IDIOPATHIC HYPERCALCEMIA AND SUPRAVALVULAR AORTIC STENOSIS. DOCUMENTATION OF A NEW SYNDROME

A PECULIAR facies suggesting kinship has been found in some nonfamilial cases of supravalvular aortic stenosis in childhood.1 2 3 4 5 In addition, it has been recognized that infants with idiopathic hypercalcemia have a rather characteristic "elfin" facial appearance. Recently described are a group of older children with "aortic stenosis" and an "elfin" fades. An illness during infancy in each patient was suggestive of idiopathic hypercalcemia.2 Their facies appeared identical to those of patients with supravalvular aortic stenosis described by others.1 , 3 , 4 It seems unlikely that this remarkable similarity is coincidental. Although an association between idiopathic hypercalcemia and supravalvular aortic stenosis has been alluded . . .