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Overview

The majority of affected individuals have mild or moderate hemolysis or hemolytic anemia and a known family history, making diagnosis and treatment relatively straightforward. Individuals with significant severe hemolysis may develop additional complications such as jaundice/hyperbilirubinemia, folate deficiency, or splenomegaly.

Physical Examination

  • Splenomegaly is the rule in HS. Palpable spleens have been detected in more than 75% of affected subjects. The liver is normal in size and function.
  • Other important clues are jaundice and upper right abdominal pain indicative of gallbladder disease. This is especially important if the patient has a family history of gallbladder disease.
  • Any patient who presents with profound and sudden anemia and reticulocytopenia with the aforementioned physical findings also should have HS in the differential diagnosis.

Physical Examination[edit | edit source]

  • Congenital malformations are the most common presenting features of FA.

Appearance of the Patient[edit | edit source]

  • Patients with FA usually present with hypo/hyperpigmentation, café-au-lait spots, short staure and thumb or other radial abnormalities.

Vital Signs[edit | edit source]

  • Usually normal sometime patients present with fever due to superimposed infection.

Skin[edit | edit source]

  • Skin abnormalities in Fanconi anemia can include generalized hyperpigmentation on the trunk, neck, and intertriginous areas, the aforementioned café au lait spots, and hypopigmented areas. Delicate features can also be characteristic of patients.

HEENT[edit | edit source]

  • Head and face - Microcephaly, hydrocephalus, micrognathia, peculiar face, bird face, flat head, frontal bossing, scaphocephaly, sloped forehead, choanal atresia.
  • Eyes - Small, strabismus, epicanthal folds, hypertelorism, ptosis, slanted, cataracts, astigmatism, blindness, epiphora, nystagmus, proptosis, small iris
  • Ears - Deaf (usually conductive), abnormal shape, atresia, dysplasia, low-set, large, small, infections, abnormal middle ear, absent drum, dimples, rotated, canal stenosis

Neck[edit | edit source]

  • Neck - Sprengel abnormality, short, low hairline, webbed

Lungs[edit | edit source]

  • No significant chest findings present usually.

Heart[edit | edit source]

  • No significant CVS findings present usually.

Abdomen[edit | edit source]

GI system - High-arch palate, atresia (eg, esophagus, duodenum, jejunum), imperforate anus, tracheoesophageal fistula, Meckel diverticulum, umbilical hernia, hypoplastic uvula, abnormal biliary ducts, megacolon, abdominal diastasis, Budd-Chiari syndrome

BACK

Neck - Sprengel abnormality, short, low hairline, webbed.

Spine - Spina bifida (thoracic, lumbar, cervical, occult sacral), scoliosis, abnormal ribs, sacrococcygeal sinus, Klippel-Feil syndrome, vertebral anomalies, extra vertebrae.

Genitourinary[edit | edit source]

  • Gonads may display the following abnormalities:
  • Males - Hypogenitalia, undescended testes, hypospadias, abnormal or absent testis, atrophic testes, azoospermia, phimosis, abnormal urethra, micropenis, delayed development
  • Females - Hypogenitalia; bicornuate uterus; aplasia of uterus and vagina; atresia of uterus, vagina, or ovary/ovaries

Neuromuscular[edit | edit source]

Neuromuscular findings are non significant.

Extremities[edit | edit source]

Upper limb abnormalities can include the following features:

  • Thumbs - Absent or hypoplastic, supernumerary, bifid, rudimentary, short, low set, attached by a thread, triphalangeal, tubular, stiff, hyperextensible
  • Radii - Absent or hypoplastic (only with abnormal thumbs [ie, terminal defects]), absent or weak pulse
  • Hands - Clinodactyly, hypoplastic thenar eminence, 6 fingers, absent first metacarpal, enlarged abnormal fingers, short fingers
  • Ulnae - Dysplastic

Lower limb Abnormalities can include the following features:[edit | edit source]

  • Feet - Toe syndactyly, abnormal toes, flat feet, short toes, clubfoot, 6 toes
  • Legs - Congenital hip dislocation, Perthes disease, coxa vara, abnormal femur, thigh osteoma, abnormal legs.

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