Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Q: My newborn granddaughter, who we have not yet met, was diagnosed with velocardiofacial syndrome. What is this? What can we ...

Just when you least expect it, someone’s found a new syndrome in children. Well actually it was first discovered about 25 years ago but many doctors - and certainly parents - are still to hear about ...

DiGeorge syndrome (DGS; also known as Velo-cardio-facial syndrome) is associated with hemizygous deletion of a region of human chromosome 22q11, causing a range of abnormalities including ...

Velo-cardio-facial syndrome (VCFS), also known as DiGeorge syndrome or 22q11.21 deletion syndrome, has a prevalence in the United States of approximately 1:2,000. Patients affected by this syndrome ...

Q: My newborn granddaughter, who we have not yet met, was diagnosed with velocardiofacial syndrome. What is this? What can we expect? A: A medical syndrome is a group of symptoms/conditions that may ...