| A multiple malformation syndrome with characteristics of congenital diaphragmatic abnormalities, genital defects and cardiac malformations. Less than 15 patients have been reported worldwide. Ambiguous or female external genitalia are present in individuals with 46,XY karyotype. The genital abnormalities are variable and may include a true double vagina or septate vagina, absent uterus, abnormal male gonads in the presence of normal external female genitalia or male pseudohermaphroditism with abnormal internal female genitalia. Complex cyanotic congenital heart defects, (hypoplastic right lungs, anomalous pulmonary venous return and abnormalities of the diaphragm) are frequent. One patient with rhabdomyomatous dysplasia of the lungs has been reported. Mutations in the WT1 gene have been identified in some patients with Meacham syndrome. All patients reported to date died in early childhood. |
