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Noonan syndrome – then and now

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Jacqueline Noonan
Jacqueline Noonan*
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Department of Pediatrics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA
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Jacqueline Noonan, M.D., Department of Pediatrics, University of Kentucky, College of Medicine, Lexington, KY 40536–00298, USA. Tel: 606 323 5494; Fax: 606 323 3499; E-mail: [email protected]
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The report by Danetz, Donofrio and Embrey1 provides an interesting long term follow-up on the first patient diagnosed by me with what is now known as Noonan syndrome. In 1960, when this patient was seen, cardiac ultrasound was unavailable and left-sided cardiac catheterization uncommon. He had severe pulmonary stenosis, and did well following surgery. Unfortunately, his follow-up was not adequate and left-sided obstruction was not recognized until he became symptomatic some thirty years later. Early reports stressed the dysplastic pulmonary valve, with pulmonary stenosis as a common finding.2 By 1972, the report of Ehlers et al.3 brought attention to the left-sided involvement in the Turner phenotype.

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Cardiology in the Young , Volume 9 , Issue 6 , November 1999 , pp. 545 - 546
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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