Are there any treatments for Ectrodactyly?

Reconstructive surgery may be beneficial for individuals with all defects causing functional disability such as ectrodactyly, syndactyly, cleft lip or palate and other associated facial anomalies (e.g., underdeveloped jaw, malformed ears). Dental surgery and corrective devices may be used to treat misshapen teeth.

Can lobster hands be fixed?

The first corrective surgery was performed on the boy’s left hand since he was left-handed. After two hours of work, the doctors were able to fix 80 per cent of the malformation. After recovering, the boy could move his hand like normal.

Is Ectrodactyly genetic?

Ectrodactyly is not only a genetic characteristic in humans, but can also occur in frogs and toads, mice, salamanders, cows, chickens, rabbits, marmosets, cats and dogs, and even West Indian manatees.

Is ectrodactyly a disability?

Intellectual disability-spasticity-ectrodactyly syndrome is a rare intellectual disability syndrome characterized by severe intellectual disability, spastic paraplegia (with wasting of the lower limbs) and distal transverse defects of the limbs (e.g. ectrodactyly, syndactyly, clinodactyly of the hands and/or feet).

How many people have ectrodactyly in the world?

Ectrodactyly, ectodermal dysplasia, and cleft lip/palate syndrome (EEC) syndrome is a rare genetic disorder with an incidence of around 1 in 90,000 in population.

How many cases of ectrodactyly are there?

Ectrodactyly is an autosomal dominant ectodermal dysplasia presenting as bilateral congenital malformed hands and feet [1]. It affects about 1 in 90,000 births with males and females equally as likely to be affected.

How is ectrodactyly diagnosed?

In this report we present two cases of ectrodactyly prenatally diagnosed by ultrasonography during the second trimester of pregnancy. Routine examination of fetal hands and feet during second-trimester ultrasonography should make the detection of hand and foot malformations more frequent.