in a wide range of medical and developmental issues.
Turner syndrome can be detected before birth (prenatal), during infancy, or in childhood. In cases when the signs and symptoms of Turner syndrome are minor, the diagnosis may be delayed until the teen or young adult years.
Symptoms
An individual may have any combination of the following frequent Turner syndrome symptoms, but it is unlikely that they will have all of them.
- Lymphedema (swelling) of a newborn's hands and feet
- Nipples that are widely separated and have a broad chest (shield chest).
- Hairline at the back of the head is low.
- Ears that are low-set
- Sterility
- Ovaries that are rudimentary
- The gonadal streak (underdeveloped gonadal structures that later become fibrotic)
- The lack of a menstrual menstruation is known as amenorrhoea
- Obesity and weight gain
- Metacarpal IV shortened
- Little/DysplasticFingernails
- Identifying facial characteristics
- Infancy cystic hygroma caused a webbed neck.
- Aortic valve stenosis: a condition in which the aortic valve becomes obstructed
- Aortic coarctation
- Aortic bicuspid valve
- Kidney horseshoe
- Sclera, cornea, glaucoma, and other visual impairments
- Hearing loss and recurrent ear infections
- A large waist-to-hip ratio (the hips are not much bigger than the waist)
- ADHD: an abbreviation for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (problems with concentration, memory, attention with hyperactivity seen mostly in childhood and adolescence)
- Learning disability that is not verbal (problems with math, social skills, and spatial relations)
- A small lower jaw (micrognathia), cubitus valgus, soft upturned nails, palmar crease, and drooping eyelids are also possible.
Pigmented moles, hearing problems, and a high-arch palate are less prevalent (narrow maxilla). Turner syndrome manifests differently in each person affected by the disorder, hence no two people have the same symptoms.
