International Journal of Pediatric Research Int J Pediatr Res 10.23937/2469-5769 2469-5769 ClinMed International Library Wilmington, USA 10.23937 Cutis Laxa Syndrome Rherib C 10.23937/2469-5769/1510065 18-months-old girl, the child of related parents, with no particular pathological history, presented with respiratory disorders associated with the fever and cough. On The clinical examination, the child was febrile and had respiratory distress. The respiratory rate was 60/min, heart rate 100/min, and blood pressure 100/70 mmHg, The weight and height were 10 kg (under 2DS) and 70 cm (normal for that age) respectively the facies was particularly suggestive of cutis laxa. Image Article 6 2 OPEN ACCESS 10.23937/2469-5769/1510065 Cutis Laxa Syndrome Chaima Rherib Department of Pediatrics, Rabat Children’s Hospital, Mohammed V University, Morocco Fatima Jabourik Department of Pediatrics, Rabat Children’s Hospital, Mohammed V University, Morocco Abdelali Bentahila Department of Pediatrics, Rabat Children’s Hospital, Mohammed V University, Morocco Chaima Rherib
Department of Pediatrics, Rabat Children’s Hospital, Mohamed V University, Morocco.
15 July 2020 Rherib C 2020 Cutis Laxa Syndrome Int J Pediatr Res 2020 Rherib C, et al. © This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

18-months-old girl, the child of related parents, with no particular pathological history, presented with respiratory disorders associated with the fever and cough. On The clinical examination, the child was febrile and had respiratory distress. The respiratory rate was 60/min, heart rate 100/min, and blood pressure 100/70 mmHg, The weight and height were 10 kg (under 2DS) and 70 cm (normal for that age) respectively the facies was particularly suggestive of cutis laxa: An early senile appearance with pendulous ear lobes (Figure 1) [1]; and stretchy skin that mobilizes easily and numerous flabby folds throughout the body (Figure 2). At the pleuro-pulmonary examination, the patient was polypneic with snoring rales; The cardiovascular examination had objectified a heart murmur with hepatomegaly on abdominal palpation. The chest X-ray revealed cardiomegaly with parenchymal lesions, the transthoracic echocardiography found left cavities dilated with a hypokinetic right ventricle with pulmonary hypertension.

The patient was treated with antibiotic therapy with diuretics but the evolution was marked by death in a table of heart failure.

Senile face. https://www.clinmedjournals.org/articles/ijpr/ijpr-6-065-001.jpg Flaccid skin folds. https://www.clinmedjournals.org/articles/ijpr/ijpr-6-065-002.jpg References Mohamed Hbibi, Sana Abourazzak, Mounia Idrissi, Sana Chaouki, Samir Atmani, et al. (2015) Cutis Laxa syndrome: A case report. Pan Afr Med J 20: 3.