Failure of siblings to thrive beyond 5 years of age

Abstract

We describe a family in which parents had consanguinity, being children of real sisters. They had given birth to five children. In their family, children remained healthy from birth to pre-school age and then started having symptoms around the age of 5 years and two of them succumbed to this illness. Polyglandular autoimmune syndrome Type-1 is a rare sporadic autosomal recessive disease. It is characterized by the existence of two or more endocrinal disorders. Patients may require lifelong hormone replacement therapy for survival.

Keywords

• Autoimmune
• hypoparathyroidism
• moniliasis
• polyglandular
• primary adrenal insufficiency