Thurner's+Syndrome

=1375284346= toc = __Definition__: = Individuals who have Turner's syndrome have a single-X pattern (X0). They are anatomically female but show stunted growth and are usually sterile. Without hormone therapy, they do not menstruate or develop breasts at puberty.1/4 have serious heart defects.These girls also show an imbalance in their cognitive skills. Turner syndrome is occurs in about one of every 2500 girls. HGD Chapter 3 p.57

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New Hope for Turner Syndrome Patients "When Lea Ann Matura, a professor of nursing at Northeastern University’s Bouvé College of Health Sciences, was conducting her postdoctoral research at a National Institutes of Health clinic in Bethesda, Md., it was not uncommon for her to encounter a 20-year-old woman with the bones of an 80-year-old, or a 30-year-old mother who herself looked like a child."

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