Girls and women with Turner syndrome face a lifelong struggle with both congenital heart disease and acquired cardiovascular conditions. Bicuspid aortic valve is common, and many have left-sided heart ...

Turner syndrome is a rare genetic disorder found in some women and people assigned female at birth. It can cause short stature and a range of health issues including heart defects, learning ...

Turner syndrome can be detected if there is growth retardation, heart defects, reproductive problems and learning difficulties.

Turner syndrome is a chromosomal disorder that affects females only. Read about its causes, signs, diagnosis, treatment, and possible complications.

Turner syndrome is one of several syndromes of abnormal sex differentiation. Most females have a pair of sex chromosomes designated as XX, and most males have a pair of sex chromosomes designated as ...

SUMMARY Turner syndrome is one of the most common aneuploidies. In vitro fertilization with oocyte donation is the usual method of assisted conception, but spontaneous pregnancy can also occur.

Turner syndrome can also cause cardiovascular defects, especially defects of the aorta (the main artery pumping blood from the heart). Cardiovascular abnormalities are the leading cause of death ...

A baby with Turner syndrome is missing all of or part of the X chromosome. This only affects babies with X chromosomes and can cause growth problems and heart and ovary defects at birth.

Doctors treating babies born with Turner syndrome need to look for heart rhythm abnormalities, in addition to the usual heart problems of high blood pressure or left-sided structural heart defects ...

Advances in cardiac treatment and care over the past several decades have led to greatly improved long-term survival rates for children born with heart defects – including those with Down syndrome.

Introduction Aortic dissection occurs in individuals with fibrillin-1 mutations (Marfan syndrome), collagen mutations (Ehlers-Danlos syndrome), transforming growth factor β-receptor mutations ...

Nearly 50% of individuals with turner syndrome are born with a congenital heart defect, such as bicuspid aortic valve, coarctation of the aorta, and lengthening of the transverse aorta [9] .