A child with obesity and polydactyly

Abstract

Abstract:  Bardet Biedle syndrome is a rare genetic disorder related to Laurence moon syndrome. It is characterized by obesity, hypogonadism, polydactyly, renal abnormalities, retinal pigmentation, and other features, some patients has mental retardation and other clinical findings. Situs inversus is very rarely reported as an association of this syndrome, The cause of this syndrome is genetic with multiple genes involved, it is usually inherited as autosomal recessive pattern .There is no any proved treatment for this syndrome apart from dealing with specific problems which might have been arisen. We presented a 6 years old boy patient exhibiting characteristic features of this syndrome with additional rare associated features that make the case unique and discrete. In the  setting of this case, the literature about Bardet Biedl syndrome was reviewed.