Miranda NG, Carrasco VH, Díaz GLE

Language: Spanish
References: 2
Page: 80-82
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ABSTRACT

Introduction. The Rett syndrome is a rare disorder of the neurological development of the central nervous system, like in the child neurological development characterized by a normal evolution follow by lose of voluntary skills and hand’s special movements, a slowly head and brain’s growth, difficult walking, seizures and mental retardation. This syndrome affects exclusively girls and was identified by Dr. Andreas Rett in 1966.
Case report. A 9-years old girl patient who unknowns about her disease beginning because she’s the result of the fifth birth of six, because her mother doesn’t care her, she were a prostitute, in addition the girl suffer sexual and physical attacks. She was seen in the City of Puebla in the Casa de Angeles for children with mental diseases. The patient is met since 3 years old, since this time she shows injures to herself, psychomotor and growth retard, decrease of cephalic perimeter, epilepsy since she was 6 months of age, hard control of crisis and autism behaviour; random symmetric rumble of hands, it’s necessary to hold for she doesn’t injure herself.

REFERENCES

1. Rett A. On an unusual brain atrophic syndrome with hyperammonemia in childhood. Wien Med Wochenschr 1966; 116: 723-6.

2. Hagberg B, Aicardi J, Dias K, Ramos O. A progressive syndrome of autism dementia, ataxia, and loss of purposeful hand use in girls: Rett’s syndrome: report of 35 cases. Ann Neurol 1983; 14: 471-9.