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Cardiologic abnormalities in Noonan syndrome: Phenotypic diagnosis and echocardiographic assessment of 118 patients FREE

Michael Burch, MB, MRCP; Michael Sharland, MB, MRCP; Elliot Shinebourne, MD, FRCP; Gillian Smith, BSc; Michael Patton, MD, FRCP; William McKenna, MD, FACC
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Address for correspondence: William McKenna, MD, Department of Cardiological Sciences, St. Georges Medical School, Blackshaw Lane, London SW17, England, United Kingdom.

J Am Coll Cardiol. 1993;22(4):1189-1192. doi:10.1016/0735-1097(93)90436-5
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  Objectives. The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence of cardiologic abnormalities in Noonan syndrome.Background. The incidence of cardiac abnormalities in Noonan syndrome remains unknown, largely because of such difficulties as assembling a substantial cohort, ensuring a correct phenotypic diagnosis and providing accurate definitions of the most frequent abnormalities—pulmonary stenosis and left ventricular hypertrophy.Methods. A cohort of 145 patients was assembled, and before cardiologic assessment two independent geneticists scrutinized the phenotype. The diagnosis was confirmed in 118 patients, and they were studied by two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography.Results. A dysplastic pulmonary valve was present in eight patients (7%) and was associated with significant stenosis in six (75%) of the eight. Significant stenosis was present in 22 (20%) of 110 patients without dysplasia. Left ventricular hypertrophy was present in 29 patients (25%) without significant pulmonary stenosis. Localized anterior septal hypertrophy was the most common pattern in 12 (41%) of 29 patients. Diffuse hypertrophy involving the entire septum and the free wall was present in nine patients (31%) and was severe (>1.7 cm) in five. Other abnormalities included secundum atrial septal defects (10%).Conclusions. The high incidence of cardiac abnormalities suggests that echocardiographic and Doppler evaluation of patients with the Noonan phenotype is important because it will aid in genetic counseling and in the assessment of the natural history of—and, ultimately, identification of the gene(s) responsible for—Noonan syndrome.

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CrossRef | PubMed
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PubMed
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CrossRef | PubMed
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CrossRef
Sharland  M, Morgan  M, Patton  MA; Photoanthropometric study of facial growth in Noonan syndrome. Am J Med Genet. 45 1993:430-436.
CrossRef | PubMed
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CrossRef | PubMed
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CrossRef | PubMed
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CrossRef | PubMed
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CrossRef | PubMed
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CrossRef | PubMed
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CrossRef | PubMed
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PubMed
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CrossRef | PubMed
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CrossRef | PubMed
Maron  BJ, Clark  CE, Henry  WL; Prevalence and characteristics of disproportionate ventricular septal thickening in patients with acquired or congenital heart disease. Circulation. 55 1977:489-496.
CrossRef | PubMed
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CrossRef | PubMed
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PubMed
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CrossRef | PubMed
Van der Hauwert  LG, Fryns  JP, Dumoulin  M, Logghe  N; Cardiovascular malformations in Turner's and Noonan's syndromes. Br Heart J. 40 1978:500-509.
CrossRef | PubMed
Roberts  WC, Honig  HS; The spectrum of cardiovascular disease in the Marfan syndrome: a clinico-morphologic study of 18 necropsy patients and comparison to 151 previously reported necropsy patients. Am Heart J. 104 1982:115-135.
CrossRef | PubMed
Sullivan  ID, Robinson  PJ, Macartney  FJ; Percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty for pulmonary valve stenosis in infants and children. Br Heart J. 54 1985:435-441.
CrossRef | PubMed
Musewe  NN, Robertson  MA, Benson  LN; The dysplastic pulmonary valve. Echocardiographic features and results of balloon dilatation. Br Heart J. 57 1987:364-370.
CrossRef | PubMed
Burch  M, Mann  J, Sharland  M, Shinebourne  E, Patten  M, McKenna  W; Myocardial disarray in Noonan syndrome. Br Heart J. 68 1992:586-588.
CrossRef | PubMed
Rosenzweig  A, Watkins  H, Hwang  DS; Preclinical diagnosis of familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy by genetic analysis of blood lymphocytes. N Engl J Med. 325 1992:1753-1760.
CrossRef
Maron  BJ, Gottdiener  JS, Epstein  SE; Patterns and significance of distribution of left ventricular hypertrophy in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Am J Cardiol. 48 1981:418-428.
CrossRef | PubMed
Savage  DD, Siedes  SF, Clark  CE; Electrocardiographic findings in ptients with obstructive and non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Circulation. 58 1978:402-408.
CrossRef | PubMed
McKenna  WJ, Deanfield  JE; Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: an important cause of sudden death. Arch Dis Child. 59 1984:971-975.
CrossRef | PubMed
Maron  BJ, Henry  WL, Clark  CE, Redwod  DR, Roberts  WC, Epstein  JE; Asymmetric septal hypertrophy in childhood. Circulation. 53 1976:9-14.
CrossRef | PubMed
Jarcho  JA, McKenna  W, Pare  JAP; Mapping a gene for familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy to chromosome 14q 1. N Engl J Med. 321 1989:1372-1378.
CrossRef | PubMed

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Mendez  HMM, Opitz  JM; Noonan syndrome: a review. Am J Med Genet. 21 1985:493-506.
CrossRef | PubMed
Allanson  JE, Noonan  syndrome; J Med Genet. 24 1987:9-13.
CrossRef | PubMed
Noonan  JA, Ehmke  DA; Associated non-cardiac malformations in children with congenital heart disease. J Pediatr. 63 1963:468-470.
Noonan  JA; Hypertelorism with Turner phenotype. A new syndrome with associated congenital heart diseuse. Am J Dis Child. 116 1968:373-380.
PubMed
Phornphutkul  C, Rosenthal  A, Nadas  AS; Cardiomyopthy in Noonan syndrome. Br Heart J. 35 1973:99-102.
CrossRef | PubMed
Hirsch  HD, Gelband  H, Garcia  O, Gottlieb  S, Tamer  DM; Rapidly progressive obstructive cardiomyopthy in infants with Noonan syndrome. Circulation. 52 1975:1161-1165.
CrossRef | PubMed
Sharland  M, Morgan  M, Smith  G, Burch  M, Patton  M; Genetic counselling in Noonan syndrome. Am J Med Genet. 43 1993:437-440.
CrossRef
Sharland  M, Morgan  M, Patton  MA; Photoanthropometric study of facial growth in Noonan syndrome. Am J Med Genet. 45 1993:430-436.
CrossRef | PubMed
Maron  BJ, Gottdiener  JS, Bonow  RD, Epstein  SE; Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with unusual locations of left ventricular hypertrophy undetectable by M mode echocardiography. Identification by wide angle two-dimensional echocardiography. Circulation. 63 1981:409-418.
CrossRef | PubMed
Shapiro  LM, McKenna  WJ; Distribution of left ventricular hypertrophy in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a two-dimensional echocardiographic study. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2 1983:437-444.
CrossRef | PubMed
Foale  R, Nihoyannopoulos  P, McKenna  W; Echocardiographic measurement of the normal adult right ventricle. Br Heart J. 56 1986:33-44.
CrossRef | PubMed
McKenna  WJ, Kleinebenne  A, Nihoyannopoulos  P, Foale  R; Echocardiographic measurement of right ventricular wall thickness in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: relation to clinical and prognostic features. J Am Coll Cardiol. 11 1988:351-358.
CrossRef | PubMed
Ichida  F, Aubert  A, Denet  B, Dumoulin  M, van der Haumart  L; Cross sectional echocardiographic assessment of great artery diameters in infants and children. Br Heart J. 58 1987:627-634.
CrossRef | PubMed
Marantz  PM, Huhta  JC, Mullins  CE; Results of balloon valvuloplasty in typical and dysplastic pulmonary valve stenosis: Doppler echocardiographic follow-up. J Am Coll Cardiol. 12 1988:476-479.
CrossRef | PubMed
Schmeeweiss  A, Blieden  LC, Shem-Tov  A, Goor  D, Milo  S, Neufeld  HN; Diagnostic angiocardiographic criteria in dysplastic stenotic pulmonic valve. Am Heart J. 106 1983:761-762.
CrossRef | PubMed
Lima  CO, Sahn  DJ, Valdez Cruz  LM; Non-invasive prediction of transvalvular pressure gradients in ptients with pulmonary stenosis by quantitative two-dimensional echocardiographic Doppler studies. Circulation. 67 1983:866-870.
CrossRef | PubMed
Houston  AB, Sheldon  CS, Simpson  IA, Doig  WB, Coleman  EN; The severity of pulmonary valve or artery obstruction in children estimated by Doppler ultrasound. Eur Heart J. 6 1985:786-790.
PubMed
Houston  AB, Simpson  IA, Sheldon  CD, Doig  WB, Coleman  EN; Doppler ultrasound in the estimation of the severity of pulmonary infundibular stenosis in infants and children. Br Heart J. 55 1986:381-385.
CrossRef | PubMed
Masura  J, Bureh  M, Deanfield  JE, Sullivan  ID; Five-year follow-up after balloon pulmonary valvotomy. J Am Coll Cardiol. 21 1993:132-137.
CrossRef | PubMed
Maron  BJ, Clark  CE, Henry  WL; Prevalence and characteristics of disproportionate ventricular septal thickening in patients with acquired or congenital heart disease. Circulation. 55 1977:489-496.
CrossRef | PubMed
McCrindle  BW, Kan  JS; Long term results after balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty. Circulation. 83 1991:1915-1922.
CrossRef | PubMed
Gilbert  BW, Pollick  C, Adelmon  AG, Wigle  ED; Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: subclassification by M mode echocardiography. Am J Cardiol. 45 1980:861-872.
CrossRef | PubMed
Morgan  JM, Coupe  MO, Honey  M, Miller  GAH; Aneurysms of the sinuses of Valsalva in Nooaan's syndrome. Eur Heart J. 10 1989:190-193.
PubMed
Shacter  N, Perloff  JK, Mulder  DG; Aortic dissection in Noonan's syndrome. Am J Cardiol. 54 1984:464-465.
CrossRef | PubMed
Van der Hauwert  LG, Fryns  JP, Dumoulin  M, Logghe  N; Cardiovascular malformations in Turner's and Noonan's syndromes. Br Heart J. 40 1978:500-509.
CrossRef | PubMed
Roberts  WC, Honig  HS; The spectrum of cardiovascular disease in the Marfan syndrome: a clinico-morphologic study of 18 necropsy patients and comparison to 151 previously reported necropsy patients. Am Heart J. 104 1982:115-135.
CrossRef | PubMed
Sullivan  ID, Robinson  PJ, Macartney  FJ; Percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty for pulmonary valve stenosis in infants and children. Br Heart J. 54 1985:435-441.
CrossRef | PubMed
Musewe  NN, Robertson  MA, Benson  LN; The dysplastic pulmonary valve. Echocardiographic features and results of balloon dilatation. Br Heart J. 57 1987:364-370.
CrossRef | PubMed
Burch  M, Mann  J, Sharland  M, Shinebourne  E, Patten  M, McKenna  W; Myocardial disarray in Noonan syndrome. Br Heart J. 68 1992:586-588.
CrossRef | PubMed
Rosenzweig  A, Watkins  H, Hwang  DS; Preclinical diagnosis of familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy by genetic analysis of blood lymphocytes. N Engl J Med. 325 1992:1753-1760.
CrossRef
Maron  BJ, Gottdiener  JS, Epstein  SE; Patterns and significance of distribution of left ventricular hypertrophy in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Am J Cardiol. 48 1981:418-428.
CrossRef | PubMed
Savage  DD, Siedes  SF, Clark  CE; Electrocardiographic findings in ptients with obstructive and non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Circulation. 58 1978:402-408.
CrossRef | PubMed
McKenna  WJ, Deanfield  JE; Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: an important cause of sudden death. Arch Dis Child. 59 1984:971-975.
CrossRef | PubMed
Maron  BJ, Henry  WL, Clark  CE, Redwod  DR, Roberts  WC, Epstein  JE; Asymmetric septal hypertrophy in childhood. Circulation. 53 1976:9-14.
CrossRef | PubMed
Jarcho  JA, McKenna  W, Pare  JAP; Mapping a gene for familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy to chromosome 14q 1. N Engl J Med. 321 1989:1372-1378.
CrossRef | PubMed

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