Case Report

Bardet-Biedl Syndrome : Two cases and review of the literature

10.5455/gulhane.8936

  • Cengiz Zeybek
  • Tarkan Mumcuoğlu
  • Süleyman Kalman
  • Faysal Gök
  • Duygu Övünç Hacıhamdioğlu
  • Erkan Demirkaya

Received Date: 25.06.2011 Accepted Date: 02.01.2012 Gulhane Med J 2013;55(4):321-324

Bardet-Biedl Syndrome (BBS) is an autosomal recessive disorder with cardinal findings like that obesity, rod-cone dystrophy, polydactily, renal anomalies and hypogonadism and assumes “ciliopathy” pathology today and also is one of the genetic obesity syndromes. We presented here two cases that one of them is 26 months old and the other is 16 years old. The first featured with laryngeal web and posterior urethral valve and the second with nephrotic range proteinuria.

Keywords: Bardot-Biedl syndrome, laryngeal web, posterior urethral valve, proteinuria