Failure to thrive

external

• Synonyms

  • Retarded growth
  • Growth retardation
  • Light for gestational age
  • LGA

• Causes

  • Childhood malnutriton
  • Sickle cell anaemia
  • Tetralogy of Fallot
  • Trisomy 22
  • Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome
  • CHARGE syndrome
  • Cornelia de Lange syndrome
  • Copper deficiency
  • Zinc deficiency
  • Glycogen storage disorder type II
  • Russell-Silver syndrome
  • Hereditary tyrosinosis
  • Fanconi syndrome

• Parents

  • Paediatric sign