1. Turner Syndrome
Chanel Riley

2. A little history
Turner’s Syndrome was discovered by Dr. Henry Turner in 1938
Henry Turner ( )
(Massimini 2000, 145)

3. What Is Turner Syndrome???
A condition that affects only girls and women that results from a missing or incomplete sex chromosome (mayoclinic.com)

4. Three perspectives
Diagnosis
Symptoms
Treatment

7. Diagnosis 1 in every 3000 live female births
Girls with Turner Syndrome are usually diagnosed at an early age (usually at birth or at puberty).
Determined by a blood test requested by a doctor or pediatrician

8. Symptoms
Webbed neck – extra folds of the skin on the sides of the neck
Low hairline at the back of the neck
Delayed Growth – average height 4”7
(most common) (Rank & Sanger 2001)
Edema - extra fluid in the hands and feet
Drooping of the eyelids
Thyroid problems
Unusually large number of moles on the skin
Abnormally shaped and lower set ears
Abnormal bone development (especially the bones of the hands and elbows)

9. Treatment Growth Hormone Administered using an injection pen
Usually administered at an early age (around age 7)
Helps girls with TS to reach a more normal height
Promotes bone growth
It usually takes about 3-6 months to notice any change in height after the administration of growth hormone
Made in a laboratory and is identical to the same type of hormone produced by the pituitary gland

11. Treatment Estrogen Often started at around age 12 or 13
Helps start the onset of puberty
kidshealth.org

12. How Has Turner Syndrome Affected Me?

13. Three perspectives
Diagnosis
Symptoms
Treatment

14. “A person's a person, no matter how small.”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!
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15. references
Foundation, T. M. (2000). Turner's Syndrome. In K. Massimini, Genetic Disorders Sourcebook (pp ). Detroit: Fredrick G. Ruffner, Jr.
(MFMER), M. F. (2011, August 20). Turner Syndrome. Retrieved Clinic:
Ranke, M. & Sanger, P. (2001). Turner's Syndrome. Lancet, 358(9278), 309.
Foundation, T. N. (n.d.). Turner Syndrome. Retrieved March 5, 2013, from Teens Health from Nemours:
Horton Hears A Who! Quotes. (2013). Retrieved March 5, 2013, from Good Reads: