Phenotypic variability in children with Bruck syndrome type 2: Clinical cases

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Bruck syndrome is a rare disorder that features osteogenesis imperfecta, combined with severe congenital joint contractures often with pterygia, short stature, severe limb deformities, and progressive scoliosis. Its two forms, Bruck syndrome types 1 and 2, have similar clinical manifestations without osomal recessive inheritance and are caused by pathogenic variants of the nucleotide sequences in the FKBP10 and PLOD2 genes, respectively.

CLINICAL CASES: The article demonstrates phenotypic and radiographic features as well as laboratory values of siblings with Bruck syndrome type 2 (a 10-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl) born to healthy parents in a consanguineous marriage. The boy had congenital flexion contractures of the knee and elbow joints, few fractures, and severe kyphoscoliosis. The girl had no congenital joint contractures but had kyphoscoliosis, more severe osteoporosis, and a history of having more fractures than her younger brother.

DISCUSSION: The cases demonstrated the significant phenotypic intrafamilial variability of Bruck syndrome type 2, caused by a newly identified homozygous variant c.1885A>G (p.Thr629Ala) in PLOD2, which consists of varying degrees of osteoporosis, and the presence and severity of contractures.

CONCLUSIONS: The description of the given clinical observation was made to draw attention to a rare pathology and expand doctors’ knowledge about the variability of clinical manifestations of Bruck syndrome. Genetic diagnostics is necessary for the timely diagnosis of Bruck syndrome, determining the prognosis and developing patient management techniques.

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Svetlana I. Trofimova

H. Turner National Medical Research Center for Children’s Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery

Author for correspondence.
Email: trofimova_sv2012@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2690-7842
SPIN-code: 5833-6770

MD, PhD, Cand. Sci. (Med.)

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Evgeniia A. Kochenova

H. Turner National Medical Research Center for Children’s Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery

Email: jsummer84@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6231-8450
SPIN-code: 4346-5431

MD, PhD, Cand. Sci. (Med.)

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Olga E. Agranovich

H. Turner National Medical Research Center for Children’s Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery

Email: olga_agranovich@yahoo.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6655-4108
SPIN-code: 4393-3694

MD, PhD, Dr. Sci. (Med.)

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Dmitry S. Buklaev

H. Turner National Medical Research Center for Children’s Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery

Email: dima@buklaev.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1868-3703
SPIN-code: 4640-6856

MD, PhD, Cand. Sci. (Med.)

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Elena S. Merkuryeva

Research Centre for Medical Genetics

Email: elena.merkureva@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6902-253X

MD, PhD student, geneticist

Russian Federation, Moscow

Tatiana V. Markova

Research Centre for Medical Genetics

Email: markova@med-gen.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2672-6294
SPIN-code: 4707-9184

MD, PhD, Cand. Sci. (Med.)

Russian Federation, Moscow

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2. Fig. 1. Patient H, eight years old, Bruck syndrome, type 2: a, general view of the patient (does not walk); b, spine radiographs in anteroposterior and lateral projections: 10° frontal deviation of the spinal axis, wedge-shaped vertebrae; c, panoramic radiograph of the lower extremities in anteroposterior projection, varus-antecurvation deformity of the femurs; d, radiograph of the femurs in anteroposterior projection, intramedullary fixation with a telescopic rod

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3. Fig. 2. Patient H, 13 years old, Bruck syndrome, type 2: a, general view of the patient; b, anteroposterior and lateral radiographs of the spine: 40° right scoliotic deformity, 33° kyphosis, platyspondylia, and sacrococcygeal changes

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4. Fig. 3. Patient I, 4 years old, Bruck syndrome, type 2: a, general view of the patient; b, spine radiographs in anteroposterior and lateral projections: 45° kyphosis, decreased height, and wedge-shaped vertebrae; c, panoramic radiographs of the lower extremities in anteroposterior and lateral projections: varus-antecurvation deformity of the femur bones

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5. Fig. 4. Patient I, 10 years old, Bruck syndrome type 2: a, general view of the patient; b, anteroposterior and lateral projection radiographs of the spine: local pathologic kyphosis in the thoracic region, 45° with decreased height and wedge-shaped vertebral bodies, hyperlordosis in the lumbar region, and 26° left-sided scoliotic arch in the thoracolumbar region; c, panoramic radiograph of the lower extremities in the anteroposterior projection: intramedullary fixation of the femurs with telescopic rods

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