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We describe a patient with deafness, normal intellect and a unique phenotype characterized by a rigid mask-like face, narrow, upslanting palpebral fissures, flat malar bones, thick lower lip, malformed auricles, preaxial polydactyly with triphalangeal thumbs, syn-ectrodactyly of toes and first degree hypospadias.

An infant boy with asymmetric crying facies, microcephaly, developmental retardation and failure to thrive is reported. His two siblings died in the newborn period because of complex congenital heart defects. The mother and the maternal grandmother have asymmetric crying facies, microcephaly and normal intelligence. A maternal aunt has severe physical and mental retardation, facial asymmetry, microcephaly, and cleft palate. This family allows an expansion of the spectrum of malformations associated with asymmetric crying facies and suggests autosomal dominant inheritance with variable expressivity.

Two sisters with Coffin-Siris syndrome, born to healthy unrelated parents, are reported. The accurate X-ray evaluation of the two patients allows the identification of some new features and a better delineation of the radiological phenotype. Our two cases confirm the proposed autosomal recessive inheritance of the syndrome.

We describe a 3-month-old female with a de novo interstitial deletion of the long arm of chromosome 1 (1q23–25). Clinical features are failure to thrive, psychomotor retardation, cleft lip and palate, short metacarpals, metatarsals and fingers and a severe congenital heart disease. The four previously reported patients with the same deletion share with ours the distinctive pattern of anomalies of the face and limbs; therefore, it seems now possible to delineate a proximal 1q deletion syndrome.

A patient with retinitis pigmentosa, hypertension with interstitial nephropathy, short limb dwarfism with Madelung deformity of the forearms and an unclassified type of brachydactyly is described. Such bone dysplasia has never been reported to date either as a single entity or associated with renal and retinal diseases.

In 1982, Nadol & Burgess reported a new syndrome of cataract and progressive sensorineural hearing loss, inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion. Extensive histopathologic studies of the inner ear of the proband revealed severe cochleosaccular degeneration. No other sporadic or familial cases of such a genetic syndrome have subsequently been described. We report here a second family in which the syndrome of cataract and progressive sensorineural deafness is observed in eight members, and is inherited according to an autosomal dominant pattern.

Miocardiopatía dilatada; Miocardiopatía hipertrófica; Radiómica Dilated cardiomyopathy; Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; Radiomics Miocardiopatia dilatada; Miocardiopatia hipertròfica; Radiòmica Left Ventricular (LV) Non-compaction (LVNC), Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM), and Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM) share morphological and functional traits that increase the diagnosis complexity. Additional clinical information, besides imaging data such as cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR), is usually required to reach a definitive diagnosis, including electrocardiography (ECG), family history, and genetics. Alternatively, indices of hypertrabeculation have been introduced, but they require tedious and time-consuming delineations of the trabeculae on the CMR images. In this paper, we propose a radiomics approach to automatically encode differences in the underlying shape, gray-scale and textural information in the myocardium and its trabeculae, which may enhance the capacity to differentiate between these overlapping conditions. A total of 118 subjects, including 35 patients with LVNC, 25 with HCM, 37 with DCM, as well as 21 healthy volunteers (NOR), underwent CMR imaging. A comprehensive radiomics characterization was applied to LV short-axis images to quantify shape, first-order, co-occurrence matrix, run-length matrix, and local binary patterns. Conventional CMR indices (LV volumes, mass, wall thickness, LV ejection fraction—LVEF—), as well as hypertrabeculation indices by Petersen and Jacquier, were also analyzed. State-of-the-art Machine Learning (ML) models (one-vs.-rest Support Vector Machine—SVM—, Logistic Regression—LR—, and Random Forest Classifier—RF—) were used for one-vs.-rest classification tasks. The use of radiomics models for the automated diagnosis of LVNC, HCM, and DCM resulted in excellent one-vs.-rest ROC-AUC values of 0.95 while generating these results without the need for the delineation of the trabeculae. First-order and texture features resulted to be among the most discriminative features in the obtained radiomics signatures, indicating their added value for quantifying relevant tissue patterns in cardiomyopathy differential diagnosis. This publication was partially funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation euCanSHare project under grant agreement No 825903. KL received funding from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities under grant agreement RTI2018-099898-B-I00. AG has received funding from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (IJC2018-037349-I).

Gershoni-Baruch syndrome is a multiple congenital malformation complex characterized by omphalocele, diaphragmatic hernia, cardiovascular abnormalities, and radial ray defects. Autosomal recessive inheritance is suggested. We describe two additional cases from a single family (sister and brother) delivered through termination at 23 and 9 weeks of gestation, respectively. The first fetus showed a spectrum of schisis defects without any limb involvement while the second bore mainly malformations of hands and feet. The occurrence of two different syndromes in the same family is highly improbable, but, considering both malformation complexes as possible manifestations of the same disease, a diagnosis of Gershoni-Baruch syndrome appears the most reasonable. These new familial cases bring further support to the hypothesis of an autosomal recessive inheritance of this syndrome.