LEPRECHAUNISM (DONOHUES SYNDROME) - A CASE REPORT

This report describes an infant with the syndrome of multiple congenital malformations and malnutrition leading to death in early infancy, which was originally reported by Donohue and Uchida1-2 and usually refered to as leprechaunism. Aside from the classical features of the syndrome, the patient described herein had absence of the corpus collosum, hydromyelia, persistent left superior vena cava, absent innominate vein, aberrant coronary ostia, pyloric stenosis, eventration of the diaphragm, and urogenital sinus. However, other genital abnormalities were not as prominent as in previously reported cases. The difficulty in analyzing multiple anomaly syndromes, in which the etiology and genetic mode are not known, is emphasized. © 1969 The C. V. Mosby Company.