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. 2020 Feb 5;11(1):15–23. doi: 10.1159/000506032

Table 1.

Genetic tests and clinical findings for patients with 22q11.2PDS and 22q11.2DDS

22q11.2 proximal deletion syndrome 22q11.2 distal deletion syndrome
Age 30 years 49 years
Sex F M

Genetic tests
Karyotyping 46,XX 46,XY
MLPA Deletion in LCR A–D Deletion in LCR D–F
aCGH arr 22q11.21 (18,648,866 – 21,465,659)×1
Deletion of 2.8 Mb in 22q11.21 region
Deletion of 1.8 Mb in 22q11.21q11.23 region

Clinical data
Neurodevelopment Speech delay Global developmental delay, IQ 72
Heart defects Atrial septal defect None
Skeletal defects Klippel Feil disorder, short stature None
Orofacial defects Submucous cleft palate None
Infections Chronic supurative otitis media, chronic sinusitis, keratitis, several episodes of pneumonia, pulmonary hypertension secondary to lung fibrosis, recurrent urinary tract infections Ocular HZV infection, recurrent HZV infection in left hemibody (at least 11 episodes)
Ear Bilateral conductive hearing loss Left sensorineural hearing loss
CNS Symptomatic focal epilepsy Arachnoid cyst
Endocrine Hypothyroidism, Hypogonadism Hypothyroidism
Others Hypersplenism that required surgical spleen remotion, Von Willebrand type II disease, granulomatous liver disease, epilepsy Postherpetic neuropathy, IV–VI cranial nerve paralysis

Results of genetic tests and clinical findings were obtained from medical records. aCGH, array comparative genomic hybridization; CNS, central nervous system; HZV, herpes zoster virus; LCR, low copy repeats; MLPA, multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification.