Their noses tend to turn upward, and their lower jaws are often undersized.
In addition to cleft palate, the 10 infants have unusually small bodies and heads. 'That's when we were like we think we might have stumbled on something really big here.' Six babies from the Nemours analysis in a photo published in an article in Genetics in Medicine Open, by Erin Wadman, et al., 'A novel syndrome associated with prenatal fentanyl exposure.' Elsevier 2023 And I was just thinking about how this patient reminded me so much of a patient I'd seen earlier in the year and then other patients I'd seen,' Wadman said. 'I was sitting there in the appointment, and I was just like this face looks so familiar. The aha moment linking the infants came in August 2022, when Wadman was called upon to consult in the case of a baby who'd been born with birth defects. Erin Wadman, a genetic counselor at Nemours, and her colleagues published their findings recently in Genetics in Medicine Open. Six babies were identified at Nemours Children's Health in Wilmington, Delaware, two in California and one each in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. 'As we see these shared characteristics identified, we may be unroofing a real syndrome.' Cherot hasn't personally cared for any of the babies. Elizabeth Cherot, the president of the March of Dimes.
