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Md Abu Bakkar Siddique
Department of Paediatric Medicine, Chittaranjan Seva Sadan College of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Child Health, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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Sudip Saha
Department of Paediatric Medicine, Chittaranjan Seva Sadan College of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Child Health, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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Kallol Bose
Department of Paediatric Medicine, Chittaranjan Seva Sadan College of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Child Health, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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Sudipta Ghorai
Department of Paediatric Medicine, Chittaranjan Seva Sadan College of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Child Health, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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Kalimuddin Khan
Department of Paediatric Medicine, Chittaranjan Seva Sadan College of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Child Health, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Abstract
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3126/jnps.v38i2.18802
We report a case of sirenomelia baby (Mermaid syndrome) born to a twenty three years old female at 37 weeks of gestation. Sirenomelia is characterized by fusion of the lower limbs with absent kidneys, absent external genitalia and other gastrointestinal defects. It results from the failure of normal vascular supply from the lower aorta in vitro, maternal Diabetes mellitus has been associated with caudal regression syndrome and sirenomelia.
Keywords: Mermaid syndrome, Sirenomelia, Caudal regression
