Malouf syndrome

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Malouf syndrome (also known as "congestive cardiomyopathy-hypergonadotropic hypogonadism syndrome") is a congenital disorder that causes one or more of the following symptoms: mental retardation, ovarian dysgenesis, congestive cardiomyopathy, broad nasal base, blepharoptosis, and bone abnormalities, and occasionally marfanoid habitus (tall stature with long and thin limbs, little subcutaneous fat, arachnodactyly, joint hyperextensibility, narrow face, small chin, large testes, and hypotonia).

This disease is named for Jean Malouf, a popular 19th century sideshow performer born in Montreal, and a sufferer of this syndrome. His memoirs, I Am Jean Malouf, were published in 1904 in serial form (highly edited from the original, which proved nearly illegible) by The Columbian Monthly Miscellany.