overgrowth syndrome

overgrowth syndrome

A condition with multifocal excess growth due to pituitary overactivity with excess growth hormone; OS occurs before, acromegaly after puberty Examples Fragile X syndrome, Beckwith-Wiedemannn syndromes

overgrowth syndrome

A general term for a group of disorders of childhood physical development in which head circumference and height are larger than normal, and there is a tendency to develop malignant tumors.
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Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome (SGBS) (OMIM #312870) is an X-linked overgrowth syndrome characterised by distinctive facial features, macrosomia and multiple congenital abnormalities.
A clinical and molecular investigation of two South African families with Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome
Essentially it's an overgrowth syndrome and it means everything grows very, very quickly.
Syndrome means Nell towers over friends
Small bowel bacterial overgrowth syndrome may be an underappreciated cause of malnutrition, especially in the elderly.
Aerobic jejunal fluid bacteria in patients with gastrointestinal disorders
Candida Overgrowth Syndrome Pigment is seen in the iris as a dull brown pigment spreading from the pupil and spilling over the collarette producing a central heterochromia.
Health in your eye: understanding iridology: iridology is the science of analyzing the delicate structures of the iris of the eye. The iris reveals body constituion, inherent weaknesses, levels of health and transitions that take place in a person's body according to the way one lives
We previously have shown that fructose malabsorption is a promoting factor for small intestinal bacterial overgrowth syndrome and is associated with higher serum neopterin concentrations (19), an indicator of immune activation.
Decreased serum zinc in fructose malabsorbers
Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth syndrome, Jan Bures, Jiri Cyrany, Darina Kohoutova, Miroslav Forstl, Stanislav Rejchrt, Jaroslav Kvetina, Viktor Vorisek, Marcela Kopacova, World J Gastroenterology 2010 June 28; 16(24): 2978-2990.
Intestinal candidasis causing sub acute small bowel obstruction: a rare case
Bacterial populations contaminating the upper gut in patients with small intestinal bacterial overgrowth syndrome.
SIBO: dysbiosis has a new name
The possibility of bacterial overgrowth was considered, and routine qualitative urinary organic acid analysis (gas chromatography-mass spectrometry) (4) revealed increased excretion of lactate, 3-hydroxypropionate, phenyllactate, and 4-hydroxyphenylacetate, a pattern characteristic of bacterial overgrowth syndrome.
Rapid enantiomeric differentiation of urinary metabolites in a patient with bacterial overgrowth syndrome
Proteus syndrome is an overgrowth syndrome in which every feature of ECCL can be found; it is bilateral, asymmetric, and involves the head, trunk, and limbs.
Haberland syndrome
1,2) This is a relatively recently delineated syndrome, probably because it is so rare and overlaps with number of other asymmetric overgrowth syndromes.
Proteus syndrome
Organic acids in urine revealed a markedly elevated 4-hydroxyphenylacetic acid level; a finding that has been associated with small bowel disease and bacterial overgrowth syndromes.
Infection-associated hemophagocytic syndrome: a rare potentially fatal complication of systemic infection. Report of three cases
Leslie Biesecker, MD, is an investigator at NHGRI focusing on the molecular and clinical characterization of multiple congenital anomaly syndromes and overgrowth syndromes.
THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT and the Medicine of the Future

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