X-linked inheritance of congenital cortisol and aldosterone insufficiency (adrenal hypoplasia)

Congenital adrenal hypoplasia--an X-linked disease.

Familial congenital adrenal hypoplasia.

Adrenal hypoplasia is an invariable finding in infants with anencephaly. Hypoplastic adrenal glands have been described in infancy associated with congenital hypoplasia of the pituitary gland (Mosier, 1956). S;kl (1948) was probably the first author to describe congenital adrenal hypoplasia unassociated with other congenital abnormalities, though he mentions some similar cases described by earl...

Familial congenital adrenal hypoplasia.

Congenital adrenal hypoplasia was first described by Sikl (1948). Other reports appeared, and Mitchell and Rhaney (1959) recorded the first occurrence in a male sibship and suggested a familial basis. Boyd and MacDonald (1960) reported the necropsy findings in another pair of brothers who died in the neonatal period. The following report presents two further pairs of brothers born in Scotland w...

Infantile Growth Hormone Deficiency and X- Linked Adrenal Hypoplasia Congenita.

CONTEXT X-linked adrenal hypoplasia congenita (AHC) is a rare but important cause of primary adrenal insufficiency and can be associated with significant morbidity and mortality. AHC is caused by mutations within the NROB1 gene that codes for the DAX-1 protein, an orphan nuclear receptor essential for the development of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. Affected individuals typically pre...

X-linked congenital adrenal hypoplasia associated with hypospadias in an Egyptian baby: a case report

UNLABELLED INTRODUCTION X-linked congenital adrenal hypoplasia is a rare developmental disorder of the human adrenal cortex and is caused by deletion or mutation of the dosage-sensitive sex reversal adrenal hypoplasia congenita critical region of the X chromosome, gene 1 (DAX-1) gene. Most affected children present with failure to thrive, salt wasting and hypoglycemic convulsions in the firs...