Background Williams syndrome, is a congenital, multisystem disorder, involving the cardiovascular, connective tissue and central nervous systems. We sought to determine long-term outcomes of these ...

Objective: The prevalence and types of various cardiovascular diseases in different age groups as well as the outcomes of cardiac surgery and other interventions were assessed in a population of 75 ...

Children who have Williams syndrome are born with it. The condition happens because genes in a small piece of chromosome 7 are missing (deleted). Some deletions are longer than others. Children with ...

Supravalvular aortic stenosis (SVAS) is the major cardiac lesion of Williams Syndrome (WS). WS also has features of mental retardation (MR), characteristic facies and variable hypercalcemia in ...

You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways. Williams syndrome is proving an interesting model for studying the molecular basis of ...

For adults with Williams syndrome who don't have Tobi's support system or online network, life can look very different. Many can struggle to make and keep friendships. Overfriendly behavior that ...

On examination, she had facial dysmorphism, hypertension and murmur. The genetic evaluation showed 7q microdeletion specific to Williams syndrome. Abdominal imaging was suggestive of nephrocalcinosis ...

The present deletion appears to extend distally beyond D7S849 and CACNL2A. This patient has the characteristic craniofacial and cardiovascular abnormalities, including supravalvular aortic stenosis, ...