Krause-Kivlin syndrome

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Krause-van Schooneveld-Kivlin syndrome is a hereditary syndrome that mainly affects the eyes, growth and development of the individual. It is also known as Krause-Kivlin syndrome or Peters-plus syndrome [1].

It inlude Peters anomaly, leukoma, central defect of Descemet's membrane, and shallow anterior chamber with synechiae between the iris and cornea) associated with short limb dwarfism and delayed mental development.

Krause-van Schooneveld-Kivlin syndrome is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).[2] This means that Krause-van Schooneveld-Kivlin syndrome, or a subtype of Krause-van Schooneveld-Kivlin syndrome, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.[3]

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  1. ^ http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/jablonski/syndromes/syndrome390.html
  2. ^ http://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/asp/diseases/diseaseinfo.asp?ID=8422
  3. ^ http://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/asp/diseases/diseases.asp

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