• Diseases and Symptoms,  Health Tourism and Prevention

    Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome

    The Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome is a rare genetic condition that can involve a variety of symptoms and abnormalities, and these manifestations vary from individual to individual. The disease can be inherited in an autosomal dominant manner, which means that familial clustering may occur, and such phenomena are observed in about one-quarter of the cases of the syndrome. Children born with the syndrome often come into the world with greater birth weight and height, and their growth rate is also accelerated, especially in the early years. Asymmetry of the body, resulting from greater growth on one side of the body, is also a common presentation. Additionally, organs may differ from normal size,…