Case Report
Year: 2017 | Month: May | Volume: 7 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 397-398
Complicated Pneumonia in a Case of Ataxia Telangiectasia
Nasreen Ali1, Sunil Kumar Agarwalla2, Niranjan Mohanty3, Jagatshreya Satapathy1
1Junior Resident, 2Associate Professor, 3Professor HOD,
Department of Pediatrics, M.K.C.G Medical College, Berhampur, Ganjam, Odisha-760004, India.
Corresponding Author: Nasreen Ali
ABSTRACT
Ataxia Telangiectasia (AT) is a rare autosomal recessive disease with multisystemic disorder. It is characterized by progressive neurological impairment, cerebellar ataxia, variable immunodeficiency, impaired organ maturation, x-ray hypersensitivity, ocular and cutaneous telangiectasia and predisposition to malignancy. Here we report a case of 11 year male boy who was operated for cleft palate at an age of 2 years and diagnosed with at the age of 5 years now presented with complicated pneumonia.
Key words: Ataxia telangiectasia, cleft palate, complicated pneumonia, malignancy.