A Baby Girl In The Nursery Has Hypertelorism

3rd year medical students during their posting in the new born nursery examined a 2 week old baby girl with following facies:

This baby has hypertelorism which is defined by a condition in which there is an increased interpupillary distance between the two eyes. It may have certain underlying causes to look for:

Differential Diagnosis Of Hypertelorism :


 Racial
 Down syndrome
 Cretinism
 Craniofacial dysostosis
 Thalassemia major
 Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
 Turner’s syndrome
 Noonan syndrome.