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syndrome

In medicine, a set of signs and symptoms that always occur together, thus characterizing a particular condition or disorder.



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[FIGURE OMITTED] A 6-year-old boy with a history of velocardiofacial syndrome and previous surgical repair of congenital cardiac defects presented to our institution for cardiac catheterization under general anesthesia.
This mutation also is responsible for the velocardiofacial syndrome (VCFS), which is associated with multiple medical and psychiatric conditions, so the test for 22q11 deletions is being used both for children who appear to have developmental or psychiatric difficulties and for those with the facial and other anomalies typical of VCFS.
Establish the level of IDD and the presence of specific behavioral phenotypes associated with repetitive behaviors--fragile-X, Lesch-Nyhan, Prader-Willi, velocardiofacial syndromes.
 
 
 
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