Clinical difficulties of diagnostics of a syndrome of Prader–Willi

  • Valentina Ivanovna Guzeva Saint-Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University
  • Lyubov Borisovna Bessonova Saint Olga Children city hospital N 4
  • Kristina Arturovna Seel Saint-Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University

Abstract

Prader–Willi’s syndrome is a genetic anomaly which often masks under cerebral spastic infantile paralysis and myopathy diagnoses. Though at careful collecting the anamnesis, attentive survey of the patient and competent genetic inspection the diagnosis usually doesn’t raise doubts.